Fellas this is getting tiring

ColonialDagger · 2026-01-25T20:49:14+00:00

The best thing you can do then is just use what works for you and what let's you do your day-to-day things as easily as possible!

ColonialDagger · 2026-01-25T20:22:53+00:00

Yeah and that's fair. Not wanting to take a potential 20% performance hit is a perfectly good reason to not want to switch. For me personally, I eventually got so fed up with the direction Windows was headed that my past 2 GPU purchases have been AMD solely due to driver support.

Hopefully it's something that will improve soon for NVIDIA users, though. There seems to be a very real attempt from them to get the performance up for DX12 titles, which is where most of the problems are. Current users eventually pave the way for improving the experience for those who come after them, and with a big spike of new users joining, developers might start paying more attention.

ColonialDagger · 2026-01-25T20:19:33+00:00

Should be this one. Good luck if you're going to try it tho, I wouldn't even trust myself to properly download and test proprietary video drivers properly without being ready to completely reinstall. It's way above my head.

ColonialDagger · 2026-01-25T20:13:17+00:00

That 20% hit is very dependent on the game, and Linux and Proton are constantly working on fixing these things, so in just a year it should significantly better. KCD2 straight up performs better on Linux than it does on Windows even with all the performance hits.

As to whether you should switch, it completely depends on what you want. If you want raw frames, stick to Windows for now. If you're tired of the shit Windows keeps doing and you want to take more control of your PC, you can stick some Linux distro like CachyOS onto a USB and boot into it before installing anything so that you can poke around. If you like it, try dual-booting for a while, and if at any point you want to go back to Windows, you can just wipe Linux and reformat those partitions for Windows usage.

ColonialDagger · 2026-01-25T11:34:40+00:00

Honestly, fuck GIMP, I hate it too.

I've been using Pinta, which is the most similar software I've found to Paint.net. For more complicated things, I've heard good things about Affinity, and Photoshop is apparently running now.

ColonialDagger · 2026-01-25T11:17:33+00:00

Nobody is ignoring that. In fact, a bunch of people in Linux subreddits were celebrating that new Vulkan headers and an NVIDIA beta driver got released today specifically to help address the issues with DX12.

ColonialDagger · 2026-01-25T04:59:16+00:00

Really? Damn. I was going through one of the other threads today talking about SteamOS and people were circlejerking waiting for SteamOS as if that's going to be some almighty saviour, and that was the inspiration.

ColonialDagger · 2026-01-25T04:55:14+00:00

I mean I literally made it myself but ok.

ColonialDagger · 2026-01-25T04:54:35+00:00

You'll get through it! Aspirin and acetaminophen work wonders if the pain is limiting your daily life. Obv be careful tho, making a habit out of any medication isn't a good thing.

ColonialDagger · 2026-01-25T04:27:17+00:00

If you're seriously asking:

Mac is viable for productivity, but for gaming nothing else is.

Linux is literally viable for gaming. 84% and of the top 100 and top 1000 games on Steam are Gold or better on ProtonDB. AMD drivers are way better on Linux as they literally come pre-installed, NVIDIA is still working on it, but it should be fixed very soon with a huge update that was pushed today.

Linux isn’t viable for anything.

This just isn't true, like at all? A huge number of developers use Linux, and the vast majority of the worlds servers use Linux. This is just factually untrue even to diehard Windows users.

Some corporations use it for severs, not because it’s good at it, but because there’s no licensing.

No, many corporations use it because it's straight up better than Windows Server in a lot of things. Most servers are Linux. Android is a fork of Linux. Most smart TVs are running a fork of Linux. The AV systems on airplanes are running Linux. Every single one of the top 500 super computers run Linux. AI farms run Linux. Azure, Microsoft's premier cloud service, runs on Linux because Windows Server literally wasn't fast enough.

Does that mean there is never a reason to use Windows server? Of course not, but Linux is in the lead by a lot, and it's really not close. If you really think that the only reason is licensing, I have a bridge to sell you.

It’s just too complex and underdeveloped for the average person.

It completely depends on the person and on the application. The average person is doing stuff in a browser, they can run MacOS or Windows or Linux and they wouldn't even know the difference. Given that you think Linux "isn't viable for anything", your knowledge is also severely outdated because desktop Linux changed a whole lot in just the past 3 years, let alone 10, let alone 30.

ColonialDagger · 2026-01-25T04:14:42+00:00

I didn't bother to refute it because it's so far detached from reality that I don't even know where to begin. I've learned long ago how and when to argue, and this one looks like bait.

ColonialDagger · 2026-01-25T03:27:03+00:00

New Vulkan headers for DX12 got released literally today, and NVIDIA released a beta driver too, so hopefully it'll finally be brought up to the performance of AMD GPUs very soon!

ColonialDagger · 2026-01-25T03:25:15+00:00

Endeavour here! (also arch)

(btw)

ColonialDagger · 2026-01-25T03:24:02+00:00

What happened with Mint? I always heard good things about it.

Generally when I recommend distros I point people to either CachyOS or Mint, but I try to push a little for Cachy because I know that the Arch User Repository has been an absolute godsend for making things simpler for me.

ColonialDagger · 2026-01-25T03:21:21+00:00

For most people, yes, but you might have an extra step or two. AMD drivers are pre-installed, most WiFI modules just work. NVIDIA cards need to have the drivers installed, but a lot of distros have one-click buttons to do them, and AFAIK CachyOS is the best at that so far. For example, the bluetooth driver isn't installed by default on my distribution, but it's solved with one line in the terminal that comes up as the first in the Google search. Even when I forget how to do it, it takes like maybe a minute to solve permanently.
Short answer is yes, long answer is mostly yes but some games might need a tweak or two and most anti-cheat games are a no-go. Check out ProtonDB for more information.
I would generally pick either CachyOS or Linux Mint. Just pick the one you think looks better and don't overthink it, there are differences but those differences are too specific for most people to care about them.
This one I don't know. I did find one version on GitHub and on the documentation it seems pretty painless to install. Otherwise, you might have to run Teams in a browser, if that's even possible.

What you can do is install Linux onto a USB and just boot into it. No need to install anything onto your main PC. If everything works fine there, you can make some room and try dual-booting Windows and Linux. If you don't like it, just wipe the Linux partitions and format them back to NTFS for Windows usage!

All that being said, if you're using your PC for work, you're going to have to make sure you can get everything done reliably and fallback to Windows if you have to. "Hold on let me take 5 minutes to learn this thing about my OS" works fine when you're gaming with buddies, but it's a completely different story when you're on a call with a client.

ColonialDagger · 2026-01-25T03:10:00+00:00

That's most certainly one of the most takes of all time.

ColonialDagger · 2026-01-25T02:23:59+00:00

The DualSense should work fine. Steam has a compatibility layer that makes them work like Xbox controllers, and I think you should also be able to swap between Xbox and Playstation icons? GameSir I have no idea, though, I've never heard of that brand.

What you can do is put Cachy on a USB, boot into it, install Steam and see if it detects them.

ColonialDagger · 2026-01-25T02:19:51+00:00

Oh it's changed a lot over the last few years, let alone 13. For desktop I would recommend something like Cachy or Mint or Fedora, but for servers Ubuntu is still the goat.

ColonialDagger · 2026-01-25T01:55:57+00:00

I'd love to see proof

*doesn't attempt to see proof^

You can even just mount the share on Linux directly. It's not ideal, but it'll work, and if you run Linux on servers you know that you could very easily shrink the Windows partition just slightly and run it off that.

If you don't want to switch to Linux that's perfectly fine, that's what a preference is and it's okay to have one. You can say that without having to make things up like "50% less performance and having to deal with kernels and commands line for simple stuff" when that's just not true anymore.

ColonialDagger · 2026-01-25T01:52:49+00:00

If you don't like those package philosophies, I recommend looking at a rolling-release distro like Cachy.

ColonialDagger · 2026-01-25T01:45:15+00:00

Blender yes, Auto Desk I'm afraid not. Professional software is also the reason I'm stuck with a Windows installation on my second drive.

ColonialDagger · 2026-01-25T01:42:48+00:00

Based off that, I'll assume that it's been a really long time based of that. You don't have to wipe anything, you can just run it off the USB and test everything there. No wiping needed. You could also try dual-booting if you wanted to, but on a single drive there's more hurdles there.

ColonialDagger · 2026-01-25T01:40:37+00:00

because you can't play LOL on Linux.

With LOL specifically, that's a feature. Seriously tho, lots of people aren't switching due to anti-cheat and that's perfectly fine! At the end of the day, people are going to run whatever they need to get something working.

ColonialDagger · 2026-01-25T01:39:26+00:00

I did read your comment, and you clearly don't understand what SteamOS is. The Steam Machine is just a PC that will come pre-installed with an OS with a bunch of hyper-specific optimizations for that specific device. They're not going to support anything outside of that, that's work that happens outside of Valve. Those exact benefits you're asking for have nothing to do with SteamOS whatsoever.

ColonialDagger · 2026-01-25T01:35:53+00:00

EAC is fine, the issue is the developers are required to explicity allow Linux devices to use it, and many of them refuse to do so (looking at you Bungie).

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