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This was inspired by debian guy on the same community you can check out his story here i hope i aint stealing anything

Why did i decided to move to linux?
Windows is getting slower with win11 + the microsoft recall thing, (tho windows 10 solved this issue. am prob gonna fully switch linux once windows 10 ends support, and i dont think windows 12 is gonna be any better and idk why am considering buying macos as a secondary os.) and also Linux gives you more frames as well in gaming.

The story:
So i wanted to try Linux, the first distro i ever used if you count is Ubuntu, i hardly used it in the vm, but really it was Linux mint, i loved the speed,simplicity,etc i would download distros on my brothers laptop when he takes my gaming pc bcs how windows 11 is slow on his laptop i also used tails os(on my main pc) and some nix (didnt like Nixos config when i was new) and i used Tails os as well and i didnt know why discord isnt working :) i found my favorite distro: Cachyos ,some grauda linux (a little bloated sadly i only used it for 2 days before switching back to cachyos since A nvidia driver problem has been solved), btw i also tried building regular arch, and use bazzite but regular arch was too hard + building regular arch is hard i also love the aur, And i also tried blendos yeah the installer kept overriding the usb :P.

My main Pc specs i used linux on:
intel I3 12100f
Gtx 1650
16gb of ram (Originally 8gb but suddenly the other 8gb stick decided it wants to work again after Distrohopping to Cachyos)

The laptop specs(used on Linux Mint and Nixos):
i3 115g1
4gb ram
integrated graphics

How is my experience going:
Its alright. but i wish app support improves ngl, below is my experience with (more?) apps and games.


Gaming:
Its not that bad most of my library on steam works fine under proton AND natively, and i didn't test my epic games library, but sadly i suffered with some games:
Roblox (I can use sober but no thanks, dont wanna use a android emu to play roblox, but ngl i wanna quit roblox due to the moderation thingy, its a fun game tho on my dualbooted windows ssd.)
~~Fortnite~~ (The anticheat. not a problem anymore, i quit it too boring. i would dual boot windows to play Roblox/and this game as well.) Gmod (I need to run a script to fix it but it rarely happens for me and when am in game no problems so far)
Beam.NG drive (Lags on some maps and i need x11 to play it with Vulkan render and native linux build that is hidden in the files no steam integration and you cannot add mods due to a "network issue" but ig firewall? due to Cachyos auto enabling that.)
Discord (Idk if this counts as gaming but i bearly had any problems except with streaming i rarely stream so its fine)
fact ig: On my previous Lemmy account, when i instance hopped. i even ask help with gaming.


Nvidia:
Tbh its not that horrible like people call(+The linux creator) Nvidia, its actually good on linux (even on Wayland)


Web dev:
I like to web dev my personal site on Vscode and thats on Linux, Nothing to say here its going great. and i use git to publish it to codeberg and it will be displayed on the world wide web.


Content creation:
Tbh i never really tried it, bcs am too lazy to make videos on Odysee/Peertube and originally youtube, But sadly affinity is not on Linux(I can use photopeas once my 6month trial of affinity ends), they say its hard and they had struggles porting it from mac to windows as well. and Davinci resolve(Which i used on windows) its not that bad like people say. but sadly there is no AAC support, but Mp3 is supported, Tho i had way more trouble on fedora i needed distrobox.


small issues with some apps (all catagories)
Whatsapp(Tbh i can use the web version i rarely/almost never call people on whatsapp)

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[–] Mwa@lemm.ee 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

oh yeah i tried bazzite before dont like the immutable nature and now i have more experience in linux and tbh i like cachyos gaming tweaks its based arch and stuff and i also forgot i tried building regular arch before i also love how cachyos gives the aur without having to build arch yourself and ik tails os is made for privacy i use it for tor also thanks for reminding me to uppdate some stuff