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should i switch to linux? (programming.dev)
submitted 5 months ago by to c/linux@lemmy.ml
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[–] 9 points 5 months ago (6 children)

yeah you should

you should definitely try it out and see if you like it; try various distros and desktops

the distros id recommend are fedora (simply good), opensuse tubleweed (versatile and unobtrusive), cachyos (designed for gaming), bazzite (fedora-based steamOS clone, designed for gaming), or mint (very easy), and the de id recommend is kde plasma

can keep windows on a separate drive to boot for the games that dont work (and in case u want to switch back)

but if ur pirating, those wont be kernel anticheat games, which are the main offenders

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  • [–] 6 points 5 months ago (5 children)

    And ntfs does not work with proton so if you keep your Windows games that don't work on a separate drive, they won't work on linux. Make sure all of your games played on the Linux install are downloaded separately onto a Linux file system like ext4

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  • [–] 4 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    NTFS works with proton as long as you set up your /etc/fstab properly to make sure it's mounted as writeable, but I believe you also need proprietary drivers.. I can't remember now, but up until a couple weeks ago I had my storage drive with all my games mounted in Fedora and it was NTFS from my previous win11 install.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago* (2 children)

    NTFS has gotten better on Linux but it's still not there. It is still highly prone to corruption, especially for a task like proton requiring constant read, write. You might get by for a little bit, but it is highly prone to failure

    Source: https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/wiki/Using-a-NTFS-disk-with-Linux-and-Windows

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago (1 child)

    Fortunately the only issue I've had with mine is one time it decided it didn't want to mount properly. I got it fixed, but then pulled everything I wanted to keep off it and switched to BTRFS. I imagine people with dual-boot are more likely to see issues though.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago

    People with dual boot are more likely to have games on NTFS and think that they can use them under Linux and not realize that just because some people get lucky with it for a while does not override the fact that the proton GitHub itself says do not use NTFS for the previously stated reasons

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