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I mean you can install Revi with Windows 11 and that makes Microsoft essentially stay out of the picture while you do what you want. If I were to go back to Windows I wouldn’t do it without installing it with Revi.
I mean you can install Revi with Windows 11 and that makes Microsoft essentially stay out of the picture while you do what you want. If I were to go back to Windows I wouldn’t do it without installing it with Revi.
I went with CachyOS cause it was also suggested to me here, has a good development team, and works great with nvidia cards. It’s so fast too. doubles my FPS on most games (went from 40ish FPS in Final Fantasy 14 on Windows to 80+ FPS on CachyOS) and also doubles my battery life of my laptop. Windows 11 had my battery to like maybe an hour but 30min for sure if I was doing anything other than browsing. on linux I’m getting 3 hours out of it regardless of what I’m doing.
If you’re looking to easily transition from windows to get used to linux I’d say anything that uses Plasma or Cinnamon will do you well. an Arch distro with Plasma would work swimmingly.
Honestly, switch to Linux.
I’ve been a Windows user all my life and my last attempt at using Linux was back in the early 00’s and…it did not go well at all. but now? it’s easier to install than Windows and it’s faster.
I finally decided to make the switch the other week after someone on Lemmy suggested Mint to me. Really it’s the best way to get introduced to Linux and it’s so god damn painfully easy to install. Once you get your barings you can switch to another distro that’s more suited to what you want to focus on doing on your pc.
I used Mint for just over a week, figured out packages and cloning from repos to install things, got all my games and what have you working on it, etc. Then decided to go with CachyOS cause it seemed a great option for gaming.
It just works. And there’s so many great communities online where if something doesn’t work there’s people out there who know HOW to get it to work and walk you through it. It’s actually easier to find programs and and install them then using windows. If I want something well I can either open up Octopi (built in) and search for something I need OR if I know it’s on Windows and I want in on Cachy I can go to AUR and just search for it. 9 times out of 10 someone has already made a package to install it. couple of command lines later and I have it. literally just copy and paste the git repo and build it.
I’ll never go back to Windows, never. Linux is in such a great place right now that your basic PC user can get it going. And it’s so much fun to customize and tailor to your needs.
How is Bazzite as far as desktops/laptops go?
I’ve just switched over to linux last week from Windows and i’m hooked. But now I find i’m just looking at all the various distros trying to figure out which one would be best for me. Right now I’m on Mint/cinnamon and it’s great. but I’ve had my eye on CachyOS, Nobara, and Bazzite.
I wanted to try out Bazzite via live usb but it doesn’t have that option. So I’m just curious what people who use it think of it.
Edit: decided to go with CachyOS. bit harder to set up and get going then Mint but I managed to pull it off and actually prefer it. super fast too.
best thing EA can do is just drop the rights to it back to American McGee and let him fumble his way to a third game. His die hard fans, of which there are many, will love it but I imagine it would get critically panned just like all his other games with the exception of the first Alice.
Many former id guys when they go out on their own don’t have the best track record.
my ex-girlfriend loved the first game, she even got a massive tattoo of the cat on her back. The second game? it was horrible. It took everything that was great about the first game and just said “fuck it” and toss it out the window. graphically it was nice but it just lacked that insanity of the first game, the story was weak and just didn’t draw you in like the first did.
And make no mistake McGee, on his own, is a one trick pony. He got fired from Id for bad level designs (which, depending on who you ask is controversial) he knocked it out of the park with Alice, but fumbled with Madness Returns and…ugh…Bad Day LA which NO ONE remembers.
So I mean kudos to fans that like this game but only if McGee stays far away from a potential third game in the series I wouldn’t hold out much hope.
I mean it’s already practically there. I made the switch from Windows to Linux this past week. I’ve been able to get World of Warcraft, Final Fantasy XIV, and Elden Ring all working on it. and the “hardest” one to get going/install was WoW only because I needed to install one script to get working. FFXIV and Elden Ring worked right out of the box on steam.
I only just switched to Linux this past week and I use Mint. It was suggested to me by someone here on lemmy. It was easy to set up, customize, and get all my stuff working on it. I have World of Warcraft, Final Fantasy XIV, Elden Ring and a few other games all working on it. The only issue, and right now it’s a minor one, I’m having is the 535 nividia drivers can cause random stutters/lag every now and then but nothing major.
My point is for people like me who are new to linux and don’t want to get overwhelmed I think Mint is great. I know eventually i’ll change to a different more “advanced” distro, right now I have my eye on CachyOS, but I don’t think I’m there quite yet to confidently install it.
it was the nvidia 535 driver. I switched to nouveau and that solved the stuttering/lag. but made gaming suck. so then I tried installing 550 drivers and that just outright bricked my system, recovered and went back to the 535. works for gaming so I’ll just tolerate the stuttering I guess.
So either use Nvidia’s driver and deal with the stuttering or don’t and can’t game. great.
and since I do game I take it that it’s not advised?
yup after posting I did a bit of reading. It was the nvidia driver. switched to the nouveau driver and problem solved. sorry still new to all this.
Mint is great, been using it for the past couple days and I’ve been able to get Elden Ring, FFXIV, WoW, Balatro, and FNV with a bunch of mods running on it very smoothly. all very easy to install. Steam games worked just like Windows for installing. WoW took a bit of extra steps but nothing difficult to do. Love Mint, it’s so easy to use. It’s like “hmm I wonder if I could customize or do this on it” and with Mint the answer 9 out of 10 times is yes.
I just want to follow up and say “thank you so much!” I took the dive and partioned out space for Linux Mint. played around with it for a bit and said “fuck it, I love this thing” and did a fresh install on my laptop deleting windows 11.
Holy crap this thing has improved my laptop so much. it’s so damn fast, boots up quicklly and believe it or not my battery lasts longer now. I just spent hours customizing how it looks, it’s fun, it’s great.
Also I was easilly about to install steam, elden ring, Final Fantasy XIV and even World of Warcraft and they all work, and run, better on this machine now.
WoW was actually pretty easy to get going in all honesty. Instead of installing WoW directly on Litrus instead you install Battle.net via Litrus and it simply does the rest, EVEN going that route allowed me to install other blizzard games like Hearthstone without doing anything special.
My only beef right now is I’m having issues customizing the panel like I want. Tried installing polybar and got in a bit over my head with i3wm but I’m sure I’ll figure that stuff out soon. Got a cool app launcher going that makes things so much easier, even changed the shell and got zsh going which is great.
I love it, absolutely love it and won’t be going back to Windows ever. I imagine once I get a handle of Mint I might switch to a different distro like Arch (I love the look of that and how people have customized it) but for now this is perfect.
awesome, I’m familiar with Dalamud, I’ll give Mint a shot when I have some time. thank you very much.
I’m a total Linux noob though so should I be fairly good to go with Mint?
AND NOW it’s come out he was ALSO during the same period sexting a transgender sex worker for private cam shows in exchange for partner status on Twitch: https://x.com/iqkev/status/1806236733727555604 After receiving said cam shows, the Doc promptly blocked her.
I use Revi. fresh install then immediately install Revi, gets rid of all the bloatware, copilot, onedrive, edge, etc.
I’d switch to a linux install but I just don’t have to time to figure out which is the right one for me, installing it, configuring it, etc. I wish I did, wish I had the time to play around with it but I simply don’t. (I mean maybe someone smarter than me can tell me a linux distro that will work with world of warcraft, steam, final fantasy xiv, etc) so I have to settle with win 11+revi
Looks like something the Deacons of the Deep would be protecting right next to the massive empty tomb.
WoW these days you can pretty much get through the game and into endgame stuff without being in a guild. It’ll be more tough if you’re looking to run mythics/heroics but if you honestly don’t care about running heroic/mythic raids/dungeons then you 100% never need to talk to anyone.
then you have games like EVE Online where it’s pretty much essential you get yourself into a corp/alliance or a solid Discord group. Sure you can solo but doing so makes an already tough game insanely harder or you’ve regulated yourself to the relative safety of empire space. Faction Warfare is a great noob friendly starting point to dip your toes into corps/alliances and the politics/meta involved with that stuff. But in many cases joining a corp/alliance in EVE is like applying for a job. background checks, interviews, mandatory monthly meetings and call to arms/operations, etc. EVE is like working on Wall Street but you don’t get paid.
FFXIV is another one you really don’t need to join a Free Company. And chances are if you do join one most of them aren’t running the content anyways, you’re just joining to talk and hang out.
Don’t expect a MASSIVE increase in performance though. Just keep that in mind. But it will remove Edge, copilot, onedrive, ads, manditory updates, and a lot of microsoft bloatware.