Wow, I've been running Linux for 14 years already?
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I'm the only computer user in my house. My son is starting to show interest, but only because of Minecraft, which also runs on Linux.
Just tossing this out there, if your son hasn't seen it yet, show him Portal. I showed it to my son when he was starting to get into computers and its still one of his favorites in college.
Show him The Stanley Parable. Prepare him for his future
Haha, yes, he has played that one quite a bit!
I don't know if this still holds but, my experience is that minecraft works arguably better on linux
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You can show him the wonders of 3rd party FOSS linux minecraft launchers like polymc.
You can also be a good parent and not introduce him to a modded gaming addiction.
This is like the trolley prolem all over again.
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Switch over to Luanti instead of Minecraftπ
the only computer user?!
Yeah, my wife does everything on her phone.
oof.
(I say, as though I don't use my phone 4x more than my laptop, which is honestly a bad habit I need to break because programming on phone suuucks.)
My son was convinced to use Linux by wobbly windows.
Although he does have a second SSD now with Windows to be able to play the big popular multiplayer game of the day with his friends. But they are back on Minecraft often enough.
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You can, and there are ways to do it safely... but you probably shouldn't.
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Sadly I had to install Windows 10 iot ltsc on a laptop I own.
I tried to install linux. Several distros. But I always ran into de same issue. I was unable to install nvidia drivers. Which was weird, because that laptop have been on linux a few years prior and I clearly recall installing nvidia drivers without any issues.
So I dug into the problem. And it seems that some new linux kernel had issues with older nvidia drivers, so most, if not all, distros dropped support for that old driver. Only given solution was to run some old lts distro. But por instance mint lts will end on 2027.
At the same time everything worked just fine on that version of windows that have support until 2032.
And, not, the laptop is not that usable with nouveau drivers, as those are incapable of doing hardware acceleration, so everything runs slower, specially games, but it can be noticed even in just the DE.
So it's weird. That in order to keep old hardware around I need to use Windows, because linux dropped support for this particular older hardware earlier than windows.
I know it's just an exception, and that is mostly Nvidia's fault. But I had to do what I had to do.
Still running linux on other of my machines though.
Oh dam, I just watched a vid yesterday about the different distros "Every Linux Distro Explained in 13 minutes" (obviously very very superficial) I'll see if I can find it in my history and post a link to it for you. there were at least 1 or 2 for "really old" hardware. I will change the name to a link when I get to my pc
Edit: added link
Is there no option to use the igpu? Or you need the dgpu for some reason?
You can run a new distro with an old kernel, I used to do that with slackware. you can get similar 10 year support (after kernel.org lts ends) for the kernel if you take it from rhel/rocky linux
It is, same as nouveau drivers. But with a loss in performance, because not gpu hardware acceleration.
The computer runs and linux with nouveau will be its final destiny. But as for now there are some games I play that are just on the edge that run very well with hardware acceleration but sluggish with igpu or nouveau.
I will have to look into the new distro/old kernel thing. It may be a solution.
How old are we talking? The nvidia open-source drivers dropped support for everything prior to the 20-series i think? but the closed-source nvidia drivers still support older cards.
2013 I think. It's a 710M laptop gpu. The needed driver is the 390 something like that. Both fedora and ubuntu based distro had dropped support for it. I tried manual installation but indeed it failed because it doesn't seems to play nice with the kernel.
If you're new to Linux, then NixOS may be outside your comfort zone, but nixpkgs does enable simple patch set integration for legacy Nvidia drivers for use with recent kernels. You could try enabling the 390 config option from a NixOS desktop install, or fetch and apply the appropriate patch from aurPatches source yourself from a different distro for a corresponding kernel version:
Thanks! I'll look into that.
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I run a GTX 980 Ti; Maxwell architecture is still supported for three years. Older than that: Kepler support ended last year and Fermi support ended in 2023, and they won't play nice with kernels released since then.
Is there a good way to figure out what games do and don't work on Linux beyond just playing them? I use steam.
This is a great place to check out. https://www.protondb.com/
Thanks
Also if it's even remotely compatible with steam deck then you can usually assume it's at least playable on any linux distro.
Protondb
really the only thing that gives us trouble on linux these days are brand new AAA's where the publisher is sometimes Linux-hostile or occasionally certain E-sports
if you run a John Deere tractor or a Cricut you might have to learn Docker
Bauldurβs Gate 3 works and Rimworld works so thatβs really all that matters.
My understanding is the biggest issue is kernel level anti-cheat. I've never had a game fail to play well for me, but i also don't play stuff like battlefield or destiny or FIFA or whatever.
Worst bug I've had is War Thunder having a 5-second freeze at the start of ground realistic battles. But that's just bad support for the Linux client.
Other issues I've seen the most is forcing dedicated GPU (run parameters fix, e.g. DRI_PRIME=XXX) and connectivity with indie games on steam which is usually fixed with changing proton version, ensuring dedicated gpu, etc.
In the end, Finnish Cottage Simulator runs with proton 9.4 and that's the only game you will ever need.
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I was on windows 11 for a while. So long windows. Your ass is now grass that will feed a unicorn.
Windows XP flashbacks
my biggest concern is getting vr to work on Linux reliably. if not for that I'd have switched long ago.
That was the reason I installed win11 some time ago, only to realise that wmr would only work on 10, but after updates that wasn't the case either.., Linux it is then
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What Headset are you using? I use ALVR and find it as reliable as Windows was.
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Take it offline
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