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I made the switch yesterday (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by Tywele@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/linux_gaming@lemmy.ml

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Just wanted to say I made the switch yesterday from Windows 11 to Fedora Linux, no dual booting. It took multiple installs though because the first two times I followed old instructions for installing the Nvidia drivers. The third time I found out that I can just install them through the software center when third party repositories are enabled and that worked like a breeze.

And I have to say it's a really good thing that the installer for Fedora is getting an overhaul soon because Anaconda is horribly confusing in its UX.

Edit: just wanted to add a hyfetch screenshot:

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[-] octopus_ink@lemmy.ml 52 points 1 week ago

Welcome to the community! 😀

[-] 1984@lemmy.today 15 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

It's normal to have that experience, something is outdated, some things are not intuitive but you come out as a winner on the other side if you don't give up. :)

[-] Tywele@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 week ago

Currently the only thing for me that definitely needs improvement is the configuration of GDM because I just can't understand why my display configuration doesn't get applied to my login screen so that my login is on my secondary monitor instead of my primary one. And why can't I set a wallpaper for my login screen easily? Things like these should be built in.

[-] Jaximus@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 week ago

Currently the only thing for me that definitely needs improvement is the configuration of GDM

Preach bro

[-] Tywele@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 week ago

Please don't call me bro.

[-] jonesy@aussie.zone 1 points 1 week ago

Same experience as me, worked it out eventually but not as intuitive as it should be.

[-] TheHobbyist@lemmy.zip 13 points 1 week ago

Marvelous :) Good on you for taking this leap. The Linux community on Lemmy can help if you need any advice or guidance. I have been rocking fedora for the last few years and I've been very pleased, also with an Nvidia GPU.

I'm curious if you have any resources to get setup with the Nvidia drivers, different from mine? My reference has always been: https://rpmfusion.org/Howto/NVIDIA

And it's always worked like a charm, both for legacy hardware and new hardware.

[-] Tywele@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 week ago

Don't know if the first time had something to do with Nvidia but I changed something in GDM settings and couldn't login anymore, it just returned me to the login screen after typing in my password. The second time it said something about a missing kernel module upon startup. Both times I followed the same instructions you linked but doing it through the software center is definitely simpler and more straightforward.

[-] hperrin@lemmy.ca 12 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

If you can, comment on those old posts to let people know those instructions don’t work anymore. Welcome to the light side. :)

[-] Cheems@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago

I built a new PC recently and decided to go with fedora as well to see if I liked it. I have amd and saw multiple things saying drivers on Linux are different and you don't need to update them. Is that true?

[-] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

You generally don't need to mess with drivers on Linux with desktop oriented distros.

One exception is Nvidia graphics cards IF you want to game. They'll work fine out of the box but for full gaming performance you've gotta install their proprietary drivers. (And this is slightly harder on Fedora due to their more aggressive anti-proprietary policies.)

[-] Tywele@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 week ago

I found it was pretty easy once I knew how ^^

Just enable third party repositories during the setup, search for Nvidia in the Software Center and install the drivers and follow the instructions displayed, done.

[-] Cheems@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

I had heard that Nvidia doesn't play well with Linux which is one of many reasons I went with amd

[-] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 3 points 1 week ago

It works but can be more finicky

[-] swab148@lemm.ee 5 points 1 week ago

They'll update when you update the rest of your system, using whatever software center app you have or sudo dnf upgrade .

[-] Cheems@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Ok that's what I thought, but just wanted to be sure. Thanks!

[-] shininghero@pawb.social 1 points 1 week ago

This, and they also generally don't require a reboot. Especially with the dnf method.
I dunno why the software center forces you to reboot for updates, but it's typically unnecessary.

[-] domi@lemmy.secnd.me 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

There's two different ways to update modern Linux system, either you apply the updates directly or you wait until the next reboot to apply them.

Fedora KDE allows you to choose which method you want to use when using the software center UI:

I dunno why the software center forces you to reboot for updates

Because it's more stable.

The big drawback of updating immediately is that you might end up with incompatible packages. Any application that is running while an update for it is installed will keep using the old version until the application is restarted or the system is rebooted. The kernel and some system applications never exit, that means that they will keep using the old version until you reboot.

[-] luckyeddy@lemm.ee 7 points 1 week ago

Welcome!

[-] oscardejarjayes@hexbear.net 6 points 1 week ago

Welcome! tux

[-] octopus_ink@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

You've taken your first step into a larger world. /ObiWan

Welcome aboard!! 😁

[-] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

That's excellent. I played around with fedora a bit and I felt it was very solid. I hope you have the same experience!

[-] Tywele@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 week ago

I already have some experience with Fedora Server where I selfhost my stuff so I'm confident that I will have the same experience.

[-] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

Great! Always good to see people leaving windows. As someone, who for about 15 years, said "linux isn't ready yet" and then finally switched 99% to linux, it is very painful to use windows these days. I had to test something on windows the other day and literally had to reboot 4 times for updates because it had been like 2 months since I updated.

[-] Tywele@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 week ago

I'm still using Windows on my work laptop don't know if I will switch to Linux there as well because there is so much to setup for work 😅

[-] TheFinn@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 week ago

May want to run that by IT first

[-] Tywele@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 week ago

It's my own laptop

[-] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

haha I had a coworker who worked a dev role at a corporation and he simply refused to follow the IT processes. He just installed linux and told them to leave him alone every time they complained. I don't think I could pull that off though

[-] whotookkarl@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

Fedora core was also my first distro I installed back in 2006, it's an elegant set of tools and stable for general use, happy computing!

[-] pineapple@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 week ago

Welcome! I'm not as brave as you I'm still dual booting.

[-] frauddogg@hexbear.net 2 points 1 week ago

Real question: how do you get around giving up EAC-based games? It's only just now occurring to me how much of my library uses it, and I don't think any of the games I play make use of the Linux EAC solutions that exist-- and a couple of those games, I actively make mods for; so it's like. The only thing keeping me from changing over at this point is just how much of my library I'd have to give up or dualboot for.

[-] Tywele@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 week ago

I'm not playing them in the first place. I'm not too keen on competitive multiplayer games.

[-] lorty@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 1 week ago

EAC can work on linux, but it's on the developer to allow it so

[-] Blisterexe@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 week ago

EAC works fine on linux, it's just fortnite that doesn't work

[-] jaypatelani@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 week ago

Try Fedora Budgie Edition familiar windows layout for operating system.

[-] kekmacska@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 week ago

i tried Fedora 40 lxqt in vm, and it was a huge disappointment. openSUSE kde and Garuda KDE are much better. However, my laptop as it seems is totally incompatible with linux kernel, due to its highly propriatry hardware. MSI Gf63 Thin 9sc

[-] boonhet@lemm.ee 1 points 1 week ago

Was your issue with Fedora or lxqt?

The latter is pretty spartan. I could see it being disappointing compared to Plasma.

[-] kekmacska@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 week ago

specifically my biggest beef was with dnf. Very few packages and uninstalling stuff is pretty hard that is not installed with it.

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