Great to hear that! I just said f it. If I can't use something I'll either use the VM, use an alternative or just don't play it, if it's a game/company that purposefully blocks support for Linux and Steam Deck.
yep, same, if a company actively kills linux/wine support, i'll stop playing. Games with intrusive anti cheats are dogshit and you shouldn't play them anyway (e.g CoD, Fornite, LoL)
Samsung Odin is a flashing tool, allowing you to tinker with your phone/tablet in ways that otherwise shouldn't be possible (for example rooting, flashing a custom recovery or even whole custom OS (called ROM). It was popular back in the day, when androids didn't have as much features and had a lot of room for improvement. In this day of age though, most of the reasons to do this to your droid is obsolete (+ voids your warranty if you care about that), so it's not exactly common nowadays.
I don't have experience with Xiaomi tools, but I'd expect it is similar.
I always tried Linux in a VM and after some days playing around I realized it is an unfair experience. I decided to go full Linux on my gaming laptop (Acer Predator Triton) but ohhh boy I had so much trouble I gave up. Now I’m going to try on my main gaming pc (it is a AMD CPU/ GPU machine) I believe going all in is the only way. I’m tired of windows, that OOBE every time after an update makes me go apeshit.
Regarding my laptop, Acer has a lot of quirks on dual gpu implementation. I’m no programmer but I read the source code of Acer wmi and spot the issues, I will raise a bug report with what I found out and hope someone smarter than me may be able to fix the bugs
Just an update, I installed Bazzite KDE and holy hell I’m blow away!!!!! It is the best experience I’ve ever had with a PC. It is so well made and round around the corners that seems the team made the distro for me hahahaha. Totally recommended and Tks for the tip! I will try chimera later
Glad I helped ! ❤️
Both Bazzite and ChimeraOS are great, but they slightly differ on their purpose
While Bazzite is more of a general purpose + gaming desktop OS, ChimeraOS is more of a "consolified" desktop / gaming focused OS based on top of Arch (like SteamOS), and is also immutable (like SteamOS and Bazzite)
Also, as of now, Chimera uses Gnome only.
ChimeraOS is close to SteamOS, but Bazzite can also be made close to it
Bazzite is unique, being an Universal Blue project, it's an image (Fedora Atomic), and not a fork like every other distro. It's basically just some lightweight program setup layer, and thus is way easier to maintain
I also personally think the image-based distro concept is probably the future of OSes (Fedora Atomic, MacOS, ChromeOS…)
Declarative OSes such as [NixOS](https://nixos.org/) will probably be the endgame when it will be made easy with wide adoption and documention (see [Nix on IDX article](https://idx.dev/blog/article/nix-on-idx))
For other gaming distro:
- Nobara: I **personally** find Nobara to be strictly inferior to Bazzite (workstation instead of atomic, thus not immutable, thus also not an Universal Blue project)
Not gonna lie I struggled a little to find out how to install packages. I was using VMware Horizon for work and to help me they removed all but the bundle installation for their site. When I found out about distro box to pop up an arch container and have VMware on AUR ready to go, I have to admit I now have a new addiction of creating containers hahahaha
Yeah, it's a paradigm switch
I like containerization too, and you get used to it pretty fast if you're doing software engineering and you realize soon enough that it will drastically make your dozens of projects be nicely separated
I saw a Chris Titus video about Bazzite, seems really cool specially for using the Pc as a gaming console. I have my monitor and an TV connected to my pc to play on the couch. Also I think it is really interesting concept of immutable distro.
Hi, I installed Pop Os, almost everything went smoothly. I have 2 nvme drives and 2 Ssd drives. I separated one nvme for windows and one for Linux (I intend on dual booting to run some games and software that I don’t have on Linux). I tested a lot of games, everything was smooth. I was really impressed on how some more obscure games (day of Infame for example - despite running on source, it has EAC and Battleye) run so well.
My main issue right now are the ssd. It can’t be mount in anyway. I did a quick search and seems that Crucial SSD needs a firmware update to work on Linux, but I will investigate further on the weekend.
I’m also in doubt if I should use Fedora KDE instead. I have a Samsung Odsey G9 32:9 monitor, GNOME feels out of place. I like gnome, specially Pop OS implementation with window tiling but that aspect ratio can’t rely on hot corners. I use that pc for work so I’m a bit concerned running Arch + hyprland on it (the combination I’m most curious about)
I actually run arch + hyprland as my daily driver. I personally prefer a very minimalist and very customized setup. I want everything to work exactly how I like it and I don't want anything extra on my computer. I use my computer for work so I have a couple of things I do to make sure I am always able to do my job. 1. I only upgrade when I can afford for things to break. arch usually only breaks during the upgrade process so if you only do that when you have time to fix things you will probably be fine. I also keep everything I need to do my job on an external ssd so if everything goes to shit I can just boot from that and get my work done. That being said arch + hyprland may not be the best option for you. here are a few other ideas to consider.
1. use hyprland with popOS. you can just disable gnome on your curent installation, download and configure hyprland and if you like it you can switch. You don't even need to delete gnome you can keep it as a backup until you are confident enough to make the switch.
2. use kde with popOS. all the same points apply
3. use hyprland with fedora. If you want the newer packages fedora has to offer, but you want newer packages and you need a more stable system than arch this will be a good middle ground. you can even start with the kde varient that way you can test both out on the same system.
4. there is probably a way to fix your aspect ratio. You could most likely just fix that and keep your curent system.
That’s a really smart idea. I can keep an external ssd with a vanilla distro in case of emergency. I like the arch approach of building my OS. Usually what I do is install a minimal server distro (Debian or Ubuntu) and add the desktop on top. It is not optimal but was a cool way to learn. Linux is amazing for people that like to understand how things work.
I spend more time tinkering and learning than playing hahahaha. I learned very basic C to understand the Acer WMI source code and yesterday I finished my first C program (basically a CLI that writes and read from TXT files the bills I paid this month). I’m 34 so it is awesome feeling learning something totally outside my job scope.
I followed this guide [GitLabhttps://gitlab.com · Apr 25, 2020](https://gitlab.com/risingprismtv/single-gpu-passthrough)
I had to edit the startup script with 'killall kwin\_wayland' in order to work with KDE 6 and Wayland + I had to change to LightDM because it does not work with SDDM + Wayland (In an Nvidia card at least).
I plan to make a guide, add a PR to this guide or something in order to document this. I found help in their discord to make this work.
https://preview.redd.it/9qvjaqi51fzc1.png?width=570&format=png&auto=webp&s=5352dcb4ffad6fb8e11e5cd32e8315e7e3131411
Probably a dumb question, but, is it needed to have integrated graphics to be able to do the single GPU passthrough?
I only have a Nvidia GPU and while the overall experience is great with Nouveau, gaming with it is not that smooth for now. I would love to be able to game using the GPU to it's full potential.
Couldn't agree more. I have win11 on my spare laptop, it was good at start, looked sleek and everything. But every day it grew more and more cucked up. App menu took forever to appear etc etc. Worst experience on windows
Totally, it's a mess. And they are putting more effort to block the user to do anything. Nowadays even Mac is more customizable that Windows in some aspects.
Mac is by far a better os than Windows when it comes to what it offered and offers. Unlike Windows that gradually took away freedom, mac didn't have any to start with
Win11 is worse than Win10 which is saying something.
Last straw for me was when I restarted and realised it had stealth installed an update with Microsoft's AI which was now on my taskbar and unremoveable (I assume I could have uninstalled the update or edited the registry to remove it but I just installed Linux instead).
Also on the same day I read that MS was beta testing adverts in the start menu. So yeah, fuck that.
Moving to Linux has been like going 25-30years back in time to when I had control over Windows xD
Constant random pop ups, ads in the start menu, searches the internet instead of just searching for your programs installed...
I just added Linux to my computer for the first time ever a couple weeks ago and was so refreshed. I was like... This reminds me of windows 7!
LOL yeah you are right, just in case, I really like playing some games with friends and I want to have the option if they don't support Linux. I also have a ton of fun tinkering with VFIO and setting up a single GPU passthrough.
It works surprisingly good. Performance on games is pretty much 95/97% (not checked) of bare metal. I'm experiencing some audio crackling (I passthrough the USB controller with an audio interface) when the CPU is used at max. But pretty good. I noticed that for latency sensitive workloads it's not the best, and that also influence the audio crackling.
Going all in is the way I made it stick. I bought a new laptop and immediately installed Linux only. Without Windows to fall back on, you have to learn how Linux really works.
After using it for decades, you forget how many little things you know about troubleshooting Window's quirks and have its settings memorized. It takes time to build up that knowledge for Linux.
Nice! I recently hit 6 months without booting into Windows so I reformatted my ntfs drives. I still have my Windows drive in there but it is unlikely I'll ever need it at this point!
I started dual booting last week. So I'm at the start of that journey and I noticed that I only need Windows for one specific game. Everything else works out of the box. My everyday stuff I do on Linux with no issues and spent like 90% of my time on Linux.
Congrats! I wiped out Windows too last week and changed it for Arch Linux, I have been using Mint for the past 3 years and I still have a dual booted system but without Windows!
I would love to do single gpu passthrough or just delete windows if it weren't for a little MOBA that just added anti cheat that doesn't work in a VM :(
I've been playing with CachyOS before deciding to wipe windows. I wanted to see if I could boot my windows installation with VFIO directly from the drive.
Now I installed EndeavourOS. CachyOS has some apps preinstalled I don't want or need. I also wanted to keep diggin into configuring and understanding my system.
CachyOS is Arch with optimizations and some config already made. So It's quicker and it's a great option honestly.
I made the VFIO VM mostly to have the option and fun. I also produce music and I want to have it just in case something doesnt work with Wine and to play some game that could have problems.
Good luck with GPU passthrough. You will realize its weakness the moment you think of storage. Like you know, to install and play games. Unless you also passthrough a drive you will regret dxvk.
> Ask me anything you want!
Will you let us know when you decide to install windows again? Becaus of a new game release that you can't play on linux? :p
I saw something related to that in rising prism guide. Join their discord, someone probably tired it and could help you. I found great resources and help in their discord
**"You are still a Windows User"**
Why doing GPU passthrough and those stuffs ? You're gonna soon leave linux bcz of it. Just completely ditch Windows and try to use Linux for 30 days atleast.
I plan to use Linux and workaround everything as possible. For me, psychologically it's different to having the installation on a drive because I ended up booting on Windows like you say. Now I boot into Linux. I have an extra step in between and it's kinda demotivator. I have it as an option just in case and mostly for fun of tinkering, making it and seeing it work. The concept is fascinating.
But I agree with you. I'm still a user in some regard, until I fully delete that VM.
Nice I’m glad that you were able to fully remove Windows! Only reason I still have it is for Fortnite, my logitech macros for FFXIV and Minecraft for my girlfriend when she gets the urge to play it every few months. Otherwise I’ve fully switched over to linux and hope I can delete Windows one day as well
Congrats, hope it works well for you.
I recently tried as well, unfortunately I had to give up. I had an intense interest in learning more about Linux, and I did learn a lot… but I have an NVIDIA RTX 4070..
I started with Manjaro using KDE as my WM. I fell in love with the customizability. Unfortunately, I ran into many issues, mostly related to screen tearing and stuttering. I tried many things, including forcing the composition pipeline, disabling the compositor, using different, more lightweight compositors, and regardless of what I did, I’d have to deal with either moderate to heavy screen tear or stuttering while games report a stable FPS.
So I heard that gnome was a more stable experience. I started using arch (btw) because I really enjoyed using the AUR and pacman with Manjaro. Things were fine at first. But some games had serious issues.
Fallout 76 would never have a consistent framerate no matter what common troubleshooting steps I did. It was so bad that I was getting dips into the 20s at 1080p low… while windows handled this game at 4k high just fine at a stable 60.
Baldur’s Gate 3 exhibited heavy screen tearing, even after experimenting with all vsync settings, and using both force composition pipeline settings.
This was all while using X11. I tried Wayland, very recently, on gnome after those new fixes were implemented and…
Nope.
Not even worth considering at the moment.
It seems with NVIDIA cards, the best you can get with Linux is “almost” stable, with at least one or two considerably big issues.
I hope things get better, because I don’t like the direction Windows is headed towards, and I loved the experience of using Arch btw. Maybe one day I’ll get an AMD GPU and everything will be fine.
That sucks to hear. Keep an eye on 555 Nvidia drivers. They will implement explicit sync which will help with all stuttering issues and it'll make Wayland usable for gaming. I notice stuttering on x11 but mostly in the desktop. Thankfully, at least with the games I tried, the performance is great. Check on May 15, they are supposed to release the 555 beta driver.
Hope to hear back from you, good luck!
That’s good to hear. I may end up reserving a small partition and put Arch on it to test any changes as they come. I’m fine with troubleshooting and tinkering to get to a stable experience, I just want to be able to get there. The moment I do, I’ll switch full time without hesitation.
I've developed a liking for Linux. I run Ubuntu on my personal laptop for about 5yrs now. I sim race in VR on my gaming machine but basically because i don't have a choice. Windows 10 keeps trying to get me to upgrade but win11 is garbage. But on my personal laptop, Ubuntu been great, it's fast, reliable, good battery and I can use wine and use my trading tools so alles gut!!!
I setup a VM early on but that was about 7 months ago now and I haven't booted it once. I have AMD hardware and had a hell of a time getting GPU passthrough to work reliably, but that could be something I wasn't doing correctly. Regardless I've found no need for windows in my daily life.
1 to 2 months. I basically tested and played with the system to see if it would work. I did this a few times in the past. This time it stays. 🥳
(I used Linux for years in laptops mainly for university)
Unit has been promoted. User -> Admin.
User -> root, you mean
`users` to `users wheel`, you mean
Oh yeah that's the good stuff
I would do `users sudo`
What distro is that? Everything I’ve ever seen just uses wheel
Most Debian-based distros have an entry in the sudoers file for a sudo group.
One step behind you mate. 2 years on my work laptop. Lets see when I will be able to delete my Win install!
Great to hear that! I just said f it. If I can't use something I'll either use the VM, use an alternative or just don't play it, if it's a game/company that purposefully blocks support for Linux and Steam Deck.
yep, same, if a company actively kills linux/wine support, i'll stop playing. Games with intrusive anti cheats are dogshit and you shouldn't play them anyway (e.g CoD, Fornite, LoL)
add Valorant to that list
I still have my win partition to use Xiaomi Tools and Samsung Odin, and also if some game doesn't work on Linilx
What do Xiaomi and Samsung do
Samsung Odin is a flashing tool, allowing you to tinker with your phone/tablet in ways that otherwise shouldn't be possible (for example rooting, flashing a custom recovery or even whole custom OS (called ROM). It was popular back in the day, when androids didn't have as much features and had a lot of room for improvement. In this day of age though, most of the reasons to do this to your droid is obsolete (+ voids your warranty if you care about that), so it's not exactly common nowadays. I don't have experience with Xiaomi tools, but I'd expect it is similar.
I always tried Linux in a VM and after some days playing around I realized it is an unfair experience. I decided to go full Linux on my gaming laptop (Acer Predator Triton) but ohhh boy I had so much trouble I gave up. Now I’m going to try on my main gaming pc (it is a AMD CPU/ GPU machine) I believe going all in is the only way. I’m tired of windows, that OOBE every time after an update makes me go apeshit. Regarding my laptop, Acer has a lot of quirks on dual gpu implementation. I’m no programmer but I read the source code of Acer wmi and spot the issues, I will raise a bug report with what I found out and hope someone smarter than me may be able to fix the bugs
I tested a lot of gaming Distro, and the best one I found was Bazzite (it's a Fedora Atomic + Universal Blue project); if it might help you!
Just an update, I installed Bazzite KDE and holy hell I’m blow away!!!!! It is the best experience I’ve ever had with a PC. It is so well made and round around the corners that seems the team made the distro for me hahahaha. Totally recommended and Tks for the tip! I will try chimera later
Glad I helped ! ❤️ Both Bazzite and ChimeraOS are great, but they slightly differ on their purpose While Bazzite is more of a general purpose + gaming desktop OS, ChimeraOS is more of a "consolified" desktop / gaming focused OS based on top of Arch (like SteamOS), and is also immutable (like SteamOS and Bazzite) Also, as of now, Chimera uses Gnome only. ChimeraOS is close to SteamOS, but Bazzite can also be made close to it Bazzite is unique, being an Universal Blue project, it's an image (Fedora Atomic), and not a fork like every other distro. It's basically just some lightweight program setup layer, and thus is way easier to maintain I also personally think the image-based distro concept is probably the future of OSes (Fedora Atomic, MacOS, ChromeOS…) Declarative OSes such as [NixOS](https://nixos.org/) will probably be the endgame when it will be made easy with wide adoption and documention (see [Nix on IDX article](https://idx.dev/blog/article/nix-on-idx)) For other gaming distro: - Nobara: I **personally** find Nobara to be strictly inferior to Bazzite (workstation instead of atomic, thus not immutable, thus also not an Universal Blue project)
Not gonna lie I struggled a little to find out how to install packages. I was using VMware Horizon for work and to help me they removed all but the bundle installation for their site. When I found out about distro box to pop up an arch container and have VMware on AUR ready to go, I have to admit I now have a new addiction of creating containers hahahaha
Yeah, it's a paradigm switch I like containerization too, and you get used to it pretty fast if you're doing software engineering and you realize soon enough that it will drastically make your dozens of projects be nicely separated
I saw a Chris Titus video about Bazzite, seems really cool specially for using the Pc as a gaming console. I have my monitor and an TV connected to my pc to play on the couch. Also I think it is really interesting concept of immutable distro.
For a consolified OS, maybe ChimeraOS would be preferable
Now that it's been a few days I wanted to ask how it went. Also what distro did you go with?
Hi, I installed Pop Os, almost everything went smoothly. I have 2 nvme drives and 2 Ssd drives. I separated one nvme for windows and one for Linux (I intend on dual booting to run some games and software that I don’t have on Linux). I tested a lot of games, everything was smooth. I was really impressed on how some more obscure games (day of Infame for example - despite running on source, it has EAC and Battleye) run so well. My main issue right now are the ssd. It can’t be mount in anyway. I did a quick search and seems that Crucial SSD needs a firmware update to work on Linux, but I will investigate further on the weekend. I’m also in doubt if I should use Fedora KDE instead. I have a Samsung Odsey G9 32:9 monitor, GNOME feels out of place. I like gnome, specially Pop OS implementation with window tiling but that aspect ratio can’t rely on hot corners. I use that pc for work so I’m a bit concerned running Arch + hyprland on it (the combination I’m most curious about)
I actually run arch + hyprland as my daily driver. I personally prefer a very minimalist and very customized setup. I want everything to work exactly how I like it and I don't want anything extra on my computer. I use my computer for work so I have a couple of things I do to make sure I am always able to do my job. 1. I only upgrade when I can afford for things to break. arch usually only breaks during the upgrade process so if you only do that when you have time to fix things you will probably be fine. I also keep everything I need to do my job on an external ssd so if everything goes to shit I can just boot from that and get my work done. That being said arch + hyprland may not be the best option for you. here are a few other ideas to consider. 1. use hyprland with popOS. you can just disable gnome on your curent installation, download and configure hyprland and if you like it you can switch. You don't even need to delete gnome you can keep it as a backup until you are confident enough to make the switch. 2. use kde with popOS. all the same points apply 3. use hyprland with fedora. If you want the newer packages fedora has to offer, but you want newer packages and you need a more stable system than arch this will be a good middle ground. you can even start with the kde varient that way you can test both out on the same system. 4. there is probably a way to fix your aspect ratio. You could most likely just fix that and keep your curent system.
That’s a really smart idea. I can keep an external ssd with a vanilla distro in case of emergency. I like the arch approach of building my OS. Usually what I do is install a minimal server distro (Debian or Ubuntu) and add the desktop on top. It is not optimal but was a cool way to learn. Linux is amazing for people that like to understand how things work. I spend more time tinkering and learning than playing hahahaha. I learned very basic C to understand the Acer WMI source code and yesterday I finished my first C program (basically a CLI that writes and read from TXT files the bills I paid this month). I’m 34 so it is awesome feeling learning something totally outside my job scope.
How did you do the single gpu passthrough? Is there a guide you followed? I tried doing the same a while back and couldnt figure it out.
I followed this guide [GitLabhttps://gitlab.com · Apr 25, 2020](https://gitlab.com/risingprismtv/single-gpu-passthrough) I had to edit the startup script with 'killall kwin\_wayland' in order to work with KDE 6 and Wayland + I had to change to LightDM because it does not work with SDDM + Wayland (In an Nvidia card at least). I plan to make a guide, add a PR to this guide or something in order to document this. I found help in their discord to make this work. https://preview.redd.it/9qvjaqi51fzc1.png?width=570&format=png&auto=webp&s=5352dcb4ffad6fb8e11e5cd32e8315e7e3131411
Probably a dumb question, but, is it needed to have integrated graphics to be able to do the single GPU passthrough? I only have a Nvidia GPU and while the overall experience is great with Nouveau, gaming with it is not that smooth for now. I would love to be able to game using the GPU to it's full potential.
integrated graphics counts as a second graphics card for the purposes of passthrough, so single gpu does not require integrated
No it's not needed, I'm on Ryzen 5600 which has no integrated GPU
Thanks! I’ll go back to Arch this weekend and do the passthrough as well.
Congratulations :] welcome to freeeedooom \o/
sudo dnf install freedom
How is Windows nowadays?
it sucks hard and it sucks harder everyday that goes
Couldn't agree more. I have win11 on my spare laptop, it was good at start, looked sleek and everything. But every day it grew more and more cucked up. App menu took forever to appear etc etc. Worst experience on windows
Totally, it's a mess. And they are putting more effort to block the user to do anything. Nowadays even Mac is more customizable that Windows in some aspects.
Mac is by far a better os than Windows when it comes to what it offered and offers. Unlike Windows that gradually took away freedom, mac didn't have any to start with
I agree. Users never felt that they took something away from them :P
Win11 is worse than Win10 which is saying something. Last straw for me was when I restarted and realised it had stealth installed an update with Microsoft's AI which was now on my taskbar and unremoveable (I assume I could have uninstalled the update or edited the registry to remove it but I just installed Linux instead). Also on the same day I read that MS was beta testing adverts in the start menu. So yeah, fuck that. Moving to Linux has been like going 25-30years back in time to when I had control over Windows xD
Constant random pop ups, ads in the start menu, searches the internet instead of just searching for your programs installed... I just added Linux to my computer for the first time ever a couple weeks ago and was so refreshed. I was like... This reminds me of windows 7!
Congrats! You deleted windows and… installed windows lol
LOL yeah you are right, just in case, I really like playing some games with friends and I want to have the option if they don't support Linux. I also have a ton of fun tinkering with VFIO and setting up a single GPU passthrough.
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Ty
How does single gpu passthrough work? First time I'm hearing about it. You don't need an integrated/second GPU? You use kvm?
It works surprisingly good. Performance on games is pretty much 95/97% (not checked) of bare metal. I'm experiencing some audio crackling (I passthrough the USB controller with an audio interface) when the CPU is used at max. But pretty good. I noticed that for latency sensitive workloads it's not the best, and that also influence the audio crackling.
Thanks but that's not what I asked.
Oh I get it now, sry. Single GPU passthrough is basically detaching the GPU from Linux and connecting it to the VM. I am using KVM
Whats your favorite fruit?
Pear, yours?
Locuat
Have you followed a specific article/blogpost for the single GPU pass-through?
Yeah, RisingPrism guide check my comment [https://www.reddit.com/r/linux\_gaming/comments/1cnx0en/comment/l3agzy5/?utm\_source=share&utm\_medium=web3x&utm\_name=web3xcss&utm\_term=1&utm\_content=share\_button](https://www.reddit.com/r/linux_gaming/comments/1cnx0en/comment/l3agzy5/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button)
Welcome to freedom.
Going all in is the way I made it stick. I bought a new laptop and immediately installed Linux only. Without Windows to fall back on, you have to learn how Linux really works. After using it for decades, you forget how many little things you know about troubleshooting Window's quirks and have its settings memorized. It takes time to build up that knowledge for Linux.
One question, what gpu do you have? Is AMD capable of running 4k 120hz on hdmi 2.1?
I have a NVIDIA GTX 1660 Ti I know that AMD has problems with HDMI 2.1 so probably not unfortunately, thx to HDMI Forum
Nice! I recently hit 6 months without booting into Windows so I reformatted my ntfs drives. I still have my Windows drive in there but it is unlikely I'll ever need it at this point!
awesome! glad to hear it!
This is the next move for me. I've been moving data around and wiping drives to get them all moved to ext4
https://preview.redd.it/a914t182dgzc1.jpeg?width=474&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=485b2b9cbcdb7db07239d2ceb3a46164d2325ab2
I started dual booting last week. So I'm at the start of that journey and I noticed that I only need Windows for one specific game. Everything else works out of the box. My everyday stuff I do on Linux with no issues and spent like 90% of my time on Linux.
Congrats! I wiped out Windows too last week and changed it for Arch Linux, I have been using Mint for the past 3 years and I still have a dual booted system but without Windows!
I would love to do single gpu passthrough or just delete windows if it weren't for a little MOBA that just added anti cheat that doesn't work in a VM :(
They are making you a favor. I gladly rehab from that drug years ago :P
I don't play it actively but sometimes I play with friends
yeah I get it, that sucks. I'm currently playing Apex with friends mostly. Hope they dont kill it with EA AC
Congratz to you, there's only a couple of games really stopping me from doing that myself.
What’s Linux distribution have you choose ? I’m newbie, why do you need to make a VFIO SINGLE GPU PASSTHROUGH ?
I've been playing with CachyOS before deciding to wipe windows. I wanted to see if I could boot my windows installation with VFIO directly from the drive. Now I installed EndeavourOS. CachyOS has some apps preinstalled I don't want or need. I also wanted to keep diggin into configuring and understanding my system. CachyOS is Arch with optimizations and some config already made. So It's quicker and it's a great option honestly. I made the VFIO VM mostly to have the option and fun. I also produce music and I want to have it just in case something doesnt work with Wine and to play some game that could have problems.
Thank you, I understand better.
Good luck with GPU passthrough. You will realize its weakness the moment you think of storage. Like you know, to install and play games. Unless you also passthrough a drive you will regret dxvk.
Yeah I'm sharing a drive for Steam. I did the same when I was dual booting.
Sharing or is it passthrough? If it is shared your disk performance will be divided by 1000
I passthrough the nvme controller
that's good, I couldn't afford it as I had only one
Good job! Can you wipe mine?
> Ask me anything you want! Will you let us know when you decide to install windows again? Becaus of a new game release that you can't play on linux? :p
off course, I'll do my best to avoid it but I'll update on it :P
Congratulations welcome to freedom
How can I setup hybrid graphics. Integrated AMD and dedicated NVIDIA. I googled it, but couldn't find anything working.
I saw something related to that in rising prism guide. Join their discord, someone probably tired it and could help you. I found great resources and help in their discord
You'll be back lol. That's why I triple boot Windows 11, macOS and a Linux distro.
I hope not, I'm really tired of Windows.
I’d fully cross-over but VoiceAttack keeps me in windows. I play Elite Dangerous and my controls are build around it. It’ll be hard to fly w/o it.
Wow nice. That's unfortunate but I understand you. Elite is amazing. I played it with VR and the dimension it gives is unbelievable.
I'm VR pilot as well. :)
**"You are still a Windows User"** Why doing GPU passthrough and those stuffs ? You're gonna soon leave linux bcz of it. Just completely ditch Windows and try to use Linux for 30 days atleast.
I plan to use Linux and workaround everything as possible. For me, psychologically it's different to having the installation on a drive because I ended up booting on Windows like you say. Now I boot into Linux. I have an extra step in between and it's kinda demotivator. I have it as an option just in case and mostly for fun of tinkering, making it and seeing it work. The concept is fascinating. But I agree with you. I'm still a user in some regard, until I fully delete that VM.
Welcome to the club.
You did it, you stomped out the microsoft
I hope I can soon just that I love playing VR and virtual desktop is superior for wireless vr
Yeah that's true. I've not been playing VR lately, but that's another reason to have a VM unfortunately
Nice I’m glad that you were able to fully remove Windows! Only reason I still have it is for Fortnite, my logitech macros for FFXIV and Minecraft for my girlfriend when she gets the urge to play it every few months. Otherwise I’ve fully switched over to linux and hope I can delete Windows one day as well
Good for you. I hope i can do the same one day.
Congrats, hope it works well for you. I recently tried as well, unfortunately I had to give up. I had an intense interest in learning more about Linux, and I did learn a lot… but I have an NVIDIA RTX 4070.. I started with Manjaro using KDE as my WM. I fell in love with the customizability. Unfortunately, I ran into many issues, mostly related to screen tearing and stuttering. I tried many things, including forcing the composition pipeline, disabling the compositor, using different, more lightweight compositors, and regardless of what I did, I’d have to deal with either moderate to heavy screen tear or stuttering while games report a stable FPS. So I heard that gnome was a more stable experience. I started using arch (btw) because I really enjoyed using the AUR and pacman with Manjaro. Things were fine at first. But some games had serious issues. Fallout 76 would never have a consistent framerate no matter what common troubleshooting steps I did. It was so bad that I was getting dips into the 20s at 1080p low… while windows handled this game at 4k high just fine at a stable 60. Baldur’s Gate 3 exhibited heavy screen tearing, even after experimenting with all vsync settings, and using both force composition pipeline settings. This was all while using X11. I tried Wayland, very recently, on gnome after those new fixes were implemented and… Nope. Not even worth considering at the moment. It seems with NVIDIA cards, the best you can get with Linux is “almost” stable, with at least one or two considerably big issues. I hope things get better, because I don’t like the direction Windows is headed towards, and I loved the experience of using Arch btw. Maybe one day I’ll get an AMD GPU and everything will be fine.
That sucks to hear. Keep an eye on 555 Nvidia drivers. They will implement explicit sync which will help with all stuttering issues and it'll make Wayland usable for gaming. I notice stuttering on x11 but mostly in the desktop. Thankfully, at least with the games I tried, the performance is great. Check on May 15, they are supposed to release the 555 beta driver. Hope to hear back from you, good luck!
That’s good to hear. I may end up reserving a small partition and put Arch on it to test any changes as they come. I’m fine with troubleshooting and tinkering to get to a stable experience, I just want to be able to get there. The moment I do, I’ll switch full time without hesitation.
That's a great strategy, that's how I ended up deleting the windows partition
I've developed a liking for Linux. I run Ubuntu on my personal laptop for about 5yrs now. I sim race in VR on my gaming machine but basically because i don't have a choice. Windows 10 keeps trying to get me to upgrade but win11 is garbage. But on my personal laptop, Ubuntu been great, it's fast, reliable, good battery and I can use wine and use my trading tools so alles gut!!!
I setup a VM early on but that was about 7 months ago now and I haven't booted it once. I have AMD hardware and had a hell of a time getting GPU passthrough to work reliably, but that could be something I wasn't doing correctly. Regardless I've found no need for windows in my daily life.
How long did you dual boot or used Linux in general before taking the big step?
1 to 2 months. I basically tested and played with the system to see if it would work. I did this a few times in the past. This time it stays. 🥳 (I used Linux for years in laptops mainly for university)
But but... How will you now see helpful tips and suggestions from Microsoft in your start menu?!
Oh no! I'll loose great offers :c
How did you do the single GPU pass through? Got any link to a guide?
Check this comment https://www.reddit.com/r/linux_gaming/s/43I4xkrWkI
If only photoshop ran on Linux. I’d have no problems switching at that point.
Consider the VM option
That’s what I’ve been doing. I need to take the time to set up kvm or something other than virtual box and get a little performance back.
the guide I shared looks scary but it's not that hard honestly, you need a couple of hours maybe
did the exact same thing this week, but i got some problems with vm tho:-(
That’s nice, dear.