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[–] Sanctus@lemmy.world 23 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] UprisingVoltage@feddit.it 15 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

I'm jumping on the mint ship during the holidays. See you never windows!

[–] Sanctus@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

Every penguin is an ally!

[–] ShitOnABrick@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Enjoy I use mint 21.1 Victoria 21.1 xfce on my gaming laptop myself

Little tip make a second drive with a backup so that if it ever gets a bit to complicated you'll have something to come back to also you could duel boot as well if you need windows for work or smth although tbh I hardly have any issues with mint it normally works outside the box . Mints an all-round decent distro in my expirence

I also recommend you install neofetch onto your system when you do install Linux you can customise neofetch to look however you want you can also rice neofetch as well

sudo apt install neofetch

https://github.com/dylanaraps/neofetch

[–] UprisingVoltage@feddit.it 1 points 2 years ago

Thanks for the tips! I've actually been using mint on my work pc for two years now and I love it, no problems whatsoever.

Now it's time to jump ship on my gaming pc as well. So excited about it!

[–] Oha@lemmy.ohaa.xyz 1 points 2 years ago
[–] ChewTiger@lemmy.world 19 points 2 years ago

My positive experience with my Steam Deck got me to take the plunge and now I'm happily gaming on Mint.

[–] foobaz@lemmy.world 17 points 2 years ago

I'm doing my part!

[–] whats_all_this_then@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

2024 is gonna be the year of the Linux desktop, I can feel it!

[–] mlg@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Wayland on its way to wreck everything because of compatibility and funni Nvidia drivers

[–] Defaced@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

I've been running Wayland for a while on my amd rig and haven't had any problems with xwayland in regards to compatibility. Nvidia on the other hand is problematic but the drivers seem to be improving with every release.

[–] feminalpanda@lemmings.world 7 points 2 years ago

I'm doing my part. Had a 2nd desktop worth of parts and put latest Ubuntu on it, trying out games that I have already installed on Windows. Once my game pass sub expires next year I'll probably fully switch over.

[–] maxxxxpower@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 years ago

Just made the switch to Linux Mint today. It has been fairly easy and painless thus far.

I'm doing my part!

[–] onlinepersona@programming.dev 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I'm genuinely concerned about https://github.com/Whisky-App/Whisky (wine for mac). If they make games run well on mac, there'll be less of a chance for mac users to want to switch to linux in order to game.

And when windows users get burned by windows 12, they'll most likely switch to a Mac if gaming works on it.

[–] Wilzax@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago

Given just how good apple's SOCs have gotten, more power to them if that's what they want. If they're willing to switch to apple they were never seriously interested in linux.in the first place

[–] woelkchen@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The GPU portion of the M chips is still crap by comparison to what AMD offers. The CPU part they genuinely deserve credit for but that's it.

[–] onlinepersona@programming.dev 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Who knows, maybe they'll all of a sudden decide to invest in that if Maccies find out they can play games, but are unsatisfied with the performance. Anything can happen.

[–] woelkchen@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

From what I've heard the GPU in the newest, most expensive iPhones is okay and a good step up but the chip in Macs is basically the same as in iPhones, just more cores, more memory, and not power constrained because of cooling. I think it's pretty clear that Apple develops these for iPhone first and Macs are just an afterthought.

[–] onlinepersona@programming.dev 1 points 2 years ago

If that's the case, then there is no danger - for now. But if Apple's CEO wakes up on the wrong side of the bed and says "I want to tear up the gaming industry", he totally could.

[–] CucumberFetish@lemmy.wtf 1 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Looking to reinstall Linux on my dual-boot. For legacy robotics reasons, I still have ubuntu 18.04 on it.

Which distro would be the best for gaming + CUDA software dev?

[–] bighatchester@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

I recommend Ubuntu 22 don't recommend pop despite all the articles you will find saying it is great for gaming

[–] voodooattack@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I’m using Fedora and it’s been great, a bit iffy with nVIDIA out of the box though.

OpenSUSE Tumbleweed has the most up to date nVIDIA stack. Mainly because the packages are controlled by nVIDIA directly.

[–] CucumberFetish@lemmy.wtf 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I'll check out Tumbleweed. Any downsides to it compared to Ubuntu forks?

It has been a while, but nVidia drivers have always been a pain to install, especially when you also need an older version of CUDA. If tumbleweed has a better compatibility/easier installation process, it is a big win.

[–] voodooattack@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

Tumbleweed is rolling release (kinda like arch), although they have a pretty rigorous testing process. So that could be a pro or a con depending on who you’re asking.

If what you’re specifically after is older CUDA toolkit compatibility, then I’d recommend using distrobox instead. That’s what I do for ML workloads. (If you plan on redistributing binaries then you’ll have to strip them with binutils though)

[–] Linus_Torvalds@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

Honestly: Any Ubuntu Fork (such as Mint, Kubuntu, etc) is fine, Arch as well(but harder). Vanilla Ubuntu is ok.

This is not the definitive answer, and you should reevaluate after a time, what you like and don't like, but for a starter, give those a spin.

[–] kariboka@bolha.forum 2 points 2 years ago

Check out Garuda