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Those who've switched to Linux in the last year, how is it going? (discuss.online)
submitted 1 week ago by kiol@discuss.online to c/linux@lemmy.world
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cross-posted from: https://discuss.online/post/34247715

Curious on the experiences of those recently migrating to Linux from Windows 10, Intel-based MacOS, etc. How is it being on Linux? Anything surprise or frustrate you?

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[–] DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I want people on Nvidia hardware. None of this AMD shit. I already know AMD works great on Linux

[–] SirActionSack@aussie.zone 2 points 6 days ago

Tumbleweed with a GTX1650. It's fine.

[–] xvertigox@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Ive been running Cachy on my rig with a 4080 Super and it works mint. With Cachy's rolling releases I get all the driver updates asap so I have all this latest features.

No weird issues running games or software (incl hardware encoding on handbrake).

Hmu if you have any questions or want me to test something.

[–] DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Huh! Well that is refreshing thank you.

Any reason why you're not using bazite? That's the gamer one that I hear the most about

[–] xvertigox@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

At the time it was a toss up between Cachy and Nobara and I, luckily, picked Cachy. I've had a great experience with Cachy and haven't had the urge to change.

Bazzite seemed more focused on handheld/controller based devices so it wasn't really a contender for me.

Cachy is the #1 most viewed/active distro on https://distrowatch.com/ and has heaps of users so it feels well supported to me.

I'm a fan of the idea of rolling releases so I can get the latest and greatest more so than an atomic/immutable distro.

It really doesn't matter which one you pick as your first distro, any well supported distro with good nvidia support will be sweet.

[–] DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I see Cachy is arch

..that's a bit scary for a newcomer like me

[–] xvertigox@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago

Yeah, fair enough. Go for any distro and use KDE and you'll be allg.

[–] MCHEVA4EVA@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Running arch BTW with a 4080 figuring out how to install the drivers was fine. I run a 240hz 1440p with hdr no issues. Haven't done a ton of gaming ran guardians of the galaxy because it was fairly new no issues. This is on kde, I have some issues with kde because my initial install I used cinnamon then swapped to kde its caused some instability going to do a reinstall sometime soon.