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PC Gamer: "I'm brave enough to say it: Linux is good now, and if you want to feel like you actually own your PC, make 2026 the year of Linux on (your) desktop" (www.pcgamer.com)
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[–] Mgineer@lemmy.ml 4 points 9 months ago (2 children)

I tried. I really tried. I think i sent through 3 different distros. But my gpu doesn't like any of them also playnite isn't on linux yet

[–] 4am@lemmy.zip 2 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Which GPU

[–] wilmo@lemmy.ml 6 points 9 months ago

Nvidia obviously

[–] Mgineer@lemmy.ml 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Nvidia

[–] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Try CachyOS or Bazzite and do not stray from defaults. If it suggests you use the legacy Nvidia driver, you say "yes sir" and do as it says.

A huge fraction of linux trouble comes from picking a distro with bad defaults, or messing with good defaults.

playnite

It seems they are planning to move: https://github.com/JosefNemec/Playnite/issues/59#issuecomment-3542246599

I'm planning to move to Linux in 2026 after P11 is done, and since Playnite is my personal blocker for the move, I will try to make some Linux version in 2026. Definitely not fully featured version on parity with Windows version of P11, and probably desktop mode only, but something daily drivable with Linux specific features (Wine/Proton integration for example).

If that goes well, I'll start looking into P11 Avalonia porting proper say I mentioned in previous update.

[–] meldrik@lemmy.wtf 2 points 9 months ago

It’s more interesting to ask which 3 distros was tried 😁

[–] pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip 1 points 9 months ago

It happens. Particularly shitty proprietary hardware has held me back from upgrading in the past, as well. It is what it is.

I hope we see more mainstream support for Linux by hardware vendors in the next few years.

It's really mostly a labeling problem. Even vendors who have great processes to publish drivers can't seem to be bothered to slap a Linux Mint sticker on the box.