Comment on Windows Updated and is Pushing More Stuff

• CeeBee@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The last time I used Linux on desktop was around 2007-2008

  Oh dear lord! You have no idea how much things have improved. I think you’ll be in for a nice surprise.

  Also, games work fine on Linux now. The only games that don’t work are ones with invasive anticheat. Or if a developer is stubborn, like FacePunch. I can’t play on official Rust servers, but connecting to a friend’s who has EAC disabled (it’s a private server), it works 100%.

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  • dan@upvote.au ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I think you’ll be in for a nice surprise.

    Hopefully I don’t have to manually tweak ALSA configs for hours to get sound working any more :)

    Any distros you’d recommend? I was just going to try Debian, but I’ve heard that Linux Mint is good too?

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    • CeeBee@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Hopefully I don’t have to manually tweak ALSA configs

      I hope you’re just kidding. Because we’ve moved past ALSA to PulseAudio and then again over to Pipewire. Pulse was a bit rough, but Pipewire is fantastic.

      Any distros you’d recommend?

      I guess it depends on what you’ve been using server side. It would be helpful to say in the same family of distros. If you’ve been using Debian/Ubuntu based, then Mint is a good choice. Pop!_OS is a good choice too.

      My very strong recommendation for DE would be KDE Plasma. It’s not like it used to be. Plasma is one of the fastest desktops now and even competes with the lightest DEs for memory usage.

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      • dan@upvote.au ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        hope you’re just kidding. Because we’ve moved past ALSA to PulseAudio and then again over to Pipewire.

        I am! It’s one of my last memories of trying to use Linux on my PC. PulseAudio was still a new thing that wasn’t widespread yet.

        guess it depends on what you’ve been using server side. It would be helpful to say in the same family of distros. If you’ve been using Debian/Ubuntu based, then Mint is a good choice

        I’ve been using Debian on servers since around the year 2000, so I’ll probably stick to Debian or something Debian-based.

        My very strong recommendation for DE would be KDE Plasma. It’s not like it used to be. Plasma is one of the fastest desktops now and even competes with the lightest DEs for memory usage.

        Wow! KDE used to be the slow, bloated desktop environment. I never used it because of how bloated it was. I used to run Xfce. Thanks for the update - I’ll definitely try it again.

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• speaker_hat@lemmy.one ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Congrats on the consideration pal.

  I use Ubuntu for my personal desktop and work desktop, and it works smoothly without “Microsoft surprises” like this post. I also don’t game in PC.

  Want to make an easier move? If your Windows is EUFI boot, shrink your Windows partition in half, and on the other half install Ubuntu.

  Then you can slowly, in your own pase, start doing more things in the Ubuntu partition, until you’ll find yourself not using the Windows partition anymore.

  Not happy? Just remove the Ubuntu partition afterwards, and go back to Windows.

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