The year of Linux!
this post was submitted on 02 Nov 2025
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Is Battefield 6 supported? That is the only thing fully getting off Windows
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I've tried playing Steam games, but my hard drives are all NTFS and the Linux (Mint) partition is exFat, and it seems like they don't play nicely together. Since i don't want to move all my steam games to an exFat partition, I'm holding off on switching. But until I get around to overhauling my storage and go single drive, I'm gonna stick with Windows using as many FOSS apps as possible.
Linux on exfat?! Do you mean ext4?
When I switched over my home desktop to Mint, it was a very short time before I looked at Windows and said "I'm too old for this shit." I mean, the reason I am a Mint fan in the first place is that I am a FOSS loving nerd but with a family and pets and hobbies and a career and a middle aged energy level. The decades I've spent fixing Windows based PCs is enough for a lifetime, thx.
I say consolidate old files you want to keep. Shuffle them between drives as necessary to be able to format everything. Go all ext4 on the drives you already have. (once you're ready)
This is the way.
I feel you. I have my old PC with quiet an "ancient" chipset. Installed an NVMe and installed Linux on it... Just to find out that my AHCI controller isn't supported by it with all my Windows hard drives. It's either booting that NVMe with the Linux one or booting the deprecated Windows ones from BIOS. 12-13 years of reliable hardware... :/ Hope there is a kernel patch supporting it again
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It's the year of the Linux hand held desktop
I’m dual booting with Windows because of a project I’m finishing that would be difficult to move OS, but Cachy is now my gaming OS. It’s nice to move away from the “forced” behavior from Windows.
Tangentially, a few UI decisions felt locked-in on Ubuntu and Mint too; or at least I couldn’t find an easy way to change them. I’m still a little annoyed my scroll wheel changes form options but it’s a minor thing.