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Set up dual boot with Pop! OS to give it a try and overall my experience is pretty positive.
There are a few things that are bothering me. For example, any time the system wakes from sleep, Firefox can no longer load new pages. Anything that was open prior to sleep works until I attempt to open anything new in that tab, and any new tab just refuses to do anything at all
I also miss HDR when I'm gaming. I ran cyberpunk for about a week in Linux and was pleasantly surprised that it ran just fine. Then I had to hit into windows for something work related and launched the game there after I was done... HDR makes a huge impact with my monitor and I didn't realize how much it did until it was gone.
It isn't super smooth to configure yet, but it should be possible to use HDR. Have you tried that?
I was never one for HDR so I never even paid attention when I bought my monitor, switched to Bazzite and was surprised KDE supports HDR.
Firefox is still an issue on Bazzite, but PopOS came with some really weird sleep issues where it would sometimes even require a good kernel kill. That may have been something with having installed for an Nvidia card and changing to AMD.
I'm a programmer and have switched to NixOS, because I can define all my configurations in code+git repo, which is great. I now have a single repo that has some parts that are shared, and some parts are host-specific (one desktop + 2 laptops, for now), and if I fix some bug (like my Samsung 990 Pro SSDs having Linux issues), I know it'll be permanently fixed, instead of having to re-figure everything out after a reinstallation.
NixOS BTW. We're making it ours.
edit: Steam has been a non-issue, so gaming has been great so far! Not that I've been gaming a ton, but still.
Also, being able to use an LLM to fix stuff for me in my nixcfg repo has been great - I would NOT have been as productive with NixOS had I not have had Codex.
As things currently stand, I'm happy with my setups. I'm using Kubuntu at work and on my gaming/general purpose PC at home, and Mint on my server. There's a part of me that wants to hop the server across to Kubuntu as well, just because it's what I'm more familiar with now, but I don't really touch the server that much, and it's currently working without any issues, so I figure I'm better off leaving it well alone.
In terms of work; 99% of what I use my PC for is stuff that LibreOffice is fine for, so it's solid. That'll change in the next few months, as the company shifts from local MS Office to O365, so I've set up WinBoat in preparation. Not massively happy about how much RAM Windows is going to chew up, so once it goes live I'll do more research into running O365 as FireFox webapps. Again, not ideal, but until MS gives us a Linux-native port of O365, it's the best I can do.
Gaming-wise, I've been pleasantly surprised at how well it works - once it's set up. My gaming PC is my partner's old machine, so it's specced with an Nvidia GTX 1060 - a GPU that still has a surprising amount of utility. The drivers have given me some issues, but all in all, it's great. Coupled with Sunshine, I can happily play lower spec or older games on my MacBook through Moonlight while sitting on the sofa, or I can stream to my Apple TV. Red Dead Redemption 2 looks wonderful, even streamed across the network.
My only real white whale is Apple Music. I've had an AM account since the day it launched in the UK, and use it every day on my GrapheneOS phone, so it's a ballache that my only options for it on Linux are:
- Web App, which doesn't support lossless
- Cider, also doesn't support lossless
- WinBoat, which is still quite buggy and eats up the system's resources
- Waydroid, which works, but again can be quite buggy
But overall, I'm happy with the move. The shift from macOS to macOS/Linux isn't as tricky as from Windows, perhaps, because a lot of the terminal-based stuff is pretty similar, but it's nice to know that my computer isn't at the whim of a cabal of bastards. I have tried Asahi on my MacBook (and the M1 mini I now use as my Home Assistant machine), but ultimately the drawbacks are still slightly too great for me to go all-in on it.
after a terrible time trying to work through a USB/motherboard/speaker/microphone combo issue, it’s been good. working on Bazzite as i have intel/nvidia gear and my pc primarily is for gaming. getting games to run has been as easy as it was on windows.
Switched to Mint a few months ago on my Desktop. I discovered a few issues during my time with it such as waking itself from suspend mode or the headphone jack in my front header not getting picked up, but both issues were fixed with just a bit of searching.
Overall it's a great feeling to be able to just do what I want with my computer and not worry about big corpa messing with me, even if I do expect that things may need to be patched up here and there.