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[BeardSpike]

I wish way more people knew this when they are concerned over performance.

Yup. Honestly if you're on let's say RTX 5070TI and above or 5090 like Poppinfresh and you take a 10% performance hit for smoother framegrafs and you download shaders for broken ports and you have like a generally better gaming experience it worth to dual boot and I doubt you would even notice that...

Hell if I am hitting at least 90 fps on my Mini LED I am having a blast.

Some games run better than on Windows though, I have like 10-15 more FPS in Atomfall and that helps me hit my 90 target rather well since this game doesn't have any AA and I basically have to run it 1440p x 170-200% resolution for jaggies to not burn me in the eyes.

Edit: Poppinfresh I am thinking about your bt issue, did you test any other kernels besides stock one on Cachy?

You can even download stock Arch Kernel from Cachy Kernel Manager, the one without their improvements.

Regressions happen on some kernels. I generally had one bad Kernel this year and it was giving me issues on my AsRock motherboard. But I always keep a bunch of them if I have an issue, I just hop on to the next one.

They patch that rather quickly 2 to 3 days tops unlike Windows.

Maybe it is worth to hop on to their discord if you like CachyOS. There is help section there and they can let you know if there was indeed an regression.

Maybe they even don't know about your issues though. It's tough to know if any of devs have similar motherboard .

That's what I did with my B650M Pro RS.

I basically hopped onto their discord, said what issues I had and that it happened on RC Kernel and not on stock. They confirmed regression, it was patched in two days.

I also vaguely remember CachyOS updated a bunch of firmware AMD Microcode, Nvidia, Mediatek like somewhere around October. Maybe the issue lies there.

 

[Kenneth Haight]

Windows peaked with Windows 8.

 

[FF:Enhanced_Reality]

I don't use any Microsoft service now. I've moved to Linux, my email isn't provided by them, I don't use office products, anything. Windows is awful as is Microsoft.

 

[Poppinfresh]

Yup. Honestly if you're on let's say RTX 5070TI and above or 5090 like Poppinfresh and you take a 10% performance hit for smoother framegrafs and you download shaders for broken ports and you have like a generally better gaming experience it worth to dual boot and I doubt you would even notice that...

Hell if I am hitting at least 90 fps on my Mini LED I am having a blast.

Some games run better than on Windows though, I have like 10-15 more FPS in Atomfall and that helps me hit my 90 target rather well since this game doesn't have any AA and I basically have to run it 1440p x 170-200% resolution for jaggies to not burn me in the eyes.

Edit: Poppinfresh I am thinking about your bt issue, did you test any other kernels besides stock one on Cachy?

You can even download stock Arch Kernel from Cachy Kernel Manager, the one without their improvements.

Regressions happen on some kernels. I generally had one bad Kernel this year and it was giving me issues on my AsRock motherboard. But I always keep a bunch of them if I have an issue, I just hop on to the next one.

They patch that rather quickly 2 to 3 days tops unlike Windows.

Maybe it is worth to hop on to their discord if you like CachyOS. There is help section there and they can let you know if there was indeed an regression.

Maybe they even don't know about your issues though. It's tough to know if any of devs have similar motherboard .

That's what I did with my B650M Pro RS.

I basically hopped onto their discord, said what issues I had and that it happened on RC Kernel and not on stock. They confirmed regression, it was patched in two days.

I also vaguely remember CachyOS updated a bunch of firmware AMD Microcode, Nvidia, Mediatek like somewhere around October. Maybe the issue lies there.

I actually ended up getting things to work, sort of.

Turns out that Bluetooth will work only if I start the PC from a completely powered down and unplugged state (yes, it has to be unplugged). If I do that I'm able to turn on Bluetooth and select Bluetooth devices.

My 2.4GHz 8bitdo controller works great, so I ordered a 2.4GHz mechanical keyboard today so I won't have to deal with Bluetooth anymore.

Now I'm trying to solve the following:

1) If I put the PC into sleep mode I get get no display signal on wake. Nothing. I've even tried unplugging the HDMI cable.

2) HDR in games is hit or miss, but I expected that. Seems to work fine in Arc Raiders, but I can't select it at all in Ninja Gaiden 4.

 

[BeardSpike]

1) If I put the PC into sleep mode I get get no display signal on wake. Nothing. I've even tried unplugging the HDMI cable.

I've been having that one also. And reading about it - didn't happen like 2 months ago. Might be an Kernel issue from what I am reading they advise to roll back.

2) HDR in games is hit or miss, but I expected that. Seems to work fine in Arc Raiders, but I can't select it at all in Ninja Gaiden 4.

Do you use Steam? Right click on Ninja Gaiden 4 try these launch parameters:

PROTON_ENABLE_WAYLAND=1 PROTON_ENABLE_HDR=1 %command%

You have to have installed ProtonPlus and download Proton-GE and Proton-EM and select either one of them under compatibly in Steam Play for these commands to work

You may need to restart Steam if you download Proton with ProtonPlus for Steam and it is running in the background.

 

[BeardSpike]

My 2.4GHz 8bitdo controller works great, so I ordered a 2.4GHz mechanical keyboard today so I won't have to deal with Bluetooth anymore.

If you will have issues with 8BitDo controllers in the future PM me. I'm gonna share my udev rules for them.

But I mostly game on GameSir and GuliKit.

GuliKit HyperLink 2 BT adapter works under Linux flawlessly FYI and it's doing 750Hz polling rate over it, puts to shame some of 8BitDo 2,4Ghz controllers.

Edit: My Epomaker CIDOO V75 Pro works really good on Linux FYI. Really solid keyboard btw 2kg/4,5 pounds monster. Thicc keycaps, I'm loving it so far.

 

[Broad Spectrum]

Tried CachyOS this morning. It installed great, but I never could get Bluetooth working. It was off by default, I turned it on via the slider but it never turned "on."

Tried googling to find the answer to the issue, but never could find an answer, or at least one that I could understand.

Installed Bazzite after that and everything just worked out of the box, including Bluetooth.

I wouldn't mind using Catchy since it seems to be the hot thing right now but Bluetooth has to work and I can't spend hours trying to troubleshoot the problem.

Bazzite is my gaming distro of choice too as I don't want to tinker around too much with stuff. I just want to game. I ran CachyOS for a few months only to have a software update brick my system. I've run Bazzite for much longer and never had issues. The stability of Bazzite is its best feature, though the whole immutable distro thing can make installing software that's not available via flatpak annoying.

 

[BeardSpike]

Bazzite is my gaming distro of choice too as I don't want to tinker around too much with stuff. I just want to game. I ran CachyOS for a few months only to have a software update brick my system. I've run Bazzite for much long and never had issues. The stability of Bazzite is its best feature, though the whole immutable distro thing can make installing software that's not available via flatpak annoying.

That's why I TimeShift a lot, lmao. But I only had to roll back once because I decided to try newest GNOME while it was at beta and it did brick my system. Rolled back really nicely from LiveISO though. Not long after that I got newest GNOME through official CachyOS repos so... Yeah. I didn't have to bother at all.

Bazzite is stable because it is based on Fedora Atomic. But I kinda wanna have the latest updates so I stick with Arch and Bazzite is basically a bunch of scripts here and there and as you have said some installs could be annoying so I didn't even try it.

AerynOS could be big since it's also an Atomic distro and it looks more customizable than Bazzite. I will try it once it is at least in Beta though. I'm not bothering with it now since it's in Alpha stage.

 

[Broad Spectrum]

That's why I TimeShift a lot, lmao. But I only had to roll back once because I decided to try newest GNOME while it was at beta and it did brick my system. Rolled back really nicely from LiveISO though. Not long after that I got newest GNOME through official CachyOS repos so... Yeah. I didn't have to bother at all.

Bazzite is stable because it is based on Fedora Atomic. But I kinda wanna have the latest updates so I stick with Arch and Bazzite is basically a bunch of scripts here and there and as you have said some installs could be annoying so I didn't even try it.

AerynOS could be big since it's also an Atomic distro and it looks more customizable than Bazzite. I will try it once it is at least in Beta though. I'm not bothering with it now since it's in Alpha stage.

I've learned that I like to be near the cutting edge but not actually on it to the point where I'm experiencing bugs and odd behaviour. Bazzite is close enough for me without being near hopelessly out of date like Ubutunu or Mint.

 

[Durin]

The only distro you could test now I think is PikaOS, if it's not working just stick to Bazzite.

It's pretty fresh distro but has been climbing on distro list pretty fast. Debian based with Kernel improvements aimed towards gaming.

You can also look forward in December for a full release of Pop!_OS on newest Iced-Rust DE Cosmic. System76 always had and separate ISOs for Nvidia gaming, it will be their first major release since like forever since they decided to write their own DE.

And I think I saw they plan to be out of beta in December.

I also watch closely how AerynOS is shaping up but that distro is in Alpha currently.

Edit: Summoning Durin I think he uses PikaOS but I forgot if he uses AMD card or Nvidia.

Nobara had a bunch of weird screen artifacts with NVIDIA for me.

The only thing I can figure out with the Bluetooth issue is that maybe catchy doesn't like my Mediatek adapter that is on my motherboard

Poppinfresh I don't really have much experience with Nobara (other than I'm grateful for GE-Proton), but I have an nvidia card (RTX 4080) using PikaOS. I haven't had any artifacting issues, and what I've seen it gets comparable performance to Nobara, along with going back and forth with CachyOS.

General Niceties
You do get pretty nice compatability with deb packages, a built-in GUI Update Manager with notifications for doing both flatpaks and system apt packages with a single button press, a Device Manager to update any device drivers like picking among stable or beta Nvidia drivers, and similar to Bazzite a Welcome gui app to give you options of useful stuff to install. Steam and Heroic Games Launcher are also pre-installed core system packages so you don't get the headaches of flatpaks, along with I believe Lutris too, and has other pre-installed gaming centric stuff.

Nvidia-specific improvements
There is also some useful stuff for just Nvidia specifically on PikaOS, like their DLSS Switcher script that automates forcing a game to use the latest DLSS 4 transformer mode, where all you have to do is copy/paste a short code into the Steam launch options field found in any game's properties window in Steam. I haven't test this yet either, but the last ISO they posted today added support for Nvidia EGL Wayland2 that's supposed to improve Nvidia desktop performance further, but it was already good for me. Also, their Falcond auto-gamemode automatically makes tweaks to extract more CPU performance in games similar to things CachyOS, Nobara and Bazzite likely do, but too technical for me, and seems to have stuff specific for AMD CPUs that have that 3d v-cache stuff.

Installation Stuff & Guides
Here's their ISO Download page & Installation Guide. Also, here is their General Guide/CommonFixes stuff, which includes help with installing with secureboot if you dual-boot with Win11, and imo easier than Bazzite's implementation. I'm personally using Gnome right now, which if you do the Welcome app even includes GUI presets, that will auto-install extensions like DashtoPanel & Arc Menu (Windows-like taskbar + start menu) DashtoDock (MacOS-like taskbar), etc.

Hope this helps if you're interested, and they have a pretty active Discord as well

 

[BeardSpike]

B Broad Spectrum Durin Poppinfresh Crayon

Today was both good and bad day for me.

But... I managed to rescue my Windows boot EFI partition because of shenanigans and I did had to reinstall Cachy because of it. I also learned that I can actually config it fairly quickly now.

So that was the bad part of the day.

Now on to the good parts.

It's nice that I kept my games on a separate SSD drive so Steam just imported them, same with Heroic. Good to know that works. It just has to be formatted in ext4 not NTFS for this to work on Linux.

Anyways I decided to boot up for shit and giggles when I was at Windows 11 Tormented Souls 2 which I bought recently through gg.deals on some fairly nice promo through official shops.

And I think I am at Mall level and I haven't booted it up on Windows at all just did game on Cachy.

To my surprise my RX 9070XT hit 350W of power draw, lmao. And I was like what how is that possible. It can't be.

Same settings, CachyOS newest RC Kernel and mesa-git 26.0.0 development build and same -30mV undervolt and... I have like 180 to 240W power draw on my card on the same level. Lmao.

It did confirm to me that sometimes performance gains on Linux are like woah.

This blew my mind more than Atomfall gains on Linux honestly.

 

[Broad Spectrum]

B Broad Spectrum Durin Poppinfresh Crayon

Today was both good and bad day for me.

But... I managed to rescue my Windows boot EFI partition because of shenanigans and I did had to reinstall Cachy because of it. I also learned that I can actually config it fairly quickly now.

So that was the bad part of the day.

Now on to the good parts.

It's nice that I kept my games on a separate SSD drive so Steam just imported them, same with Heroic. Good to know that works. It just has to be formatted in ext4 not NTFS for this to work on Linux.

Anyways I decided to boot up for shit and giggles when I was at Windows 11 Tormented Souls 2 which I bought recently through gg.deals on some fairly nice promo through official shops.

And I think I am at Mall level and I haven't booted it up on Windows at all just did game on Cachy.

To my surprise my RX 9070XT hit 350W of power draw, lmao. And I was like what how is that possible. It can't be.

Same settings, CachyOS newest RC Kernel and mesa-git 26.0.0 development build and same -30mV undervolt and... I have like 180 to 240W power draw on my card on the same level. Lmao.

It did confirm to me that sometimes performance gains on Linux are like woah.

This blew my mind more than Atomfall gains on Linux honestly.

Dunno if you've tried this already but there's a power management setting in the bottom right corner of the dock. It's sometimes behind the hat looking: /\ Status and Notifications button.

 

[BeardSpike]

Dunno if you've tried this already but there's a power management setting in the bottom right corner of the dock. It's sometimes behind the hat looking: /\ Status and Notifications button.

Same FPS cap on both systems and same power managment setting aka performance.

EDIT: I also finally managed to use both Reshade and Manhohud.

I just installed it through Wine and pointed to my drive which is in /mnt mounted by Label, then Steam/apps/common

WINEDLLOVERRIDES="d3dcompiler_47=n;dxgi=n,b" mangohud %command%

Added these launch parameters in Signalis because I wanted more CRT shaders than the stock one provided by game.

Works like a charm.

I've been using https://search.brave.com a lot lately, its AI search functions summaries rather nicely all the commands I may want to try on Linux or launch parameters and I can copy them with one click.

 

[Durin]

I've been using https://search.brave.com a lot lately, its AI search functions summaries rather nicely all the commands I may want to try on Linux or launch parameters and I can copy them with one click.

Yep, Brave's AI definitely helped me when I was learning launch parameters, and could just copy/paste stuff instead of having to read through whole threads for an answer.

If you haven't tried it, I also recommend whenever you might need to use the command line in Linux, to try out the Warp terminal.

It will remember previous commands you made, and offer to auto-complete them as you type. If you want to "cd" into a directory, after you type it, it will display a dropdown of all the folders inside where you currently are, or auto-complete options as you start to type. Just helps with suggestions to do stuff faster, or help you remember in case you forget the syntax.

 

[dacuk]

No lies detected.

 

[Wolzard]

The problem was on Ubisoft's side and was solved with game patches, not Windows updates.

Microsoft itself admitted the problem with the update.

Microsoft Confirms Windows 11 Update Kills Star Wars Outlaws, Assassin's Creed Valhalla, and Other Ubisoft Games - IGN

Microsoft has confirmed that Windows 11 version 24H2 is accidentally killing Ubisoft games such as Star Wars Outlaws, Assassin's Creed Valhalla, and more.

www.ign.com

 

[RetroGamingUK]

Windows peaked with Windows 8.

Ah Windows 8

I bought my first MacBook shortly after trying the beta.

 

[Critical Hit]

Microsoft itself admitted the problem with the update.

They admitted that Ubisoft's games had problems after the update. These problems were present in the Insiders build a year before the update - Ubisoft did nothing to avoid them before 24H2 release. I had a problem with the Origins at that time - I tried an old pirated version and it played without any problems, but I needed achievements, so I had to install Windows 10 as a second OS.

 

[Seomel]

The only thing that "bothers" me on windows on my rigs is a message popping up now and then saying "couldn't find the app to start ms game bar" (as i've unbloated windows using win util and deleted all unnecessary apps and services, including the game bar, copilot, recall, adobe, background apps etc].

I can't figure out how to stop the message from appearing, but it doesn't impact anything, and dissapears on its own.

Shoild have just disabled it and hidden notifications. Also if you use Tiny11, you wont have any of these issues and its more barebone than what you can debloat youtself

 

[draliko]

5070ti here, download and installed cachy on a second nvme, gotta try some games in the weekend and see of things goes, sincerely curious how it progressed.

 

[Soren01]

5070ti here, download and installed cachy on a second nvme, gotta try some games in the weekend and see of things goes, sincerely curious how it progressed.

Share the experience

 

[Poppinfresh]

Share the experience

I have a 5090, but I'll share my experience.

I was not a fan of Linux gaming and really didn't see the point of not using Windows, but I decided to install CachyOS and try it out because of this thread.

Minus a few non-gaming-related Linux hiccups, most of which were user error, it's been great so far.

Gaming-wise, everything I've played has run really well - probably just as well as Windows. The only gaming-related issue I have is not being able to use my flask macro for Path of Exile, because it requires AutoHotKey, which isn't available on Linux (that I know of). Arc Raiders worked well, as did Wuchang, PoE, and a bunch of other games that I tested.

The only other issue I'm having is related to sleep mode - I get no video signal if I return from a long sleep, but that's a known problem and it seems like it's being worked on. Bluetooth is a bit wonky too - it works, but in order to get it to work, you have to boot from a completely powered-off state, including unplugging the PC beforehand. Again, it's a known issue and only impacts a small portion of motherboards, so you may not have that problem. My workaround was to start using a 2.4Ghz keyboard instead of a Bluetooth one.

Bottom Line: I'll probably stick with it until I run into a game that I really want to play that just won't work at all.

 

[pudel]

The only gaming-related issue I have is not being able to use my flask macro for Path of Exile, because it requires AutoHotKey, which isn't available on Linux (that I know of). Arc Raiders worked well, as did Wuchang, PoE, and a bunch of other games that I tested.

I know this problem. I recently discovered "input-remapper". Maybe that helps with yr flask macro too. I am quite satisfied with it sofar.

 

[Poppinfresh]

I know this problem. I recently discovered "input-remapper". Maybe that helps with yr flask macro too. I am quite satisfied with it sofar.

That combined with using Gemini to write the code just solved my problem.

 

[pudel]

That combined with using Gemini to write the code just solved my problem.

Thx for the gold, Sir!

But why did you had to write even code? Could you not just create a macro and map it to a key? I had only used it sofar for remapping simple keys, no macros...thats why i am asking.

 

[Poppinfresh]

But why did you had to write even code? Could you not just create a macro and map it to a key? I had only used it sofar for remapping simple keys, no macros...thats why i am asking.

I just wanted the quickest solution possible so I pointed Gemini to the docs and asked it to create a Flask Macro, waiting 100 ms between each button press.

I have it mapped to one of the extra buttons on my mouse.

 

[GHG]

I just wanted the quickest solution possible so I pointed Gemini to the docs and asked it to create a Flask Macro, waiting 100 ms between each button press.

I have it mapped to one of the extra buttons on my mouse.

Would steam input not work for this?

Genuinely asking because I know it works a treat for setting up controller macros but never tried with kb/m because I haven't had the need to yet.

 

[Poppinfresh]

Would steam input not work for this?

Genuinely asking because I know it works a treat for setting up controller macros but never tried with kb/m because I haven't had the need to yet.

Good question, I'm not really sure.

I always used AutoHotKey on Windows. Never thought about Steam input

 

[pudel]

Would steam input not work for this?

Genuinely asking because I know it works a treat for setting up controller macros but never tried with kb/m because I haven't had the need to yet.

What is steam input? This little tool above just lets you remap every key (or macro) to every other device you have....and whats more important it comes with a nice little GUI for "windows dummies" like me. But if there are other ways to achieve that...I wouldnt mind to read about it.

 

[GHG]

What is steam input? This little tool above just lets you remap every key (or macro) to every other device you have....and whats more important it comes with a nice little GUI for "windows dummies" like me. But if there are other ways to achieve that...I wouldnt mind to read about it.

Allows you to get controllers mapped for any game using any controller. You access it via the Steam overlay by clicking the controller icon:

As an example I have it set up as follows for total war warhammer 3 with the Steam controller:

If you go to edit layout there are a whole host of customisable options in there, covers everything from macros, hotkeys, contextual behaviours, etc.

I've not found a single thing that I haven't been able to do with it when using controllers, but don't know if it affords the same level of flexibility for keyboard and mouse users.

 

[pudel]

Allows you to get controllers mapped for any game using any controller. You access it via the Steam overlay by clicking the controller icon:
As an example I have it set up as follows for total war warhammer 3 with the Steam controller:

If you go to edit layout there are a whole host of customisable options in there, covers everything from macros, hotkeys, contextual behaviours, etc.

I've not found a single thing that I haven't been able to do with it when using controllers, but don't know if it affords the same level of flexibility for keyboard and mouse users.

Noice! Didnt know this is existing. But yeah....seems to be only controller related unfortunately. But good to know anyway.

 

[GHG]

Noice! Didnt know this is existing. But yeah....seems to be only controller related unfortunately. But good to know anyway.

Also forgot to mention there are always a bunch of community layouts for more popular games, and if there isn't you can share your own.

That way you rarely have to set things up from scratch, just download a community layout you like the look of and then use that as the baseline if you want to adjust things further.

Honestly it's one of the best features they've added in the last several years, which is why it makes me laugh when people say "it's just a launcher".

 

[BeardSpike]

Also forgot to mention there are always a bunch of community layouts for more popular games, and if there isn't you can share your own.

That way you rarely have to set things up from scratch, just download a community layout you like the look of and then use that as the baseline if you want to adjust things further.

Honestly it's one of the best features they've added in the last several years, which is why it makes me laugh when people say "it's just a launcher".

Steam Input helped me a lot with Dino Crisis on Linux. I installed it with Heroic, added one WINEDLLOVERRIDES argument, used add to Steam for it to use Steam Input, downloaded one of community layouts.

Works like a charm.

 

[nowhat]

I know, but you can't select what to update, just "accept all".

As Arch is a rolling release distro, updating just certain apps (and their dependencies) is a recipe for disaster. If this doesn't work for you, another distro may be more suitable for you.

 

[ClosBSAS]

Three of the torchbearers of PC gaming (Battaglia, Leadbetter and Linneman) start gang banging on Windows and the thing keeps on going for minutes and minutes. I find that curious since some people told me that PC gaming was a breeze nowadays.
Timestamped.

Its a Breeze for ppl like me, not casual wussies who just want plug and play. Half my gaming time is tweaking a game. Stop putting us all in the same bag, i can brute force my way through 98% of this crappy Gen

 

[Critical Hit]

As Arch is a rolling release distro, updating just certain apps (and their dependencies) is a recipe for disaster.

What could go wrong if I stopped updating a note-taking app, for example?

 

[nowhat]

What could go wrong if I stopped updating a note-taking app, for example?

Nothing, although at that point, you'd better be off uninstalling it if you're not using it, just a waste of bits. What I was trying to get at was installing the latest version of $APP with "pacman -Sy $APP" (you should never install anything with "-Sy"). That may very well also update the libraries $APP depends on, that are also used by many other programs, making the system unstable/unusable.

 

[RetroGamingUK]

Any reason move devs (EA for example) don't support SteamOS?

Small userbase?

 

[pudel]

Any reason move devs (EA for example) don't support SteamOS?

Small userbase?

Its seems to be only because of certain anticheat stuff (TPM ie). The question is only if thats really the issue....because lots of other mp titles with anticheat do work pretty well on linux.

But than again, nobody is really supporting linux, except for valve and maybe a few gigachad devs. Its just that proton works so fck well for 90% of the games.

 

[Hyet]

Hey, works on my machine.

Not updating to Windows 11 even if you'd pay me to though. Shit seems bloated to hell and back.

That's my angle too

Win11 looks like a pile of garbage but switching to Linux feels like bending over backwards. I have used Linux before and I could never shake the feeling that it was an obstuse interface with lotsof stuff barely taped together unther the hood.

Steam OS sounds good on paper but I do more stuff with my PC than game. How's other software going to run on that? legit question.

 

[pudel]

That's my angle too

Win11 looks like a pile of garbage but switching to Linux feels like bending over backwards. I have used Linux before and I could never shake the feeling that it was an obstuse interface with lotsof stuff barely taped together unther the hood.

Steam OS sounds good on paper but I do more stuff with my PC than game. How's other software going to run on that? legit question.

Just dual boot and try it out. Interfaces on linux are awesome....windows is a joke compared to linux in that regard. You can do whatever kind of desktop you want....completely customizable. Just check out "Hyprland" alone....

Other software...depends on what you need and if you are willing to use alternative software if needed. There is lots of awesome open source software on linux...but if you really need some kind of very specific software and this one doesnt run on linux....yeah, there is no way you can switch.

 

[RoboFu]

 

[Hyet]

Just dual boot and try it out.

Too much work

Interfaces on linux are awesome....windows is a joke compared to linux in that regard. You can do whatever kind of desktop you want....completely customizable. Just check out "Hyprland" alone....

Aestethics are cool but I'm much more concerned about how usable it is in a practical way for someone who doesn't want to learn to much and wants everything the easy way with low mantinace like me.

Other software...depends on what you need and if you are willing to use alternative software if needed. There is lots of awesome open source software on linux...but if you really need some kind of very specific software and this one doesnt run on linux....yeah, there is no way you can switch.

Nah. I need Adobe stuff and other creative software for complimetary things. I'm not gonna put my income on pause to learn open source cheapo programs just because a windows version I am not using it's not great.

 

[pudel]

someone who doesn't want to learn to much and wants everything the easy way with low mantinace like me.

Thats not the best requirement...I agree!

Adobe seems to be also a huge problem. I am no expert on these creative suites...but always hear/read about Affinity as an alternative.

 

[DeepEnigma]

This is how you can tell they're independent now and certain investments have stopped.

 

[KXVXII9X]

What hassle?

When I want to play a game I just install it and it works. If it's an older game I might have to install a patch someone made sure, but that's better than just not being able to play a game like in a console, no?

I think you guys need to be a little more honest about the shortcomings. Normally things work but there are often periods where something doesn't work as intended and it is a rabbit hole of troubleshooting. Unless you are pretty tech savvy, I don't think the average Joe would want to spend a few hours trying to figure out why a particular game isn't working or why there is a complications all of a sudden.

I have had no issues with my Nintendo Switch (aside from Joycon drift with the original device) but have had many on my Legion Go and Asus Rog Zephyrus G14 laptop.

 

[TintoConCasera]

I think you guys need to be a little more honest about the shortcomings

All my posts are 100% honest. I don't have almost any trouble when it gets to playing stuff on my PC and that included games from the 90s. And when I have it's something that can be fixed in less than 5 minutes.

 

[alabtrosMyster]

Shoild have just disabled it and hidden notifications. Also if you use Tiny11, you wont have any of these issues and its more barebone than what you can debloat youtself

This is one of the reasons why I got rid of windows, I don't want to have to keep MS shovelware on my computer if I don't use it.

 

[KXVXII9X]

All my posts are 100% honest. I don't have almost any trouble when it gets to playing stuff on my PC and that included games from the 90s. And when I have it's something that can be fixed in less than 5 minutes.

I wish that was the case on my end.

 

[TintoConCasera]

I wish that was the case on my end.

Do you know about this site?

PCGamingWiki PCGW - an encyclopedia of PC game fixes

www.pcgamingwiki.com

It's great, has troubleshooting tips for almost any game.