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I'm planning on switching to Linux on my main PC as I don't want to move to Windows 11 and was curious about other people's experiences doing so.

I have a Steam Deck and everything there works out of the box, but I imagine that's a more curated platform compared to standard distros.

What are your experiences, good or bad?

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[–] arxaseus@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 day ago

For the loooonnnnngest time, I had issues running VR on Linux. And for a few years when I started off (many years ago), most games wouldn't run. Things have changed since then however. Now I'm finding all the desktop/handheld based games I want to play; I can just play. In addition, the issues I've constantly had with VR now have been alleviated (albeit with some manual tinkering).

Desktop games without anticheat will just work 99/100. VR takes some effort to work, but is worth it. VR on Linux still isn't exactly perfect either. You sometimes press something in a game, the screen will freeze and you can see/feel it for sure. But, that happens maybe once every 10 mins or so, so it's workable since all I use VR for is VRChat anyway.

Life's good on Linux now. Besides college, I don't think I'll be needing to switch to Windows at all anymore. Oh, actually, now that I remember. I run World of Warcraft through bottles. Every so often WoW updates and kills functionality. I have to rebuild my Bottle, shift my files over and then it runs again, but that's also outside of what Steam does, so.

Besides all of the above, I think I can stick full time to Linux now. It feels wonderful having an operating system that doesn't own you anymore.