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Reminder that Linux has never been better than it is right now for gaming!
I'm sooo looking forward to ditch Windows on my gaming station - tomorrow is the day! yay! (on linux for decades, but current gaming station is from 2017 when gaming on linux wasn't that much enjoyable....)
Let us know how it goes!
It went awesome!
CachyOS is so amazing when it comes to installing software, the huge aur, the immense speed of the installations. I don't think the latter should be weighted too much because who cares about a few seconds at install time, but it's still super cool. And I'm sort of entitled to say "I use arch btw" now! yay for that!
The learning curve, coming from debian/ubuntu/QubesOS mainly in the recent years was mild. Learning that pacman offers just a subset of yay etc....
I installed a few "windows only" games from my steam library, all of them worked out of the box and very smooth. Back when I installed steam 4a ago on my laptop I still had to copy some DLL manually and preload some lib to make my favorite game work. No more so.
Even thinking of going CachyOS on my laptop - but as it hardly matters which linux is running there not sure if it's worth the effort.
Using arch now, btw!
I'll start by letting you know how it went, as this beautiful day was originally scheduled for last Tuesday.....
after assembly the box didn't start. just 0.5s of light, minor movement on the CPU fan, then dark. need to disconnect/reconnect power to repeat as power button is without function after first press.
removing basically everything but ram/CPU did not help, so taking out the CPU;
https://drop.geekbox.info/amd.jpg
don't believe that normally only most pads are gold covered 😭
and I had cachyOS already on my USB... new hardware is scheduled for tomorrow.
sorry to abuse your request to whine about that :D
And with the help of Valve, it'll continue to get better. Hoping companies like EPIC also take note and really start adding things to Unreal to really push Vulcan and Linux. Like, I don't want a monopoly or anything, but if big companies make big moves towards supporting Linux, others will follow. ( I know Unreal supports Linux, I'm talking like actively pushing tech, support, pushing for games to be compiled for linux, pushing for native code and not needing compatibility layers, etc.)
Epic has come out and said it won't happen. He's butthurt and childish about it.
GeForce could gaming is a work around. Sometimes laggy. But what game isn't?