Linux gaming

for the smoothest transition
look at protondb to make sure your games work well.
make sure you're not relying too much on any windows programs.
then try a few distros in a Vm,just to see what you like.
after that,you should be mostly fine.

the one on the right is unironically funnier

>install fedora linux
>install steam
>tick a checkbox to enable steam play (proton) for all games
>done
It's that simple.

i see, what distro are you using?

Distros
>Fedora
Cutting edge tech while also very stable. Great if you have an AMD card. Wouldn't recommend if you have NVIDIA since it ships with Wayland which is buggy on Nvidia, and installing proprietary shit in the Fedora installer is a pain in the ass.
>Manjaro
Good for NVIDIA users. Up-to-date for the most part. Install Nvidia-Utils from the "Add/Remove Programs" to get your proprietary drivers and you'll be good. Install pipewire over pulseaudio if you have audio issues.
>Ubuntu
Don't install this shit. Everything is out of date, bad QA, and the package manager sucks. Only good thing about it is a large userbase which means easy access to help articles.
>Any other meme OS
Don't bother. Pop_OS is based on Ubuntu and still uses shitty APT. Garuda/Endeavor/Nobara and other "gaming" OSs are hobby projects.

Desktops Environments
>GNOME
It looks clean, can be tweaked and generally just works. Would recommend Fedora with GNOME since Wayland is way better on GNOME right now. Fedora - GNOME - AMD card is probably the best gaming setup currently IMO.
>KDE
Out of the box very similar to Windows but very customizable. Very lightweight.
>Anything else
Your mileage may very. Cinnamon and Mate aren't bad though.

lmao

I use Windows 10 everyday at work for helpdesk and you are full of shit. Whenever I have to add a device I have to type "Device and Printers" IN FULL everytime in that fucking search bar because it doesn't pop up any other way. You would think just typing "devices" or "printers" would do it but nope, have to shill our NSA search engine!

Soulless vs SOVL

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Elaborate

did you actually get filtered by fucking fedora of all things
you can switch to xorg on the login screen and installing the drivers is literally just dnf install akmod-nvidia

But Ubuntu got 22.04 recently?

I just got a Windows computer for the first time in 15+ years and while I'm happy to be getting into PC gaming, so many other things are needlessly retarded. The search feature is definitely one of them. What the fuck am I supposed to do with saved files if organizing them is so pointless? Hell saving them at all seems pointless because I can't find shit. Also all of the programs try to charge me for shit that was free on Mac and I have to dig through the internet to find some non-scam basic features like the ability to edit a fucking pdf. Even shit like opening zip or 7z files just doesn't work half the time with what I have.

The fact that nobody's suggesting SteamOS makes me think Valve dropped the ball with that OS's desktop mode.

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Wine isn't Windows and doesn't use Windows.

What's your point? Ubuntu gets OS released every six months as a rule. That doesn't mean everything in the OS is up to date. Ubuntu 22.04 still uses Pulseaudio for example while Fedora moved to Pipewire long ago.

SteamOS hasn't been released as a Desktop OS yet. And even when it gets released, what exactly would be the point to using it? Any gaming optimizations to the OS are open source and will be implemented in every other Linux distro (maybe not be default, but you can always install them yourself).

left one looks like some boomer comic lmao

3.0 still isn't available. Maybe they should have done something... I got the impression that it's basically just Deck, the OS. There are literal hobbyists maintaining distros so it's not like Valve couldn't do it too and have their niche in gaming.

>why doesn't searching the start menu bring up file folders that aren't in there
Maybe try the search in the file explorer like the top image.

>Ubuntu 22.04 still uses Pulseaudio for example while Fedora moved to Pipewire long ago.
`sudo apt install pipewire` too hard for you?
I'm not an Ubuntu user, but if using one distro over another to you comes down to what is pre-installed out of the box, you need to git gud.

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Wow, things change, who would've guessed.

>KDE
>Very lightweight.

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unrelated but can anyone using kde tell me how the fuck i can get rid of recent shit when i search my 'start bar'.

I don't want my web history and other shit showing up there, just applications, I dunno where to configure it.

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>switch to xorg on the login screen and installing the drivers is literally just dnf install akmod-nvidia
Why would one expect a windows-only user to know that or even know how to find that solution? "xorg" would be a completely foreign term and there will be no starting knowledge of commands.

this is what a lot of linux veterans forget, it's not that people don't know how to help themselves or search for things, but they have no idea the terms to look for and then they demean them for it

just install any linux distro, everything just works
I switched a year ago and didnt have any issues whatsoever

The absolute state of smoothbrains that can’t into windows 10.
lmoa

who gives a fuck

So you concede Ubuntu is out of date or what? You are completely changing your argument.
>`sudo apt install pipewire` too hard for you?
Am I making recommendations to myself now? Why are you making this about me, my post was a recommendation to someone unfamiliar to Linux.
>but if using one distro over another to you comes down to what is pre-installed out of the box
The biggest difference separating these distros is the package manager, pre-installed packages, install process, and help documentation. So yes, if I'm comparing distros I'm going to bring up pre-installed packages. Obviously it's Linux, you can modify it a million different ways.

windows 7

>if you don't like windows then you're stupid!
kys yourself

Can't stop farting. The smell in my room is noxious.

You can disable different plugins in Plasma Search settings, that should fix it. Even the KRunner settings should take you there.

This is why I use open shell instead of using window's 10 horrible horrible everything.

Couldn't get Counter Strike working on fedora, nothing would happen after pressing play button.
Now i am on arch and native and proton games working as they should.
I'd suggest you going with vanilla arch (it has installer now) or, at the very least choose endeavour os. Manjaro is not that good.
As for DE, go with KDE.

This
www.voidtools.com

>Where do I change settings
Did you try looking in your settings?

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Rufus was awesome.

the dog was fucking garbage nigger
also
>linux searching
kek lmao rofl hohohoho

I don't understand this image. Why are you comparing the windows explorer search bar to the start menu search bar? I've never had an issue with finding files by filename in windows explorer.

>iGger filename

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t. smoothbrain

New windows search is unironically better at actually finding shit than old windows search is. It might be literally the only thing it does better though.

As a general-use OS, compared to MacOS, Windows or any other Desktop Environment not solely developed to be lightweight? Yes.

reminder win10 is blatant false advertising and win7 can run more than all of its supposed "upgrades"

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OP and anyone with an understanding of the initial question, were I to guess.

You're drinking the koolaid if you don't remember that windows xp search was ABSOLUTE DOGSHIT. Windows vista/7 search is the golden years for the feature.

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It's pretty blatant every new edition of Windows is made solely to increase the DRM and surveillance footprint of Microsoft

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>You are completely changing your argument.
I'm not that other guy. I'm pointing out that arguing that Ubuntu is out of date because its default installed sound server is a more stable and established one rather than the new hotness is a retarded argument. Are the available packages of older versions than other distros?

Somebody unfamiliar with Linux should get familiar with installing packages first and foremost.

> The biggest difference separating these distros is the package manager, pre-installed packages, install process, and help documentation.
Funny, you've forgotten probably the most important difference, being the package repository itself. Available packages, speed of updating to new versions, and quality of package maintainers is more important than any of the things you mentioned when comparing distros with each other. The update process is also way more important than the rest. Element OS has a trivial install process, but updating major versions demands reinstalling the whole system from scratch, which is shit.

> if I'm comparing distros I'm going to bring up pre-installed packages
Why? It's literally the easiest thing to change and most unimportant aspect of any distro. You might as well just recommend Fedora because "GNOME is nice" or something. It's stupid.

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It is a pain in the ass, just dual boot
have a barebones windows install for games and a linux distro for everything else

windows 11 seems to have fixed a lot of the issues in 10 though

10's search is infinitely better just because all I have to do is press the windows key and start typing to do it. also you can open the location by right clicking.

I managed to activate freesync on my pc but now every program that's not full screen keep jumping between 40 and 140 fps. I'm using amd, arch and cinnamon what could be the problem?

This.

sink or swim
anyone who can't handle fedora is too dumb to live, much less use any other linux distro

SteamOS 3.0 is just arch + kde + wayland + gamescope + mangohud launching into their steam ui via gamescope (which you can do on any system that works with wayland/gamescope).
Maybe throw in an fsync kernel like zen for good measure with Proton GE as a good fallback for games that might need its patches.
They lock down root/sys dirs by default so you could do the same if you really wanted to.

just get a steam deck and keep windows in your desktop, linux machines are awful at that

Having used linux for the past 7 years, awful at what?