Hi all,
I made this post about a year ago: https://lemmy.ca/post/31760258
At the time, I was going to switch a couple laptops over and if all went well, put Linux on my main rig.
I just wanted to provide an update on my own experiences, and wanted to see what other people’s experiences were like.
I put Mint on both my laptop’s, and enjoyed it. Familiar enough to Windows where I could mess around with things, but different enough that I could learn. After 7 or 8 months of rocking Mint, I finally put Bazzite on my main rig. I did during the work week, which on hindsight was a bad idea because I also run Windows on my main rig as my work requires Windows, but I accidentally deleted my Windows bootloader (lol). After an evening of panic, I was able to recover the bootloader, set Bazzite up with dual booting, and it’s been smooth sailing since.
I’m a pretty big gamer, play lots of games with a bunch of friends, and after about 3 months of using Bazzite, I have not run into a SINGLE issue that has prevented me from playing anything. I have been shocked at how smooth everything has been. In the morning, I boot into Windows, work for the day, and then when I’m done I just run boot-windows through Steam or reboot to get into Bazzite and then I’m gaming.
I have done a little bit of tinkering with audio to get my desk mic to work correctly, but it’s been great!
For others who have recently made the switch over, what was your experience like? Any issues? Any tips or helpful suggestions to share?
Cheers!
I’m probably thinking of a bigger timeline, don’t recall the last time I tried to migrate but it was probably between 5 and 10 years.
Biggest improvement is Steam+Proton. Gaming in Linux was a huge PITA in the past and nowadays it just works automagically.
Wayland was a big deal to me since it supports some features I needed like per-screen scaling, using my 13’’ notebook on a desk without that gets really straining. I’m using KDE and I also think Linux GUIs have massively improved in usability.
Hardware support improved a lot, though there are still gaps like fingerprint readers which honestly still suck in Linux. But at least all the essential stuff works very well out of the box.
Docker standardizing deployments made it easier to use any OS you want for coding… which is probably a bigger win for MacOS to be honest. More cross-platform support for development tools (including .Net on Linux) also help since that avoids the need of dual-booting when your day job involves these.
Though we have lost the cube being widely available. ;)