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Have you or someone close to you converted to Linux recently (with Windows 10's end of support)? (lemmy.ca)

submitted 5 days ago by Rentlar@lemmy.ca to c/linux@programming.dev

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I'd like to hear people's journeys and motivations from people who switched over the last few months, and if there were particular challenges that were faced.

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[–] pentastarm@piefed.ca 4 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

Sure! I'd been playing with regular Gnome Ubuntu for a long while. Never really liked Gnome, figured if I had to use it some day I would just deal.

But then, on reddit of all places, I read about KDE, and Kubuntu. I looked at the screenshots and holy hell, it kinda looks like Windows!!

Now.. like, I'm not some sort of windows fangirl here, it's just, they layout with the task bar, start menu, all that jazz makes a whole buncha sense to me. And to see that there was a version of Ubuntu that had that kinda interface fast tracked me into installing it.

I like using Ubuntu too because it seems pretty straight forward and approachable to someone like me, who isn't super great with computers in general, and who certainly doesn't want to spend a bunch of time tinkering with every setting and what not. But I also value my privacy and not funneling money to billionaires...

So now I'm running Kubuntu, and while it's been great, I am running into issues with some of my games I want to play on Steam and using Lutris. So now I'm back to having to tweak shit, and I'm not too happy about it.

I do know of Bazzite, so I may wipe my Kubuntu install to try it. I just, I don't want to be in the same boat again, and go through all of that.

I am also planning on getting a SteamDeck when my bonus from work comes through after the new year, so this may all be moot, as I am hoping to do my Steam/GOG gaming on that.

Edit: I should specify, my laptop has a GTX 1050ti and I guess Nvidia is the bane of linux or something, and is most likely the cause of most of my issues playing games.

[–] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Thanks for sharing your experience. So now that you've tried it, is KDE familiar enough to you? (I did put my parents' now 13 year old PC on KDE for similar reasons).

Good news is that KDE is the front-end interface that is packaged with many distributions (including Bazzite) so you won't lose the basic look and feel if you decide to move.

[–] pentastarm@piefed.ca 3 points 4 days ago (2 children)

It is! I've really been enjoying the KDE experience with Kubuntu!

Initially I tried downloading a few "retro" windows xp/2000 look a like themes, but something got messed up and it wouldn't let me log in? Something with the SDDM. Luckily I had just installed Kubuntu fresh earlier that day, so I hadn't set anything up, so it was easy enough to just reinstall everything, and I've just been sticking with the built in themes and not really messing with anything else lol.

I did see that with Bazzite, which is why I think I'll try it out. I just don't want to go through the whole process, only to end up with the same issues I have now due to, apparently, having a Nvidia GPU in my laptop. I know no one can tell me if I will or won't, and I just have to try it, but that's about my only hesitation.

[–] who@feddit.org 3 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

I prefer KDE Plasma, too. Fortunately, just about every desktop distro has it available even if GNOME or something else is the default. Find out what package to install. (On Debian-based distros, it's probably kde-plasma-desktop.) Install it, log out, and look for a session selector on the login screen. Change it to Plasma before logging in again.

If the same game problems reappear when you're on a different distro, you might want to describe them in detail on a Linux gaming forum. Someone there might be familiar with how to fix them.

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[–] TheMadCodger@piefed.social 1 points 4 days ago

Bazzite should work with your nvidia and everything else. And from the way you described yourself, you may like Bazzite's immutability better, since it's much harder to break than kubuntu is. Just make sure you get the KDE version. I also installed it on my steamdeck and love it.