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)
- Fedora (more modern than Mint)
- 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 |
Fedora 42 |
| CPU |
AMD Ryzen 9 7900X |
| GPU |
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 |
| RAM |
32GB DDR4 |
| VR |
Meta Quest 2 via WiVRn |
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, later upgraded to 22 and 22.1.
As of August 2025 I've switched to Fedora Linux, mostly because having VRR and Fractional Scaling via Wayland KDE seemed like a good compromise. Time will have to tell.
