Thank you to
@AGoatOnAHill for being a very inspirational goat
@Pikamon19 for being my first and last painting commissioner!
GitHub for hosting this website
Recommendations for people moving away from Windows
- The Linux Distro you pick doesn't matter. They all perform about the same, though I do have some personal preferences.
- Linux Mint (great all-rounder, especially if you're coming from Windows)
- Ubuntu what Linux Mint is based on, and comes with a more MacOS-like Interface
- It doesn't matter what Hardware you have. Linux support is pretty good on most stuff nowadays.
- SSDs are your friend. Only use HDDs for long-term storage that you don't intend to access frequently.
- Linux is not, and will never be, Windows. It's a genuine miracle any Windows Software works on Linux at all. Cut it some slack when not everything runs flawlessly, please?
- BACK STUFF UP. DATA ROT IS REAL. PARTITIONS ARE EASY TO MESS UP.
As for gaming, a few more hints:
- Check out ProtonDB to check how well Windows Games run on Linux via Proton
- Check out Are We Anti-Cheat Yet? to check for how well games with Anti-Cheat run, if at all
- Proton, DXVK, etc. all largely rely on Vulkan 1.3, which can be problematic on older Hardware. Check out Proton Sarek in that case
- A lot of games will run worse on Linux, simply due to not running directly on the hardware, and needing to go through Wine/Proton.
My Setup
| OS |
Linux Mint 22 |
| CPU |
AMD Ryzen 9 7900X |
| GPU |
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 |
| RAM |
32GB DDR4 |
| VR |
Meta Quest 2 via ALVR + SteamVR |
Some background
I first tried Linux via hosting a Minecraft Server with Ubuntu in 2020 or so. It was a very sucky experience, especially without port forwarding, but it worked decently enough considering I was running it on a 2009 Prebuilt.
I tried again in the Summer of 2023, when I installed PopOS on a Windows Tablet I used for school. It turned out to be too much of a hassle, due to all the Microsoft Programs being used by my school.
I gave it another shot in Spring of 2024, when I dual-booted Linux Mint 21.3 alongside Windows. Here I realized that dual-booting would always result in me going with what I'm comfortable with, which was Windows.
In Summer 2024 I finally decided to wipe my M.2 completely and did a clean install of Linux Mint 21.3.
