I did it. For a few years now I’ve wanted to make the jump but lazyness and a bit of worry that my main game wouldn’t work very well kept me from it.

Then some effing windows update caused ridiculous stuttering on games (or maybe it was a auto-update of some other hidden thing, I couldn’t figure it out) so I decided that if I needed a system wipe, might as well as try gaming on linux.

Honestly? Much easier than I expected. Install Steam, turn two options on and 90% of your library is ready to go. I had to tinker with getting freesync to work (ended up just switching to wayland, which just worked) but other than the plugins I use for my main game requiring a bit of more work, smooth as butter really.

So yeah, if you are a lazy gamer like I am, next time you do a system wipe or get a new computer, try installing linux first. Don’t even bother Dual booting it, if you don’t like it just reinstall (setup your usb drive with ventoy and the images you want to try out.)

  • @SapphironZA
    2•24 days ago

    Nice! I wish my issues were limited to those fixable ones.

    I have issues with sound card SPDIF not working and Bluetooth on the intel WiFi card not wanting to switch on. Both known bugs with no fixes in the pipeline.

    Will need to wait for my next PC upgrade in 5 years time.

    I got about 15% better minimum frame rates under Linux and only one of my recent games had issues with anti-cheat.

    • @[email protected]English
      3•24 days ago

      Have you been able to try a more recent kernel version? It may have improvements in the driver situation.

      • @SapphironZA
        2•24 days ago

        Even 6.9 does not have the fix yet. Seems one of the two bugs is on roadmap for 6.11

          • @SapphironZA
            2•24 days ago

            Intel ax211 was the first one. Ax210 had same problem, as did the ax411.

            But the bug has something to do with how the motherboard initializes the devices.

            They all work fine in other laptops

            • @[email protected]English
              1•24 days ago

              I have the ax210 installed. Interesting. Is this an intel chip on this mobo? I wonder if you’re running out of PCI address space to map the devices as there have been some changes to how this work in the kernel. You migth try intel_iommu=off as a shot in the dark if it’s not getting detected at all, if you have an intel chip. Does lspci see the device at all?

              • @SapphironZA
                1•23 days ago

                It’s an AMD machine, lspci sees the devices. It just can seem to initialize it, sometimes. Every now and again it just starts working if the machine was unpowered for a few days.

    • @[email protected]
      2•24 days ago

      Just a thought, you could try getting a new Wi-Fi/Bluetooth card or just a USB dongle. Should be in the $10 usd range

      • @SapphironZA
        1•24 days ago

        I tried 3 Different models. Seems it’s actually a motherboard issue. The same WiFi cards work fine with fedora in my laptop.