I am tired of being a Windowscuck and I don’t wanna become a Macgay. Im thinking of becoming a Linuxchad while KVMing Windows for gaming only (I have two GPUs for one to pass through) Bros, what distro should I use?
I am tired of being a Windowscuck and I don’t wanna become a Macfag.
Manjaro and don't bother dualbooting. Steam Proton just werks.
There are some multiplayer games that will permanently ban you if you try to play them with Proton. Tread with caution.
That’s why I was gonna KVM Windows with GPU Passthrough
and this is a good approach but you need to be careful and meticulous in setting it up, you will suffer some performance penalties for virtualizing, even with pass-through, should you intend to be hiding your virtual machine status. if you don't care or don't play games that detect VMs then the performance can be essentially the same as bare-metal when properly tuned to your hardware/use-cases.
some games will just refuse to launch if you start it in a VM, others (like presumably destiny 2 by the sounds of it) will ban on a detection. they update their detection systems often, too.
anything but manjaro
Stop installing that piece of shit
What’s wrong with Manjaro?
I’ll look into Fedora, thank you!
manjaro is just arch with delayed packages and broken preconfigured environment
it looks like the worst option now
Seems Fedora would be the winner then, don’t wanna dive into Arch until I’m really comfortable with Linux
don't install the silverblue version, it is cucked
I was gonna get the base version and customize as I needed to
Archinstall makes installing Arch a lot less scary for newbies these days, so don't be afraid to try it out if you want
You shouldn't need archinstall unless you're mentally handicapped. No one should be too lazy to read a wiki article and input some text to a console.
If you're that much of a fricking baby, use Endeavor.
"waste time because you're stupid otherwise" no one needs to use endeavour when arch downloads much faster with archinstall.
Archinstall is comfy, automates all the tedious tasks I’d normally do by hand. You still have to have the brains to connect to the internet first anyways
iwctl
>station wlan0 connect "thenameofyourSSID"
>enter paraphrase
>exit
viola
Yeah but when somebody is just starting out even that seems monumental
This. I just switched from Win 10 to Manjaro and I’m really pleased. I couldn’t get Gsync to work properly on Mint MATE and Cinnamon, but on Manjaro Plasma it works great for both native Linux games and through Proton. Everything really just werks.
>and I don’t wanna become a Macgay.
What's wrong with Mac?
from being locked down to not being upgradable, passing through a shitty customer service, that will tell you to buy a new computer when the fix is easy
>a fricking notch
Honestly, starting out, fedora is the best option. Easy and you get the most up-to-date packages.
If you don't like gnome get a spin, kde or cinnamon should be very familiar for you coming off windows.
endeavoros is a pretty good beginner distro
>windowscuck
>macgay
>linuxchad
stop speaking in memes you fricking goose
>meme arrows
stop speaking in memes you fricking goose
Gentoo is the only serious option. All other distros are just training wheels.
this. install gentoo OP
if you're a linux newbie then go for ubuntu or mint
most things you might struggle with are well explained online for those distros
don't listen to fedora shills, it's not for newbies and the name says it all
The thing about ubuntu and mint is that ubuntu has the ask ubuntu stack overflow forum and mint has the mint forum so if you have any problems you can ask them.
Not sure about fedora, but its also a just werks distro.
As much as i hate arch commuity, arch is the best option, i tried gaming vm under manjaro, ubuntu and mint. If you want to passthtough usb devices through evdev and also passthrough audio only arch works without any problems, trying to get evdev work on manjaro will require you to heavioy configure apparmor making you system more vulnerable.
Mint is always the safest first choice.
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If you are used to windows then mint is a great starting point. Just don't be afraid of terminal and trying out new programs to suit your needs. For example, you can install several desktop environments on the same distro side-by-side, try out tiling window managers, or swap parts between them. After some time you will be familiar enough with the available options to have a clear picture of how you want your computer to work and the ability to accomplish it.
why did they have to get rid of snaps though
Now you have to run the web browser through a flatpak
Been a while since I used mint, but I don't think there is anything is stopping you from installing snap as well. Just another package in apt. You might not get such as nice integration as with the default option, but that's about it.
ive really liked ubuntu and now changed to mint. mint is to windowsy for my taste, what should i try. really liked ubuntu but it seems like the package system is pozzed
Sounds like what you like about ubuntu is the gnome desktop environment - you can install it on basically any distro you want, but some come with it out of the box. Take a look at download/flavor options of any distro you are interested in
Manjaro, Artix, or any other it-just-werx Arch-based distro. I don’t know what it’s like on other distros, but I found arch’s package manager (pamac) to be very nice for maintaining my gpu drivers
Mint or arch is literally everything everyone needs. Fedora is mantained be pure monkeys that push literally the worst DE to exist, manjaro are lobotomites that purposefully try to make their distro more unstable than arch, ubuntu is slow as shit with forced snaps down your throat. You just need mint or arch. Arch is not hard to install, archinstall does everything you need it to do.
anyone telling you to use anything other than Arch is holding you back, once you get the hang of it you won't want to use anything else. people distrohop for years before settling on Arch since it's the best, don't waste your time
i went right from win 10 to arch about .. oh, like five or six years ago? specifically to set up a VFIO gaming rig with 2 GPUs. it was a lot less mainstream at the time which meant it was a lot dodgier to set-up, and the arch wiki was one of the best resources for information i had seen on the topic yet, so that informed my decision somewhat. arch wiki is still an amazing resource, especially for arch and arch-based distros but really for all the others too.
there are a lot of cool tools and resources available now, so i don't think it matters much .. but i grew to like how slim arch was and got used to it. the AUR is really really nice to have available if you're new to this kind of thing because people will often have packaged up stuff you'll want to use for this.
my suggestions, regardless of distro:
- avoid raw qemu command-line scripts. go with libvirt. i think it's worth it despite the complexity overhead of the xml and system-server-style interactions, and virt-manager is nice for set-up.
- use libvirt drivers for ethernet and disks in the guest/windows.
- pass through a real whole disk to windows if you can. a whole real partition if not. windows won't treat a partition as "just a partition", it thinks its a whole disk and will put an MBR/GPT on it.. so you won't easily be able to mount a passed-in partition in the host like you might normally, but it's still possible.
- use scream for audio from the guest to the host, instead of the snd_hda from libvirt
- leave your main/host GPU on your monitor, don't frick with switching inputs to the 2nd gpu or w/e .. just use a software called looking-glass. basically copies the frame buffer out of your 2nd GPU with nearly 0 latency into a window (or fullscreen) on your host OS desktop.
Linux Mint with Cinnamon as Desktop Environment. This is how I started. If you come from Windblows, you will be familiar with Linux Mint.