I’m very intrigued. Could you please explain it? Even if you abandoned it, you still learned valuable knowledge.
I’m very intrigued. Could you please explain it? Even if you abandoned it, you still learned valuable knowledge.
Thanks, Steve.
That would make sense if the PCIe or SATA traces would interfere with the GPU.
If it’s just YouTube that’s an issue, have you searched for vaapi in about:config? That ancient CPU probably can’t handle the video with software decoding.
I myself have a Quest 3. I use Air Light VR as a streamer, which only worked after I added something to do with a vrmonitor.sh to the SteamVR command line. Half Life: Alyx runs natively and works just as well, but I’ve had bad luck with most other games, primarily because Steam Cloud didn’t synchronize the Windows saves to my Linux machine. VR even on Windows is already a PITA to set up, and I just don’t have the willpower to get it working properly on Linux. This is the only reason why I even keep the waste of space that is my Windows partition.
Depends on how much crap you’re willing to put up with. It’ll all be worth it in the end! (Pro tip: disable secure boot in BIOS)
I wrote a whole guide on the two options, but then accidentally deleted my comment. You can either install Linux on another drive, or shrink your NTFS partition and install Linux alongside it. You can always access NTFS from Linux, but not the other way around (by default). If you don’t understand what I’m talking about, you should really look it all up. I would personally just backup and wipe, you can always reinstall Windows if you want to.
Have you heard of Valve’s Steam Deck? It’s a handheld gaming device that can play nearly every PC game, and it runs Linux! Valve made gaming on Linux an absolute breeze thanks to Proton. There are some popular games that don’t work, either because Tim Sweeney hates Linux (yes, really) or because the anti-cheat won’t accept Linux, but I only know about Destiny 2 and Rust that have that problem. Easy Anticheat works just fine, I play Apex Legends and Deep Rock Galactic with no issues!
If you have AMD, you don’t even have to think about it. Their drivers are part of the Linux kernel. Nvidia is not impossible to use, but you might have some issues. I experience random desktop environment crashes that I can only attribute to their drivers, but it only happens on startup sometimes, which is the least annoying it could be. If you choose a distro that doesn’t mind automatically installing non-free software, you probably won’t need to think about it either. The open source driver, Nouveau, works fine but performs awfully in games (or at least it did a year ago).
If you just want some clear instructions: backup your files, wipe your disk and install Linux Mint Cinnamon Edition. It’s easy peasy to use and getting the proprietary graphics drivers is only a few clicks away. Just configure your Steam games to run through Proton and you might not even tell the difference.
Don’t worry, Cortana (Clippy the Second) Copilot (Clippy the Third) will surely succeed this time!
[Fedora] might require more setup with an Nvidia GPU
https://rpmfusion.org/Howto/NVIDIA
I only needed 3 Ctrl-Shift-V’s for that. Multimedia codecs are also about the same difficulty.
What a terrible future it would be if people had to commute to their job in a different time! Reminds me of Ook and Gluk by Dav Pilkey.
Is that not what the scaled sort is for?
I second this. There’s just so many more useful features! KDE Connect has to be one of my favourites.
I’m quite curious, are there many advantages to building a libre PC? Last I checked, my hardware doesn’t bombard me with ads, AI and other manifestations of enshittification. Yet.
7900 XTX
“”“Budget”“”
Satisfactory
cozy
Just don’t tell em about the spiders
Most of my VR games don’t seem to track my head movement ;(, but Half Life: Alyx somehow works perfectly fine.
I’m with you on the KSP2 missions. Randomly generated missions may have endless possibilities, but handcrafted ones make much more sense and don’t have their quality determined by RNGesus. I remember once seeing a screenshot of a mission with the goal of testing launch clamps on the surface of the sun.
Apex Legends. Picked it up again this week after months of playing other games. I’m having loads of fun with Rampart, but keep finishing third or second.
That was what surprised me the most. The storefront that claims to buy games that won’t ever break due to DRM doesn’t have a Linux launcher.