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Today, I switched the last of my Windows machines to Linux: my gaming PC. I've been using Linux on servers for many years but was a bit apprehensive for gaming.

Turns out it just... works. Just installed steam and turned proton on, have zero performance or other issues. I'm using Ubuntu 25.04 for the 6.14 kernels NT emulation performance tweaks. Aside from there not being a catalyst driver for it and so I can't undervolt my card everything is great.

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[–] CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 26 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Just in case you didn't know, odd numbered Ubuntu versions (in your case 25) are considered short term releases and won't be maintained beyond a year or two.

Unless you really need that version, you'll want to install 26 when it comes out next April (upgrade should be very seamless).

Even numbered versions are supported long term, often for several years.

[–] truthfultemporarily@feddit.org 14 points 1 week ago (2 children)
[–] pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip 18 points 1 week ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (3 children)

You made the right call, for your situation.

They're just letting you know that you will want to apply each annual upgrade when they come out, to ensure your system stays secure.

This may contrast with any Ubuntu-running friends you may have, who may not be applying updates annually.

Once you've upgraded to ~~28 (in ~ 2028)~~ 26.04, you can safely skip the next four years of upgrades, if you feel like it, because ~~28~~ it will ~~(probably)~~ be the next Long Term Support (LTS) release.

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[–] yoevli@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Assuming you're playing games through Proton rather than vanilla Wine, kernels before 6.14 already have fsync which is used by Proton and effectively does the same thing as ntsync.

[–] truthfultemporarily@feddit.org 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Good info, but I guess I just upgrade my way to 2604

Don't get too hung up on it. It was an fyi not a "stop what you're doing you newb!"

We need people to test the latest, bleeding edge. So you're helping with that! But since you're new to Linux I wanted to make sure you knew what you were getting yourself into.

It's not that odd numbers are less stable. It's more that they aren't supported for long term. Many of the lessons learned are pushed to the next version though so either way you're doing good.

I'm not a PC gamer so for me stamina and longevity matter more to me than bleeding edge technology.

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[–] criticon@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Can't you just upgrade to the next release? (It's been more than 10 years since I installed/used Ubuntu)

Unless you really need that version, you'll want to install 26 when it comes out next April (upgrade should be very seamless).

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[–] user224@lemmy.sdf.org 17 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Holy hell, the Ubuntu ISO is 6.3GB now. Soon it may not even fit onto a DL DVD.

[–] cRazi_man@europe.pub 10 points 1 week ago (3 children)

How many floppies is that?

[–] don@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 week ago

One, at least.

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[–] daggermoon@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Good thing there's BD-Rs

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[–] towerful@programming.dev 16 points 1 week ago

Yeh, Linux doesn't have to be scary these days.

[–] the_q@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 week ago

Welcome and enjoy!

[–] Pofski@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I personally live linix, and I am trying switching over in the house in such a way that the rest of the household can use it with as little issues as possible. That being said, I need to ask for some help with a couple of programs that are vital for us but that I am having a hard time to replace. If anybody has any suggestion for the following I would really be grateful. -fusion 360 -lychee slicer (i can install it but unable to make holes in hollowed out forms) -copy to usb for big files without the system crashing (copy stops)

  • printer keeps disappearing after some time.
  • label printer setup
[–] Attacker94@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I would recommend making your own post to get more help. On the cad side of things the alternatives are free cad, on shape, or blender; I don't have that much experience with them, but just based on my fusion experience, I would assume they can all do the same things, just in completely different ways since fusion had it's own special way for literally everything.

[–] lightnsfw@reddthat.com 2 points 1 week ago (6 children)

FreeCAD certainly looks like it does most of the CAD stuff I need but I have yet to get it to run well enough to be usable on any of the 3 systems I've tried it on (hardware that runs fusion fine). I don't know what people are doing to make it work but I can't figure it out.

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[–] MuttMutt@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

Made the switch myself about a year ago. Installed 24.04 LTS and it has done very well.

My main issues have been dealing with a few things I run not playing the nicest with ubuntu or when trying to flash ESP8266 or ESP32 boards through the web browser.

Gaming wise everything I have installed via Steam works fine though sometimes needs a reboot.

Overall been happy with it and glad to get off the forced upgrade with bloatware train.

[–] Vince@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Any issues with brand new releases or has all that been figured out?

I will always have to check protondb.

https://www.protondb.com/

[–] afaix@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

Valve takes care for brand new stuff on steam usually, except for kernel anticheat stuff where they can’t fix it.

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