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I am leaving Win10 for Garuda (lemmy.eco.br)
submitted 1 year ago by caboclo@lemmy.eco.br to c/leftistunix@lemmygrad.ml
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My Predator Helios from 2018 is working just fine with win10, but I really want to move over to linux.

Probably I will start to have problems but I would like to hear comrades opinions.

This Laptop is mostly for gaming.

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[-] CohortCzort@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 1 year ago

That's the distro i'm using. I've switched away a few times, but I end up back at Garuda. It's been pretty painless in regards to gaming.

Every time i try to switch to something that doesnt have aur/chaotic, i tend to miss it.

It's also nice to have something to lean on when you don't have the answers between the os, wiki, and forums you should be able to figure out whats going wrong.

[-] caboclo@lemmy.eco.br 2 points 1 year ago

I hear you comrade! So far the experience is very neat. Do we have a /c/garuda somewhere in the fediverse?

[-] Ciel@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 1 year ago

Garuda is great

[-] caboclo@lemmy.eco.br 3 points 1 year ago

I am enjoying it a lot! So far so great!

[-] notthatdude@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Games generally ram fine with me under Linux and proton. I did however have some issues with anti cheat preventing me from playing some online games.

Edit: was running Xubuntu 20.04 at the time.

[-] caboclo@lemmy.eco.br 2 points 1 year ago

I heard more people talking about the anti cheat issue. For me won't be much of a problem, as I play mostly single players.

[-] AlbigensianGhoul@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 1 year ago

Be wary of GPU drivers. AMD used to work fine, but nvidia can sometimes get wonky and either make booting slower than it should be or just outright break your X server. But overall games work super smoothly nowadays with Proton, and you can even run non-Steam games with it.

And if you're not acquainted with it, the Arch Wiki is always useful, but specially for arch-based distros like that one.

[-] caboclo@lemmy.eco.br 3 points 1 year ago

Thanks, comrade. The system recognized my Nvidia 1060, hopefully It will run fine.

What's X server? is it related to X11 thing?

[-] AlbigensianGhoul@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 1 year ago

It's one of the window system on top of which gnome or other desktops run. But I misspoke there, what usually got messed up was the display manager, specifically lightdm.

But if everything is running fine I doubt you'll have any future issues. Just remember to check nvidia-smi in case of FPS drops to see if the game is using the GPU.

[-] caboclo@lemmy.eco.br 2 points 1 year ago

Thanks for the hint, I will take note.

Some people mentioned that the system defaults to the onboard GPU instead of the dedicated one, so it is good to learn this command.

[-] mousetail@fosstodon.org 2 points 1 year ago

@caboclo @AlbigensianGhoul yep, the x server is one half of x11. Though Wayland will replace both of them any day now...

[-] caboclo@lemmy.eco.br 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Should I look into replacing it already with Wayland?

[-] mousetail@fosstodon.org 1 points 1 year ago

@caboclo depends. There is still a good amount of issues that make it a lot harder to get to work. It is the future though.

[-] Twink@hexbear.net 2 points 1 year ago

Should be fine! I really like Arch and Garuda promises being gaming friendly so it should treat you well. :)

[-] caboclo@lemmy.eco.br 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah, I finished installing it yesterday with KDE environment and it looks neat now (their default is too colorful for my taste). The system seems to be solid so far.

[-] Twink@hexbear.net 2 points 1 year ago

KDE is really neat once you realize its full potential. Sadly, I cannot send a screen as I'm nearly all out of data!

[-] caboclo@lemmy.eco.br 3 points 1 year ago

KDE is really neat once you realize its full potential

Cool! I feel like I am only on the tip of the iceberg and it is already great lol.

Sadly, I cannot send a screen as I’m nearly all out of data!

No worries, You can send it when you have data. or post to !unixporn@lemmy.ml and tag me :) I am interested to see it.

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