Do you use Linux?

[lambda]

Been using Ubuntu (Gnome) as the main operating system for a while now.

Most of the stuff works but I do have to google stuff occasionally. Games run fine via Steam/Proton. Have used Wine before, it was ok too.

My laptop still runs Windows though due to Optimus (Nv + Intel) and as a general backup/secondary machine. The laptop has no audio on Linux due to some driver issues with Lenovo.

 

[AleXXX666]

I love it!

Linux mint on my main computer.

Bazzite for gaming purposes. Smooth and I couch play. Has come along way. Currently playing RE4 remake.

Since my hardware is non-Windows 11 compliant. No need to upgrade or spend what I don't have just to meet windows requirements.

these stupid "w11 hw req" are useless, unless you personally understand, that your cpu+gpu+ram amount/speed+storage volume/speed will allow you to run w11 BUTTer smooth
what I mean: let's see 2 examples.
1. CPU Core i5-2400. Technically, you could use w11. Practically, I find this CPU slowa** for this OS, lol
2. CPU Core i7-4770, RAM speed 1600, amount 16 GB. Used it with w11, worked "okay".

 

[Aquinus]

these stupid "w11 hw req" are useless, unless you personally understand, that your cpu+gpu+ram amount/speed+storage volume/speed will allow you to run w11 BUTTer smooth

They're not just useless, they're not actually requirements. There are workarounds for installing Windows 11 on machines without SecureBoot or a TPM. My i7 3930k dual boots Ubuntu and Windows 11 despite not having a TPM. A quick google search will turn up some results if you search for "Windows 11 bypass requirements regedit" like this.

 

[Aquinus]

RedHat Enterprise

I've used RHEL before in a past job. It wasn't that much heavier than regular Ubuntu. Also I thought Ubuntu Pro just offered some more niceties like live kernel patching and extended security patches for older versions of Ubuntu. I didn't think it was bloating up systems or really changing them in any significant way. I thought that what you were really paying for was enterprise support when you do something like this.

 

[bug]

@Epaminombas The thread is called "do you use Linux?", meaning it's about personal usage. Why did you feel like making it about enterprise and Windows?

 

[Easy Rhino]

This is a "do you use linux?" thread, not a "Windows is terrible and everyone but the trolls know it" thread. Stay on topic.

 

[cal5582]

windows and mac for the front end, linux for the backend.
ive got a 16-core denverton atom file server running debian to shell out smb, aria2-rpc, and remote-transmission
a raspberry pi remote atx power switch, using piface-relay no longer usable on modern distros im retiring for nano-kvm soon.
ive also got a ryzen 5300G 2u custom built server i use for running openvpn and standalone game servers, conan-exiles minecraft etc.

im running mikrotik x86 on an 8320e (last chip without amd psp but still containing aes offload instructions.) which is linux based but closed source.

 

[razaron]

windows and mac for the front end, linux for the backend.
ive got a 16-core denverton atom file server running debian to shell out smb, aria2-rpc, and remote-transmission
a raspberry pi remote atx power switch, using piface-relay no longer usable on modern distros im retiring for nano-kvm soon.
ive also got a ryzen 5300G 2u custom built server i use for running openvpn and standalone game servers, conan-exiles minecraft etc.

im running mikrotik x86 on an 8320e (last chip without amd psp but still containing aes offload instructions.) which is linux based but closed source.

Speaking of random things with Linux, Android also runs on it. There's an app called Termux that basically runs a Linux distro off of the phones kernel. Neat for grepping on the go.

 

[DaemonForce]

1. CPU Core i5-2400. Technically, you could use w11. Practically, I find this CPU slowa** for this OS, lol
2. CPU Core i7-4770, RAM speed 1600, amount 16 GB. Used it with w11, worked "okay".

2400 is quite slow but the 4770 walks all over my server stuff with ease.

Perfect for containers, virtual kit or just dedicated to H.264 streaming. Might be sitting on gold here.
While I'm strictly Windows Server, there are far more efficient kits available on linux.

 

[Marcus L]

I highly recommend Lutris as a front-end for all of your games! It's similar to Playnite on Windows if you've used that? It can auto-import games from various stores, you can set up emulators through it and it handles the downloading/updating of GE-Proton in the background for any non-Steam games. It even has a series of online scripts to auto-install some games/stores for you.

It is a LITTLE janky at times but once you have it set up right it just works.
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installed it from the POP! Shop, had to update dpkg manually in the terminal and found the cmd in about 30 seconds, then it installed and runs, will try to set up some accounts and see how I get on

 

[unwind-protect]

windows and mac for the front end, linux for the backend.

Linux on the front end, FreeBSD on the backend

 

[mtosev]

I use an android smartphone.

 

[MCJAxolotl7]

Been using Ubuntu (Gnome) as the main operating system for a while now.

Most of the stuff works but I do have to google stuff occasionally. Games run fine via Steam/Proton. Have used Wine before, it was ok too.

My laptop still runs Windows though due to Optimus (Nv + Intel) and as a general backup/secondary machine. The laptop has no audio on Linux due to some driver issues with Lenovo.

Optimus is fine on Linux, IDK what your talking about unless you use Noveau drivers? For the audio, maybe post the LSPCI results?

 

[Solaris17]

For the audio, maybe post the LSPCI results?

In his own thread maybe about that topic

 

[Macro Device]

I don't use Linux but I'm thinking of testing the waters at some point in the future.

Main concerns:
• Gaming (including games installed the old school way: I own physical copies but not digital ones, can't launch them from Steam, GOG or whatever).
• Game development (UE5 at this point).
• Paint.net alternative?
• Customizable keyboard layouts. Full cyrillic input support.
• Absolute minimum of unnecessary stuff such as spell checking, voice to text, AI assistant and whatnot. I don't care, I don't need those.

What are your ideas for me? Also don't look in my system specs, I don't have any idea what PC components I will use for my Linux machine, too (however, it's likely to be Zen 4 CPU + basic B650 board + Ada GPU).

I'm no virgin but you should realize I will not install a distro that requires hours of adjustments in order to be usable.

 

[lexluthermiester]

Gaming (including games installed the old school way: I own physical copies but not digital ones, can't launch them from Steam, GOG or whatever).

This is a kicker. That alone will hold you back in very serious way. There is just no easy way to get around this one.

Paint.net alternative?

There are a few. The recently released GIMP3.0 is a very important step forward, but not my personal jam. Krita is another good one and my personal fav on Linux. There are a few more, but those are the two best.

I'm no virgin but you should realize I will not install a distro that requires hours of adjustments in order to be usable.

If you use Linux Mint, you should have to do no more or less fiddling than a Windows Install would require.

 

[AusWolf]

If you use Linux Mint, you should have to do no more or less fiddling than a Windows Install would require.

Since gaming is a concern, I'd recommend Bazzite instead. It has everything needed for gaming pre-installed, or selectable to be installed on first startup.

 

[lexluthermiester]

Since gaming is a concern, I'd recommend Bazzite instead. It has everything needed for gaming pre-installed, or selectable to be installed on first startup.

Bazzite does not solve the physical media problem due to a number of DRM issues that Linux has no solution for. It's one of the things holding ME back from going Linux full time, but far from the only one. Though in fairness to Bazzite, it is very good, very solid and not more involved than Mint either.

 

[DaemonForce]

If you use Linux Mint, you should have to do no more or less fiddling than a Windows Install would require.

This is pretty much my take. There were times when I used to write chaindisk bootloaders for SLAX and I'm glad those times are long gone.
Mint is modern, takes minutes to setup and that should be ALL. An unattend would be nice but we all know why not to mix that with linux.
I haven't seriously used linux since adding a few flavors to DARCIE and it has been more than a while.

A lot of my favorites from the era swapped lots of code with Knoppix. Are there any really good live distros these days?

 

[Macro Device]

This is a kicker. That alone will hold you back in very serious way. There is just no easy way to get around this one.

Bummer. Well, there's no rush so perhaps I come up with something...

 

[R-T-B]

This is a kicker. That alone will hold you back in very serious way. There is just no easy way to get around this one.

CDEmu plus wine & dxvk was enough for me in most of those instances but yeah, its fiddly. And god help you if the CD has drm.

 

[lexluthermiester]

And god help you if the CD has drm.

This. All of the games I still play do and making the no-cd "patches" work in Linux is a bleeding pain in the bum.

 

[Shihab]

The recently released GIMP3.0 is a very important step forward,

One hoped for Blender 3.0-esque overhaul of the UI. But it seems GIMP devs still think its not worthwhile to attract the 10000000% larger userbase of Photoshop.

But hey! At the very least I wouldn't need to create a group and manually drag half a dozen layers into it just to move them at the same time. I guess we've finally reached 2003!

 

[lexluthermiester]

One hoped for Blender 3.0-esque overhaul of the UI. But it seems GIMP devs still think its not worthwhile to attract the 10000000% larger userbase of Photoshop.

But hey! At the very least I wouldn't need to create a group and manually drag half a dozen layers into it just to move them at the same time. I guess we've finally reached 2003!

To be fair, Krita answers most of what I think your complains might be. Give it a look, you might like it. For me it's Paint.net levels of good. The only reason I'm not using it exclusively is because of a plugin for Paint.net that Krita doesn't support.

https://krita.org/en/

 

[Shihab]

Krita answers most of what I think your complains might be.

Krita is a good software, or so I hear (a good KDE software, what a shocker! </s>) but it's geared more towards digital painting than photo editing and general graphic design.

• Game development (UE5 at this point).

UE has a linux build. Haven't tested it myself. It has been out for a while, and a couple of hobbyists I know sounded positive about it. Do remember that you won't have access to many Windows-only features (e.g. the DirectX libraries, and not just d3d). Parts of your workflow/middleware may also be Windows exclusive.
UE on Linux isn't a priority, me thinks. Only published as a binary you download as a zip or a source to build. Other engines treat nix better. Unity has the full Unity Hub available (which may be a downside for some tho), and Godot can be found practically in every software repo.

Ubuntu is Epic's own recommendation, but there is no guarantee some tool/version would require a specific library version that Canonical doesn't provide. Was a known issue with Unity and some SSL library.

• Absolute minimum of unnecessary stuff such as spell checking, voice to text, AI assistant and whatnot. I don't care, I don't need those.

100% sure there is a guide somewhere to install only the kernel with a bootloader to start it.

Seriously, most distros either come with only basic stuff, or has option to configure what you want at install time (I believe most major distros do the latter, to varying degrees of pedantry).