• andrewta@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    Glad I took the plunge and installed mint linux, hasn’t been installed that long and I still use windows 10 for now. Still trying to get everything working, but yeah windows is going away if I have anything to say about it.

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      3 months ago

      Made the same move myself. Honestly was expecting it to be much more effort than it was. Happy with how everything has gone so far.

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        3 months ago

        I was very surprised how smooth it actually is as well. I was not clear how Wine works for nom-Steam games but once I learned about Heroic launcher and Lutris it was pretty much smooth sailing so far.

        I thought I will use Linux every now and then, instead I never booted Windows ever since installing Mint.

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      3 months ago

      Same here. Switched over to mint as my main driver about 3 months ago. I keep a win 10 installation in order to play one game. If windows tries to mess with my dual boot, I’ll boot windows out the door. I don’t need to pay that game that bad…

      Edit: spelling is hard

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        3 months ago

        I dual booted for ages between random Linux installs and windows because of a couple games.

        The only way I found that windows wouldn’t fuck with the bootloader was to keep windows on a separate drive.

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      3 months ago

      I had a dual boot going for six weeks this summer, but Mint had a lot of incompatibility issues with my Nvidia setup. I did love Mint, though, just not having to troubleshoot almost every time I booted up my PC.

      I’m going to upgrade to a new PC later this year, and when I do, I’m going to do a dedicated Linux install on my old PC with a different distro and use the new one only for gaming.

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        3 months ago

        I had a similar issue with my Mint installation earlier this year as well. I have a 2080Ti, and the default drivers and the drivers I kept getting prompted to install would always cause my resolution to be potato quality. I never did figure out how to squash that.

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          3 months ago

          For me I just figured it was an unfortunate hardware incompatibility, but there are other distros that are specifically built around Nvidia compatibility, so I’ll pick one of those when I make the switch.

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          3 months ago

          default is open source nouveau driver, and it’s indeed bad. i use proprietary ones and i get them by searching from the software center for “nvidia driver” and just pick the newest one. i have 3060 ti and for a long time mint was the only distro that did not give me any issues. since version 550 i can use other distros too without any problems.

  • Dizzy Devil Ducky@lemm.ee
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    3 months ago

    At this point installing win11 is a bug that can be easily fixed by installing anything from Linux to BSD to even something as incomplete and not meant for use as a daily driver as AROS at this point.

  • Matt@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    3 months ago

    Every so often I wonder why I still use windows. And then I realize it’s easier to debloate windows than it is to emulate windows software on wine.