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[–] lightnsfw@reddthat.com 3 points 2 months ago

Just bought a laptop and put bazzite on it to try it out and figure out if I can do all the things I want to do on it. If that all works out I'll be switching my desktop over.

[–] AvailableFill74@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Linux has some problems that I just can never find answers for.

#1. Can’t do 4k 340hz on my display port 1.4 cable. Even though I can on windows and Mac. In Linux the option is there with the nvidia driver, but the screen goes black anytime I try to use it. No solution.

#2. Ubiconnect won’t work with Ann 1800 even though it’s good on proton.db and others are reporting it works great, I was never ever able to get it working or find reliable steps to get it working.

It’s a needle in a haystack trying to find fixes for things like this. Linux offers a lot, but still doesn’t offer the most important thing ease of fixing problems quickly so you can just do what you want to do.

Run a game and work at the native resolution.

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[–] SSNs4evr@leminal.space 3 points 2 months ago

I've enjoyed Linux since Windows MEllennium Edition convinced me that I didn't like paying a lot, in money and time, to be an unpaid product testing guinea pig. A work friend put Windows 2000 on that laptop when ME went bad. I used it until a got a blue screen of death one day, and switched to Linux. The 1st was a $230 ePC that could be had with Windows XP or XanderOS (a flavor of Linux). I chose the latter, and had a great time of it. I've since used Mint and Ubuntu.

[–] WanderingThoughts@europe.pub 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Anybody tried a steam deck with dock? Gaming and casual desktop should be doable with that.

[–] The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

Steam deck with dock is amazing. I picked up a dock about 6 months ago and have gotten so much use out of it.

[–] lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I've been daily-driving Linux Mint (LMDE 6) on my Thinkpad T14 G1 for almost a year now. At this point, that laptop is easily the most dependable machine I've ever had. My gaming PC is the last remaining Windows machine in my house. Recently I've been making sure everything is backed up (Syncthing is great for this) and finding alternatives for programs that don't have a Linux version.

My plan is to create images of both my SSDs (500GB & 2TB, both NTFS 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️) onto a 4TB hard drive. Then start from scratch, migrating data from the images (Steam games, config files, personal documents I may have missed, etc) when/if I need it.

[–] Jaysyn@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I switched to Mint a year ago. Don't miss a thing.

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[–] ekZepp@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Being a deck owner not over obsessed in the latest tripe A games.

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