Seriously consider moving to Linux

[igor_kavinski]

I don't know much about gaming distros, but I recently read an article that touted Bazzite and CachyOS.

Yeah, I would try CachyOS because it's the only distro that worked right away for me in a VMware VM. I tried three or four other distros before it and they would all cease during booting.

@DAPUNISHER uses Bazzite I think. I'm sure he has some words of wisdom to share on it and games compatibility.

 

[manly]

Yeah, I would try CachyOS because it's the only distro that worked right away for me in a VMware VM. I tried three or four other distros before it and they would all cease during booting.

@DAPUNISHER uses Bazzite I think. I'm sure he has some words of wisdom to share on it and games compatibility.

The article said Bazzite is for the everyman*, while CachyOS is for igor_kavinski power users.

* Since it's immutable, it's harder to break.

But this one's almost foolproof: https://www.codeweavers.com/crossover

It's paid but you can try it out to see if your games work fine in it. It's priced reasonably.

CrossOver is subscription-ware*. Most users will do fine with Steam/Proton, and related free hacks and tweaks.

* I believe you can keep it using it, but you won't get updates and newer versions. I'm cheap, so it's not worth it to me.

 

[igor_kavinski]

I try to be a power user but I'm scared I will press the wrong button and launch the nuke

 

[DaaQ]

Storage Spaces is a Windows feature. You wouldn't be installing Linux onto a SS storage pool.

Generally, I wouldn't use motherboard RAID. It's not actual hardware RAID, because the software is doing the real work. Except for niche applications or disposable data, I'd never consider RAID-0 for anything.

Linux mdraid is very good, so you can do software RAID if you need it (usually by hand with the mdadm command). For larger arrays, something like ZFS is viable too but I'd stay away from Btrfs.

I don't know much about gaming distros, but I recently read an article that touted Bazzite and CachyOS. As for GPUs, AMD is preferred because they have long supported open source. For Nvidia gaming, you use a binary closed source driver (there is an open source driver that isn't full performance).

Board has 4 m.2 slots. If PCIe gen 5 comes down enough in price should just grab one of those and just put the ssds into the vintage bin. Or grab another 4TB gen 4. Will have to check the prices out.

 

[igor_kavinski]

Or grab another 4TB gen 4. Will have to check the prices out.

https://www.amazon.com/Empowered-PC-TEAMGROUP-T-Force-Gen4x4/dp/B0FD49116L/

 

[manly]

I try to be a power user but I'm scared I will press the wrong button and launch the nuke

 

[Indus]

I'm using Mint Cinnamon 21.1. I've barely tried to game on Linux, I dual-boot with Windows just for gaming or storage drive recovery work (NTFS).

The extent of my gaming has been OpenXCOM (native in Linux), Tomb Raider 2 and 4 (I think I got both to run fine), Star Wars Jedi Academy (using some amateur Linux port, it was unplayable), and that's about it I think.

I can't help you with Storage Spaces at all, never touched them.

AMD GPUs AFAIK have a better rep for Linux compatibility, I've used two on Linux being the R9 380X and my current 6700XT. With the latter, I've had 2-3 hangs in Linux since I built my AM5 setup in late 2023, otherwise no problems.

I've gotten every game to work in linux except EA games and PUBG.

Most work just fine.. infact smoother and less choppy than windows if you can believe it. I noticed this over 3 months.. no more random video card fan spool ups to max temps where it happens in windows.