Alright you nerds, I made the jump to Linux.
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Ha ha! Fair point. I'll be mindful of that the next time I can't find support for an edge-case issue.
Thanks bud, saving some links for reference. I've heard about proton-ge, and from some quick high-level reading, it appears to be some kind of fork of steam's proton, but has some other fixes that I believe are community oriented or address things that Steam cannot. I'm gonna doing some reading into that to understand more about it and see how it can help me in other games.
The others are helpful! I remember MangoHud from Steam Deck, but only at a surface level. Didn't even think about putting that onto my new system as I've just been using System Profiler to see some metrics when I play! I come from the MSI Afterburner crowd, so I'm hoping MangoHud will meet my performance monitoring needs!
Has anyone seen an ocarina dropped by a princess anywhere? It’s the magical kind that resets time and heals persons.
Thank you for this! I jotted down your launch options along with what some of the other persons here were posting. Hoping of course NetEase can get this addressed in a coming update so we don't have to use this workaround.
Congrats on the cutover! I don't play Fortnite any more but my spouse wants to give it a go some time. If I play with them, I may have to install a Windows drive as a secondary device after all. Totally forgot about this game because I don't think I currently play any games that can't work on Linux.
Now that is really cool! I'll check that out, too! And now we're both down rabbit holes ha ha
New build looks great and that's gonna last you a long time!
I have a Jellyfin server on-prem only, and currently I remote into it via Remmina. I tried setting up Samba between the two PCs but I couldn't get it to work as expected due to some permissions issues. I'll do further troubleshooting later on. But for now what worked with me was setting up Warpinator, and then I could send files easily that way. Ideally, as others have been mentioning, standing up either a NAS or some other local server to facilitate file transfer will be ideal because I pop USB drives to move media for now. Back then on Remote Desktop, Windows file share worked great but it's no longer in the cards for me.
Glad you're having fun with it all!
This is helpful, I will do some research into these. So because I'm on default Linux Mint, I believe my desktop is Gnome (especially considering my screenshot which also says Gnome). KDE, I only recognise from my Steam Deck - at least I hope that's KDE lol.
I'll learn these terms one day. I feel ignorant, but I'm hungry to learn. The exciting part about cutting over is that it reminded me when I was learning about computers as a kid, and moving around connectors on PATA drives as a pre-teen. :) So I'm enthused to try a lot of stuff! Thanks dude
To each their own my friend! I thought of riding out Win 10 and installing Linux Mint on an old computer, such as my really old Macbook Pro from 2012. But for my use case, forcing myself to use it and work through hurdles seemed to be best because after a long work day I was afraid I wouldn't spend time trying out Linux.
Thankfully, I've had basically 99% perfection while using Linux Mint. The 1% were the little unique problems that I'm still trying to solve, such as getting OpenRGB to work and detect my devices. Inability for CoolerControl to control my case fans, no way to control my AMD GPU fans, etc. I'll invest time into figuring these out, but for now, all my games work and I just ignore the RGB I can't control via software.
Yep! So the unfortunate thing is that PS VR2 requires some PSVR app on Steam, and it's only working for Windows. Some Linux people have been trying it out with mixed results and instability, last I checked.
Considering my spouse and I want to use it for VR gaming, I want it to work exceptional 100% time without troubleshooting. And for now, that answer is Windows 10. We turn it on and it works flawlessly. If the platform matures and Linux gets supported, I'll switch our home theater PC to Linux because that's the only thing holding it back.
Definitely will be taking advantage of those two softwares. I tried dabbling with Syncthing when I got my Steam Deck, because I wanted the save files for my... er, Linux ISOs, to sync with my Windows PC. I couldn't get it to reliably work (user error probably). So this time I'll try again and hopefully it will be much better!
And with these specs, this server will be so powerful that it will actually serve other servers. Even servers that don't exist yet. It'll be so fast that persons will be like "whoa, this is too fast, please slow it down!"
Haven't tried it, but I'm downloading it now so I can give it a go next time!
That's what I like the most about it is that it's mostly familiar. I think it's an excellent OS to bridge users leaving Windows.
Years ago I experimented by dual booting pop_OS! and also Ubuntu. But they always ran so poorly for me, despite having great hardware at the time (i7-7700k and GTX 1080). It was just super frustrating so I abandoned it.
Last year as part of my preparation and research to get off Windows, I rolled VMs of Zorin OS and Linux Mint. Zorin was good overall, but Linux Mint just felt better to me. There's so much information available online for Mint, and over time as I get comfortable with the Linux ecosystem, I probably won't be using internet search terms like "install error XYZ someprogramhere on Linux Mint". 😀
Good to know! Somewhere in this thread I mentioned that I heard AMD typically works better, so it gave me an excuse to also upgrade my video card and pick up an RX 7900 XTX. Lesson learned though! But I can't complain too much as I got a big uplift along with a massive improvement in VRAM - 10 GB to 24 GB.
I installed my RTX 3080 into my home theater PC where my spouse and I will game on from time to time when we want a couch TV game on PC. We recently set up PS VR2 on that PC, and with the 3080, the games run so great.
Thank you! I only wish I discovered all this back when I was a teenager and had much more free time! I could have been a wizard like all these other nerds posting here!
Ah well, I'm never late or early, as I understand the lore. Picard or Dumbledore said that, it's true.
Holy crap I had no idea about this! Thank you so much! I remember as I was prepping my switch last year, I was browisng through the MakeMKV forums and reading all about the methods people were employing to get it on Linux. Having it in a Flatpak just makes it all so much easier. I'll definitely get this set up today!
Thank you! Now I'm ready to kill the Batman and torrent more Linux ISOs. It will make a fine piece to my collection
Thank you for the recommendations! I'm trying out Clementine as I heard about it and heard good things. It's mostly great, but coming from iTunes for Windows I have some more learning to do. Will definitely check out Lollypop as I'm not committed to Clementine yet (mostly because I haven't finished getting my library all set up on my PC yet).
MusicBrainz I do use with my Jellyfin server - although, that Jellyfin server is running on a different Windows 10 PC and NOT in docker lol. I have a lot to learn still
Yep, I definitely chose hard mode. I wanted to minimise the chance of me giving up and reverting to Windows. By eliminating it entirely, I've made it much more difficult for myself as I'm forcing myself to manage, learn, and try to get things working in Linux.
At some point, perhaps months down the road, where I find that I'm fully comfortable, then I'll most likely add a secondary drive with Windows on it for those edge-cases that I can't get working on Linux.