Linux

48323 readers

745 users here now

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

Distributions include the Linux kernel and supporting system software and libraries, many of which are provided by the GNU Project. Many Linux distributions use the word "Linux" in their name, but the Free Software Foundation uses the name GNU/Linux to emphasize the importance of GNU software, causing some controversy.

Rules

Posts must be relevant to operating systems running the Linux kernel. GNU/Linux or otherwise.
No misinformation
No NSFW content
No hate speech, bigotry, etc

Related Communities

Community icon by Alpár-Etele Méder, licensed under CC BY 3.0

founded 5 years ago

MODERATORS

AgreeableLandscape@lemmy.ml

nooter692@lemmy.ml

MarcellusDrum@lemmy.ml

cypherpunks@lemmy.ml

cyclohexane@lemmy.ml

d3Xt3r@lemmy.nz

Thinking about switching to Linux; main concern is son's games (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 week ago by midnight_moon@lemmy.world to c/linux@lemmy.ml

58 comments fedilink hide all child comments

Hi. I’ve been thinking about trying out Linux for a while now (haven’t used it before). I have 1 PC which I share with my son. I mainly use it to browse the web, listen to music, watch movies and TV shows, Office for work, etc. things like that. Those things have good substitutes from what I’ve read, so not an issue. But my son plays video games like The Sims, Cities Skylines, Stardew Valley, Roblox, Minecraft, Stellaris, Slime Rancher… and from what I’ve seen it’s kind of difficult to game comfortably (stable) on Linux. As for the distro I was considering Ubuntu. Currently on Windows 10 Home. Looking forward to what you guys have to say. All advice welcome. Thanks.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] Biskii@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I don't mean to hijack the thread, but I don't want to start a new one for a related question. I understand I will probably have to wipe or partition my primary drive, but will I be able to use my other drives as-is, and have access to all of my files and things?

[–] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yes. But in terms of gaming Steam seems to have problems if your games are on an NTFS (Windows filesystem) partition. Everything else should work.

[–] dwindling7373@feddit.it 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It says they do but they kinda mostly don't. I'm playing from linux on my old steam windows folder on a very much NTFS drive and I never had an issue.

[–] moody@lemmings.world 1 points 1 week ago

I think for the mos part it's fine, but Windows doesn't seem to like sharing NTFS drives. So keeping an old NTFS drive with all your games is generally not a problem, but sharing an NTFS game drive between Windows and Linux sometimes causes issues.

[–] thebardingreen@lemmy.starlightkel.xyz 3 points 1 week ago

Depending on the distro, Linux may or may not be able to write to NTFS volumes out of the box.

The proper way to share drives between Windows and Linux is to format them to ExFAT.

[–] verdigris@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

NTFS drives can be used by both Windows and Linux (you might need to install a driver for the latter but most user-friendly distros include them out of the box). So yes, if you have storage drives you'll still be able to access them from both sides.

There can be weird issues sometimes with this setup, usually as a result of Windows freaking out because Linux modified some file, but it's rarely anything severe. Personally I just flipped all my drives to Linux filesystems because they're nicer for several purposes and I am actively trying to avoid ever using Windows again at this point.