I have been daily driving a dual booted laptop for the past two years. After a year of distro hopping I settled with fedora + kde and never looked back. I really liked the auto nvidia driver config and it made everything so pleasant to work. Since the last 8 or 9 months I decided to do gaming using bottles and proton ge. I cannot afford to buy games and bottles is a God send at that. Now I realized that I had not logged into my windows partition in over 6 months. So I logged in to check and it told me it needs to download 8 gigs of updates. That sent me into rage and so clean installed everything to be fedora. I have 250 gb of storage locked in limbo because of windows( I have a 512 gb ssd so it was a lot) and today after everything was setup, the os took only around 20gb minus the games. Never felt happier.
I am happy for you. Windows really is a piece of shit lately, and given how easy it is to switch to Linux nowadays, it is pretty amazing to me that more people haven’t done it.
I know. Plus it’s OUR operating system.
I have a new motherboard, RAM, and CPU to install and I think I will just take that as a good time to leave Windows behind. My Steam Deck convinced me it’s viable.
I’m in the same spot. I just need to look into my “must have” items for work before I switch. Windows is increasingly terrible, and the Steam Deck I got a month ago has proven to me that Linux is good for games now, too.
I’m tempted to try Linux again, finally, after some failed experiments in the mid 00s. I’m so sick of Microsoft’s shit sandwich, between bloat and spyware.
I haven’t “nuked” Windows yet, but I have resized the drive it currently resides on. Instead of taking up the whole 1TB, it now only takes up 256GB, which means I can no longer play on it.
You are basically me a few months back. Just give it enough time and Microsoft will get on your nerves.
BTW, do you know Microsoft tries to decrypt and index all your data on one drive using the info it already knows about you and on win11 all your documents pictures etc folders are on one drive? Food for thought.
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I’m proud of you! I recently bought a new laptop and it came with Windows 11. I heard all sorts of crap about it but I wanted to see for myself.
So many basic settings changes (that I’d use fairly often) went from 1-2 clicks to 3-5. They tried so hard to make it look like a mobile OS that they lowered its usability for anyone who doesn’t just use it as an express lane to Google Chrome.
Anyways rocking Ubuntu with Wayland and am happier to troubleshoot little bugs every now and then than put up with spyware.
Exactly. I would rather have to work a little and full control rather than non being able to work on problems they shove on me because I have no control
I just hate all the distractions and news clickbait stuff in the start menu. I use a computer to do tasks and browse media at my own discretion. Get the actual hell out of my face with forced infotainment consumption.
I’m just trying to get out before using an LLM-based OS is no longer optional with Microsoft. No game or software is worth dealing with that.
LLMs are seriously dope and the technology behind AI is incredible, but using it for everything isn’t appropriate. I’d like a place to ask a chatbot stuff. I don’t wanna be surrounded in it.
Exactly how I feel. Just keep it in my browser or maybe my IDEs. I don’t need my desktop pinging a corporation with all my data to occasionally use a chatbot.
Just goes to show how valuable data is. They’ll do anything to siphon it off you.
Linux has been my main system since 2016. Still haven’t nuked windows because I need it for removing DRM with calibre from ebooks. That is literally the only reason anymore.
Sadly I have to use it for work because Altium doesn’t run on linux, but it’s always nice to come home to a system that isn’t a buggy piece of shit like win11 😅
I thought Calibre was available for Linux. It isn’t?
@Templa @JustEnoughDucks Yup, it’s on Linux.
Yes but the DeDRM plugin hasn’t worked since they migrated Python versions a few years ago, especially when you have to run a very old Adobe version in wine to grab the keys.
Yeahhhh it’s like made for Linux
There are a few things missing from my Linux distros of choice that I really need in a computer experience, so I’m waiting til M$ ends support for Win10 before switching. Hopefully by that time the four things I use my computer for the most will be more practically achievable.
I’ve been windows-free for about 8 months as well. I’m a more casual gamer so i haven’t had to venture out of steam proton yet (but i’ve got bottles on hand to experiment anyway) A few of the games i tend to return to every few years will definitely need bottles.
I built a beefy system, and I was initially planning on running windows (or one of the de-microsofted builds) on a vm with pass-through GPU (shunting my linux over to the on-cpu gpu when im running it) but so far i’ve had no need to continue setting that up. I proactively placed all my steam games on an ntfs filesystem just in case i do in the future.
Either way, i’m glad to have the flexibility to make windows work without dual boot, but so far it looks like i was being overly cautious. Probably cant play some games with anti-cheat right now… but i so rarely play those types of game.
I also have thought that in case I need a windows install later on I can just create a vm with network access cut off.
I you like Fedora, you might want to look at Nobara. Super optimized for gaming and AV work.
I would advise against Nobara. Why?
- Only one maintainer. If he quits the project, it will leave many many users without maintenance updates
- Slow updates. Maintaining a distro is a lot of work, and especially major updates can take many many months.
- Very insecure. It disables SELinux for example.
- Many tweaks that might make the OS less reliable.
- And much more… I absolutely respect GE’s work, but for one person, it’s just impossible/ hard to keep it secure and well working.
What else would I recommend? Bazzite (if you use your PC only for gaming) or the various other images from universal-blue.org
Why?
- They also come with QoL changes by default, just like Nobara
- They are actually secure because they maintain themselves automatically without any input. If a update comes from Fedora, it takes less than a few hours to also land on uBlue
- It’s reproducible. Every Bazzite install for example is the exact same. If one user has a bug due to a modification from Bazzite, the dev will have it too and can just fix it easily.
- And much more.
Well it works perfectly to me. I dont need updates every 24h , I just wants all codecs preinstalled for Davinci and Reaper, and games to work out of the box, and I get all that with Nobara. If the dev abandon it I’ll switch to something else but its currently up to date with fedora and well maintained.
I didn’t know about no bara until today. Maybe I will check it out. But i am really comfortable in fedora now, so if something borks, I will check it.
Yep of course if your system works dont bother switching. Nobara is basically Fedora for gaming. It’s developped by a Proton guy and follows Fedora update cycles with a few months delay.
I like what glorious eggroll is doing and would love to try it. But it’s a no go for me since it has no selinux.
