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Very positively surprised by how seamless the switch from Windows was (feddit.org)

submitted 2 days ago by truthfultemporarily@feddit.org to c/linux_gaming@lemmy.world

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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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[–] afaix@lemmy.world 17 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Step 5. Watch it reboot overnight and download even more useless bloat

[–] endeavor@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Oh and step 7: Spend 10 minutes quitting, restarting discord and then restarting your pc to fix innumerable and common audio bugs caused by terrible windows drivers.

[–] afaix@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Oh yeah, and every restart takes 10 minutes of “preparing updates”

[–] endeavor@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 day ago

Or quit out of your game to restart and install updates.