• Bahnd Rollard@lemmy.worldEnglish
    722·
    7 months ago

    Come on over, the water is fine. I switched to Pop_OS a few months back for the gaming rig and Proton+Steam works almost flawlessly. Older titles sometimes have hiccups, but so far ive only been blocked on one title.

    • mesamune@lemmy.worldEnglish
      321·
      7 months ago

      Yep it’s pretty easy and my computer runs so much faster than Windows on the same machine.

    • DichotoDeezNutz@lemmy.worldEnglish
      18·
      7 months ago

      I just switched from W10 to Pop_OS and have had lots of trouble. I’m trying to stick with it but from audio glitches to many games not running unless I find a random CLI arg that someone mentioned on Reddit, to my UI freezing, it’s not been an easy switch.

      • Nevoic@lemm.eeEnglish
        16·
        7 months ago

        Any chance you have an nvidia card? Nvidia for a long time has been in a worse spot on Linux than AMD, which interestingly is the inverse of Windows. A lot of AMD users complain of driver issues on Windows and swap to Nvidia as a result, and the exact opposite happens on Linux.

        Nvidia is getting much better on Linux though, and Wayland+explicit sync is coming down the pipeline. With NVK in a couple years it’s quite possible that nvidia/amd Linux experience will be very similar.

        • Lemminary@lemmy.worldEnglish
          4·
          7 months ago

          I wish I still had my AMD card but it decided to brick itself for no apparent reason after it made horrible humming noises whenever it chose to ever since I bought it. I have an Nvidia card now and haven’t had a single issue on Windows yet, but maybe my days are counted to the moment I switch to Linux.

      • SidewaysHighways@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        7 months ago

        Try bazzite? It’s been cool with my setup. Intel processor with GTX 1660 ti.

        Mint has been cool too! on a laptop with a 1650 on it

    • kakes@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      6·
      7 months ago

      I’ve seen a lot of people recommending Pop_OS lately. Out of curiosity, what’s the benefit over something like Mint?

      • HeyMrDeadMan@lemmy.worldEnglish
        5·
        7 months ago

        I’ll try to offer an answer to both you and @natedog526.

        Pop came heavily recommended for a while because it’s relatively light-weight for a modern desktop, had some fresh UI ideas with its COSMIC plugins for Gnome, and ships with some nice bonuses for gamers like built in Steam and Nvidia setup scripts.

        Unfortunately, it’s become pretty stale lately. I still use it daily on my main desktop, but lately it’s becoming harder and harder to keep from hopping to something new. A few pain points include Pop shipping older version of some important software like the Kernel, Wine, and Mesa, persistsant audio bugs like the other user mentioned, and basically no support for Wayland at the moment.

        A lot of these are because System76 has been heavily focused working on its COSMIC desktop, which should function a full standalone desktop environment instead of Gnome with duct tape. It’s looking forward to seeing it which has so far kept me from switching, but with no release date and other distros offering what Pop offers, it’s harder and harder to stay put.

      • Omnifarious@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        7 months ago

        Curious about this too. I was gonna spend some time trying some different distros. Both mint and PopOs are on my list.

    • rdrunner@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      7 months ago

      If iRacing and my other sim racing gear worked with Linux I’d make the switch asap. I already have popOS on another hard drive and everything other than iRacing has worked well

      • poleslav@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        7 months ago

        Yup, similar boat but with planes instead of cars. Most inputs Linux can support on a single usb device is 86 or so, my throttle alone has well over 150 buttons on it. Add in all the stuff for my sim cockpit (probably around 1000 buttons), my haptic feedback chair, and then VR… as much as I’d like to use Linux, I don’t think it’d be possible for the foreseeable future for me to switch.

    • kennebel@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      7 months ago

      I switched to Pop!_OS about 3 months ago and have been loving it! First Linux distribution that just worked for me, and every app works better than any other Linux or Windows 11 on the same hardware.