The beloved lightweight distro
I've been debating making the switch for a long time, but after spending like a week researching Proton, Lutris etc. on Linux, I decided to try it out and nuked my entire Windows 11 drive. :)
So far, every game I threw at it works perfectly fine, including Elden Ring & Cyberpunk.
I had to spend a little time troubleshooting some small issues but it's part of the fun!
Specs are in the neofetch, my compositor / WM is Wayfire (Wayland) :)
C'mon you've ditched windows but your wallpaper is full of them... /s
Whoo!!! Congrats, that looks great!
Thank you!! It's not all my doing (the ricing), it's based on some dotfiles from the creator of Archcraft :)
No shame in that! Code was made to be reused and repurposed, and I'm impressed at how quickly you've gotten into modifying your dotfiles! Cheers and welcome to the Linux community!
Thank you! Wayfire's ini file is very easy to understand, and rather straigthforward, so is the documentation for it. It's my first time using a WM and I'm never going back to standard DE's, my workflow is so much faster!
Installed Linux on my gaming rig, now it's a rig.
Welcome to the Linux community, friend!
Thank you! It’s cozy here :)
Gaming on Linux has improved so much it's come to the point I only need windows for one game, that game being beamng.drive, and the only reason I ztill need windows for it is because for complicated reasons (that only the Dev team fully understands) the windows build runs like shit on proton, and the multiplayer mod for it won't run on Linux, or at least haven't figured out a way to make it run. Everything else? Perfect
Happy to have more Linux gamers on board
I know it's not perfect yet, which is why when i built my PC, I went with Windows (I'm usually a Linux & macOS user), even if I didn't want to. I didn't want to waste my 2,000$ gaming PC by not being able to game well. Well, I'll eat my words because it runs all my games perfectly fine. I just need to figure out Skyrim modding with MO2 but I'm told it works :)
Hopefully all your games work fine someday!
Nuking your windows drive and not dual booting is a very brave decision. Not having another OS (where you know the way) waving at you makes the Linux learning experience much more rewarding.
For sure. I wanted to dual boot at first but I had multiple partitions and drives formatted as NTFS. Plus my EFI partition was too small.
I would have needed to nuke everything anyways, create a neat partition table, install windows again, then install Arch. And then I know you get issues like the time being messed up, Bluetooth can be fudged too. I decided to just try this for a few weeks and see how it goes. :)
@MrShelbySan Sorry to be that person, but... Source on the wallpaper? It looks very nice.
EDIT: looks like https://twitter.com/HHibikitsuki (not sure it's reverse search)
I still have a windows partition out of habit (a Steam partition, really) despite running Linux as my main system for 30 years or so.
However, it's now been ages since I've had to boot windows to run something. It all runs fine in Linux nowadays.
Maybe I'll stop waiting to need it and just add an extra XFS or whatever disk to my system one of those days.
Congrats! If you haven't already, don't be afraid to distro-hop or spin up VMs with virt-manager to test out other flavors of Linux and/or Desktop Environments. I would stick to opinionated configurations while you're starting out, since you probably don't know what exactly you like yet.
If you ever have questions, check the wiki before using search engines, because it usually has the recommended way of doing things and sometimes information online can even get outdated.
Hey there! I've tried many distros in the past and always come back to Arch :) I'm pretty familiar with how it works, where to find information, the AUR, etc.! Thanks!
That's a nice config you have there and despite what others say, Arch is an excellent choice for starter. Have a nice ride!
Thank you. For sure, I could recommend Arch to beginners. I used to recommend Ubuntu but I'm not so sure about it anymore, it seems to have gone corporate with Caninocal's "Ubuntu One" etc. Linux Mint is also another distro I'd recommend to beginners.
Are you on Nvidia and if so how do you make it not suck? I feel like preformance has gotten worse not better over the years. The exact same games with the same settings preform much worse for me on Linux.
No unfortunately I'm not buying a Radeon I need the Nvidia for work.
Nope I’m full AMD. I’m not entirely sure how NVIDIA works on Linux. I just know it doesn’t work well with Wayland. And fair enough for not buying AMD. Personally, I would do some research, try some things, but I’m really not familiar with NVIDIA card I’m afraid :(
My dude, read the neofetch
AMD ATI Radeon RX 5600 OEM/5600 XT
The what? Oh the tiny ass text in the image on my phone that I didn't see.
Yeah, guys. Can someone please share their experience with Arch and Nvidia? I’m looking to switch for quite some time now, because Windows is just a bloated confusion of an OS, but I always hear that Nvidia drivers are a piece of garbage on Linux. How true is this and can you do something about it?
I'm running Arch on my Tuxedo Stellaris 17 laptop with a 3070 and I have basically no issues except I haven't managed to properly run Sway. But Hyprland and XFCE work great, and so do Steam games.
I'm in Nvidia EndevourOS (archbased) installed it with KDE X11, honestly didn't see any issues with it, the only real downside is that you don't have the profile manager per 3D app like on windows. Neither do you have Reflex, other than that everything works well.
Beautiful build! I heard people talking about gaming on linux but actually seeing you talking about running triple A games that weren't made with linux in mind made me get filled with joy, I can't wait to play Stray.
Thank you! I was super excited too when i did my research :) And Stray is actually what I'm playing right now ! I'm seeing some slight stutters but I haven't configured anything or tried other Proton versions yet.
Always happy to see another user join the ranks of gamers on Linux. I've been gaming for years now since proton came. The fact that it's just a checkbox in steam to use proton is fantastic.
I wish, but all I play right now is Diablo IV and COD:MW2 (2023 version) and neither works on Linux. Maybe in the 2030s.
Hmm, what issues did you have with D4 on Linux? That's been my preferred way of playing it since the beta.
Not sure about MW2 unfortunately though.
The last time I bothered to try was a few years ago. I didn't realize it was possible to install Battle.net now. I'll have to take another look at it on my laptop with Manjaro installed.
Steam has been working perfectly for me (except Anti-Cheat stuff) Some other titles (especially League of Legends) still don't work reliable for me. (If you know League, it can be a little ... frustrating)
I don't play it by my boyfriend does. There's a whole community over at /c/leagueoflinux that might be able to help!
I love the background! Have you got a link to it?
Original artist: https://www.pixiv.net/en/artworks/94853837
Thank you for crediting the artist for me! I uploaded it to imgur because I couldn't find the original. :(
Check out saucenao. Reverse search on steroids, it is excellent for solving exactly this problem.
