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I finally nuked windows (lemm.ee)
submitted 9 months ago by IsoSpandy@lemm.ee to c/linux@lemmy.ml
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I have been daily driving a dual booted laptop for the past two years. After a year of distro hopping I settled with fedora + kde and never looked back. I really liked the auto nvidia driver config and it made everything so pleasant to work. Since the last 8 or 9 months I decided to do gaming using bottles and proton ge. I cannot afford to buy games and bottles is a God send at that. Now I realized that I had not logged into my windows partition in over 6 months. So I logged in to check and it told me it needs to download 8 gigs of updates. That sent me into rage and so clean installed everything to be fedora. I have 250 gb of storage locked in limbo because of windows( I have a 512 gb ssd so it was a lot) and today after everything was setup, the os took only around 20gb minus the games. Never felt happier.

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[–] PoliticalCustard@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

I got really close yesterday, I'm a gamer and it's just... ach... anyway... I'm so close. I clean installed Windows and Linux yesterday and designed my dual boot system around giving Windows as little space as was necessary (a small partition on the drive where I keep the OSs and a 500gb Nvme drive). That way I keep a little Windows and everything else is Linux. Other than Librewolf ('cause no flippin' way I'm using Edge) I'm only allowing games on there. No work, email, social media, just gaming.

Anyway, good on you for nuking Windows, I can see myself going full Linux in the not-too-distant future as so much is now working on Linux these days - and not just working, but working really well; some games I get a better experience than on Windows (Warframe, BG3 for example).

[–] Blisterexe@lemmy.zip 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

What video games do you play, BC they mostly all work on Linux

[–] PoliticalCustard@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I play a lot of Destiny 2, Rust, and Star Conflict and I have friends I have made through playing these games over several years. Pretty much all of the other games I play work from amazingly well to just fine on Linux - I have checked the rest of my games against ProtonDB and they're all good to go. I'll probably build a Linux only pc in a couple of years when my current setup needs an upgrade. That will be a day I shall celebrate!