I have been daily driving a dual booted laptop for the past two years. After a year of distro hopping I settled with fedora + kde and never looked back. I really liked the auto nvidia driver config and it made everything so pleasant to work. Since the last 8 or 9 months I decided to do gaming using bottles and proton ge. I cannot afford to buy games and bottles is a God send at that. Now I realized that I had not logged into my windows partition in over 6 months. So I logged in to check and it told me it needs to download 8 gigs of updates. That sent me into rage and so clean installed everything to be fedora. I have 250 gb of storage locked in limbo because of windows( I have a 512 gb ssd so it was a lot) and today after everything was setup, the os took only around 20gb minus the games. Never felt happier.
Basically the windows partition was taking up around 250 gb. And wasn’t even booting into it. Sure I could access it from Linux, but it was literally useless.
I nuked my Windows 11 and went with Fedora KDE, too.
Welcome to the Penguin party - you are free now :) And thanks for sharing your OS adventure.
Glad to. Sharing the holy word my friends.
nice
i remember nuking my windows dual boot about 2 years ago
pretty similar story: i discovered almost all my games work with wine, so i didn’t use windows for a few month. eventually i didn’t see any point in keeping it around.
using bottles and proton ge
I don’t think it’ll make much of a difference, but according to the git repo, you should be using wine-ge instead. Also Lutris is another option that does the same thing, but has easy install scripts for GOG, Epic Games, Ubisoft Connect, and EA App.
My process flow has been Steam, if not Steam then Heroic, if not Steam or Heroic then Lutris. I have yet to find a game unplayable.
The only thing I haven’t figured out how to do is get Fusion 360 running stable.
Welcome to the party pal
Thank you. Drinks on me!!!
For anyone wondering what Proton GE is, it’s Proton on steroids: https://github.com/GloriousEggroll/proton-ge-custom
For instance, even if you have an old Intel integrated GPU, chances are you can still benefit from AMD’s FSR just by pushing a few flags to Proton GE, even if the game doesn’t officially support it, and you’ll literally get a free FPS boost (tested it for fun and can confirm on an Intel UHD Graphics 620).
We all just bask in the brilliance of a glorious eggroll.
This community has become nothing but these kinds of posts every day. I’m considering unsubscribing because it’s becoming so bad.
I am sorry if my post made you feel bored. But please don’t unsubscribe. What kind of post do you want to see on this platform? I am sure people can reach a common ground my mutual discussion.
Maybe the mods can restrict it to, like…Windows Wednesday or something.
One day a week, everyone can post about leaving Windows, why Windows sucks, why Windows is gonna fail in 2024, maybe post a picture of their monitor saying “Now Uninstalling Windows,” all the good shit we’ve seen a hundred times by now.
Then, we can all get the hell on with our lives until next week.
My laptop is the same except, I keep a Windows partition because the RGB keyboard controller is only available in a Windows app. That Windows partition exists in a post apocalyptic dystopia where Windows belongs; it has never, nor will ever see the internet. It is blocked my my network firewall. Windows is like a less than useful bootloader options tab.
Not knowing which keyboard laptop combo you have, but have you looked at openrgb? Works nicer than the stock tool I was using in my experience!
Would that work with my Aoris 3070 ti?
Don’t know, but I’d just try it out and see if it works. It detected my motherboard, mouse, keyboard, everything. It was just such a relief after trying and failing to get the stock (windows only) software on linux running
Thank you! I’ll give it a shot.
Thanks for the suggestion. I’ll look into it. I’m a bit skeptical because the changes made in Windows are persistent, the secondary function keys give quick access to some of these features (but only 3 course brightness PWM settings for RGB), but mostly because there is a device on the USB device tree that is unknown to the Linux kernel on mainline-fedora.
Maybe there is some kind of kernel configuration option that just needs to be added, but the bootloader rejects custom keys generated for secure boot. Without my own keys I’m stuck with the shim and can’t run my own signed kernel. It might be possible to set the keys by booting into UEFI with Keytool, but my motivation hasn’t carried me that far into the problem yet. I could be wrong and the unknown USB device could be unrelated, and openrgb could work. Thanks again.
It will depend on the specific hardware, but I can vouche for openrgb. It works for me g502 hero mouse, and my asrok mobo/aio coolers fan RGB. Infact, I have more options than the motherboard gives me lol.
Hell yeah! Welcome, from an admittedly also new full-time Linux user.
8 gigs of update after leaving for 6 months is a sensible thing to occur. I don’t know why it is a thing to be enraged by.
I mean, if you don’t update an OS and you come back to check go updates, it will pile on to become a huge update like the 8 gigs.
Lastly, don’t distrohop because it is not there, there is always something that exists that can give you what you want.
So I logged in to check and it told me it needs to download 8 gigs of updates. That sent me into rage and so clean installed everything to be fedora. I have 250 gb of storage locked in limbo because of windows
Sounds like you took your time, got comfortable, found a distro you liked, and generally did it all the right way. Now watch as with each new headline you see about Windows or MS you become happier and happier with your decision. There’s no better advertisement for Linux than the behavior of MS and Windows. 😁
Congrats on dumping Windows. One of us! One of us!
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I never even wondered about it until you asked lol. But the answer is pretty interesting.
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Same! Apparently it’s been referenced in bunches of other things though.
Exactly. Plus I was super creeped out by the news that apparently Microsoft tries to decrypt files I have stored encrypted on my one drive and by default sets up my home directory to be on one drive. What the fuck
holy shit, if that’s true then I’m so nuking windows off my machines
wow.
Early 2000s, Microsoft starts putting sketchy telemetry into XP: 🙂
Late 2000s, MS ramps that shit up even more with Vista and 7 while the bloat rises to never before seen levels with the architecture change to 64 bit: 😁
Early 2010s, MS includes actual fucking ads into the OS: 😆
Early 2020s, MS jams AI into it because it’s the thing to do and everybody else is doing it after nobody really asked: 🤣
Fuck Microsoft.
Congrats! Hope you keep having a great experience with linux 😁🐧
I genuinely do. I can’t even imagine why anybody would use software whose source code isn’t visible. Not cool.
