cross-posted from: https://discuss.online/post/34247715
Curious on the experiences of those recently migrating to Linux from Windows 10, Intel-based MacOS, etc. How is it being on Linux? Anything surprise or frustrate you?
Dropped Mac, iPhone and all US (cloud) services after 20 years in the Apple Universe.
Was using Linux Mint first and just bought a brand new Tuxedo Laptop in November and am using Tuxedo OS now which is a Ubuntu LTS fork with KDE Plasma and Flatpak instead of Snap.
I am really happy with my decision and not looking back. I feel like I have control over my stuff again and my computer is listening to me instead of forcing me to do things in a specific way that Apple deems correct.
My phone is a Graphene OS for now until Postmarket OS or Ubuntu Touch are usuable and I am self hosting everything I need on Proxmox / Podman and I have a TrueNAS Server with a 64TB Raid running.
It’s a breath of fresh air and a real productivity boost. It’s been ages since I’ve been so enthusiastic and passionate about pc’s.
Love it (CachyOS). For the most part, everything “just works.” I have no plans to go back—not even wishful musings.
There have been a few…let’s call them…stnanks.
- Not all of the sensors were recognized for my motherboard out of the box. The important ones, like basic CPU temp and a few others were fine, but more granular ones, like fan speed, Tjunc, Tdie, etc. were missing. I like to apply my own fan curves based on various sensor conditions, so this was a sticking point initially.
- Thankfully, the Arch wiki and a thanklessly maintained
dkmsmodule for this specific (problematic) chipset came to my rescue. Pretty easy to get set up.
- Thankfully, the Arch wiki and a thanklessly maintained
- A small number of very specific games and mods don’t work on Linux. If you exclusively play competitive online games, there’s a good chance you are going to be out of luck.
- I have friends that play League, but I’m not willing to give up Linux just for that one game. Plenty of other multiplayer games out there that work just fine.
- Audio routing is both easier and more difficult.
- There’s great GUIs to manage audio connections.
- Trying to get automatic connections going, like with VoiceMeeter, is a lot more technical and involves learning Lua and Pipewire/Wireplumber. Not impossible, and audio tends to work just fine otherwise, but if you want a specific custom setup, it will take some effort.
Overall, I wouldn’t trade what I have for Microsoft any day of the week. I’m done being their product.
Recently learned about cachy and installed it yesterday to give it a try. I love it. It’s like arch, so that’s nice if you’re already familiar with arch, but a little less manual, and more functional out of the box; literally every bit of hardware wierdness on my 2in1 laptop just worked out of the box. Also, I love the fish terminal.
- Not all of the sensors were recognized for my motherboard out of the box. The important ones, like basic CPU temp and a few others were fine, but more granular ones, like fan speed, Tjunc, Tdie, etc. were missing. I like to apply my own fan curves based on various sensor conditions, so this was a sticking point initially.
Vast improvements. No regrets. Still working through a few growing pains, though.
What are the few growing pains?
Tell you what, I’ll just link a couple of recent posts/comments from elsewhere:
Honestly it worked so well I often forget I’m a new user
Switched from w11 to bazzite for personal use (still have to use windows for work) and it’s been great. Wish there were a few pieces of software with native Linux support so I could switch for work too.
These few month been relatively smooth sailing. Lot of unlearning and recognizing just how limiting windows was in comparison.
I tried helping a friend with windows recently and immediate felt like I was back in the gulag, so yeah I think Im here for good
Feels great!
like a breath of fresh air.
works great. I’m struggling to even think of anything negative to say. KDE connect doesn’t work as well as I want between my laptop and PC? I really wish I could install something similar on my phone.
Kde connect has some odd issues with routers, I’m suspecting the network swapping from 2.4g to 5g.
Ah yea thats probably it. I had issues with the wifi on my laptop so i swapped to 2.4g. My pc is wired to the router via ethernet, and my phone uses 5g
You can install KDE connect on your phone
Oops, phrasing error on my part. I have kde connect on my phone, i meant to say i wanted linux on my phone, hehe. Android doesnt count :)
For the most part it’s great, I’m just a bit sad I haven’t been able to get a couple of my vsts working in reaper. Other than that, no complaints at all. It boots faster, feels less bloated, and I can still play every game I’ve cared about so far.
Which VST plugins would you recommend for Reaper on Linux? Been working on leveling up my audio recording, level balancing, denoise, etc.
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Still trying to sort that out lol. I can only recommend definitely not anything from Izotope. Surge XT is a synth that seems to work well though, and graillion works for autotune are a couple I use off the top of my head. I’m not very skilled though, so take the above with a grain of salt.
I use Izotope with Reaper just fine. To get the UI working you need Wine 9.21 or earlier.
Oh shit, really? Thanks for the tip, I’ll try that out
Yep, there’s a tutorial do downgrade Wine in the yabridge repo
Thanks!
amazing, best thing I’ve done (although I’m not a fan of bazzite) but besides bazzite, the best thing. never looking back.
It just works… nothing bothering me, no annoying bullshit. it all just works as expected
Nobara has been great. I fucked it up once and had to do a full resinstall. I also tried Mint and Bazzite but ended up going back to Nobara. Only had to go boot into Windows a few times to use some old programs but pretty much everything else has been perfect for me.
Linux is amazing using it for one year now. File explorer tabs is the best thing. Steam proton games works great. Updating software is no longer a nightmare. Big thanks to the Linux community. :)
I switched about a year ago. It’s going great. The only problem with my computer was because my RAM broke, but that would’ve still happened on Windows.
Doing great. Learned alot about Linux. I’m not that good at working with coding or so, but I love the help I can get from the Linux community. I’m on Fedora, because I liked their homepage, and because I had to start somewhere😁
