Kar
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Yep.
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Are you a based Linux gamer?
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Hudo
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Many great things have happened in the history of humanity because of that sentiment.
MrRenegade
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The Fartist
Gold Member
Been using Fedora and Debian for about a year and a half now. It's really hard to go back to Win and MacOS, I still have Win partition for gaming, haven't committed to Linux gaming, yet. Still have MacOS on M1 MacBook Air for when I need the extra battery life, but even that's dual booted with Asahi Fedora. My '15 MBP and Air are Fedroa and Debian dual-boot only.
Paasei
Member
I agree, but not when it comes to me swapping OS.
Soodanim
Member
I have a question for all the based people.
Did a primary drive wipe, chopped it in 2, and set up a dual boot for my first Linux install. Problem is, it's only a 256GB drive. If I install Elden Ring in the Linux partition it won't leave much space at all.
My Game storage drive is 2TB. Is it feasible for me to have a Linux folder within that drive for Steam to work out of? Mint already ready reads it just fine, but I don't know what the possible implications are, and I know Windows can get a bit arsey if another OS touches anything it also touches.
Did a primary drive wipe, chopped it in 2, and set up a dual boot for my first Linux install. Problem is, it's only a 256GB drive. If I install Elden Ring in the Linux partition it won't leave much space at all.
My Game storage drive is 2TB. Is it feasible for me to have a Linux folder within that drive for Steam to work out of? Mint already ready reads it just fine, but I don't know what the possible implications are, and I know Windows can get a bit arsey if another OS touches anything it also touches.
Dirk Benedict
Member
Damn. And here I thought pushing down on the toaster was elite.Yeah, I use a Steam Deck sometimes and once, I booted Ubuntu on old PC.
Sleepwalker
Member
I just installed Linux for the first time ever in my life. I have a laptop that has been giving me issues for over a year (ryzen 5800h + rtx3060). Drivers were all fucked up, it didn't have sound at all no matter how much I troubleshot it (not even through BT, HDMI or headphone jack). It also had problems switching between integrated gpu and the 3060. I did a fresh window install twice but different issues kept popping up every time.
Long story short I installed bazzite + KDE on it, gave it half the ssd just in case and kept my fucked up windows install just in case. Took me a few hours to get the hang of it.
Upon first boot the speakers worked right away and no weird black screen gpu issues. Drivers all work out of the box.
Installed proton GE and will test some games tomorrow but so far very happy. I was ready to consider the laptop e-waste. At the very least now it can surf the web and play media content.
Long story short I installed bazzite + KDE on it, gave it half the ssd just in case and kept my fucked up windows install just in case. Took me a few hours to get the hang of it.
Upon first boot the speakers worked right away and no weird black screen gpu issues. Drivers all work out of the box.
Installed proton GE and will test some games tomorrow but so far very happy. I was ready to consider the laptop e-waste. At the very least now it can surf the web and play media content.
