Brand new here. As an infosec professional, I’ve dabbled with Linux here and there but only recently really wanted to take it more seriously.
I’ve never really been a big fan of Ubuntu… I mean I suppose the OS is perfectly fine, and it works great, but it just never clicked with me personally. After many nights and much frustration once, I was able to successfully boot to an Xfce-desktop-environment-Arch-install on one of my laptops and was pretty pumped about that lol. Of course bluetooth, wifi, power management, keyboard backlight, etc., etc. was completely borked, but hey I got a boot lol.
Anyway, fast forward some time and I’ve decided to partition some space on my main system’s C drive, throw in a new 500GB SSD for my /home/ drive and install EndeavourOS. Absolutely love the operating system - the aesthetic is fantastic and it’s basically just worked perfectly with all of my hardware, which I couldn’t be happier with. Of course there is a dual-boot with my original Windows 11 install, but GRUB comes up and it auto-boots into EOS after a few seconds and it’s great. I’m finding only ever switching over to Win11 to fire up a Steam game or something - which is rare nowadays with work.
I’ve heard great things about this community and I’m happy to be a part of it now.
It’s very likely your Steam game will run as well or better under Linux. You should try it. I haven’t booted into Windows for at least a month (and only because a newly released game had a crash issue on Linux (now resolved)).
Yea honestly, there’s not much draw there lol… The only game I really care about is Oldschool Runescape. And the problem is the Jagex Launcher not compatible with Linux. Although the RuneLite game client works great, it’s best to launch RuneLite from the Jagex Launcher, which makes it all frustrating.
I’ve done a bit of reading and there’s something about Wine and a few other things. It’s looks a bit advanced, but it might be worth trying to give it a shot. Seems to be quite a number of steps involved lol
Ryzen 5950X, RTX 3080, a large 4K display and a secondary 1080p monitor to the side, Corsair peripherals - and it all just worked. Right out of the box.
Super impressed with the distro. I love the Arch base and the great polish that is on top.
Beat me to it. I have found that almost all titles work now because of the Steamdeck and all of the ones I play run better. I think it is because I have more resources available. I am cheap and have a 10 year old computer so everything helps.
You guys are giving me some good hope here! But yea, even if it doesn’t, I’m still sold on EOS. It’s been an awesome experience. And like I mentioned, dual booting is no problem
Update on this. I’ve been tinkering for awhile now and low-and-behold, it’s working great. I’m only stumped on the last step on actually building the package. I’m not sure where to do that at, so it’s kind of a pain to launch because of what I need to type in.
