Hey all, I’m a longtime Ubuntu user for work and recently switched my desktop to arch from windows after seeing how well games run on my steam deck! I’ve wanted to move to Linux fully for years but gaming on it used to be pretty hit or miss.
So far arch has definitely been more involved to get going - but I managed to get a desktop environment that runs great with my gpu and steam. I love how minimal it is out of the box and I’m getting a lot of ideas of stuff to build with it.
Anyway I’m mostly just posting to introduce myself to the community on here and to say how much I’m liking arch so far.
But, if you have any tips/suggestions of things I may have missed to take full advantage of my system when gaming, I’d appreciate hearing it! Also, if you’re running a setup like this, any favourite packages you have?
Congrats on making the change!
One piece of gaming software I have not seen mentions yet that I really like is Lutris. It is a unified launcher (steam, gog, epic…) that really helps to keep game installations organized and also helps to manage wine prefixes. I recommend checking it out.
Oh this seems great, definitely checking this one out
Such a long post and not a single “BTW”. Welcome and have fun! It’s such a great feeling not having to worry about the horrors Microsoft comes up with next.
The start menu was getting so painful 😭
inching towards making the same jump.
Currently the things holding me back are music production stuff (mainly vst/vst3 plugins and their draconian drm). If anyone has any first hand experiences with eg. iLok and the plugins working under wine, it would be grand <3
Games wise… does raytracing in games work under linux? eg. Cyberpunk 2077, gog -version.
No experience with audio stuff but I feel you in terms of photo editing. Lightroom is gonna be sad to lose but darktable seems pretty good and if I’m being honest I mostly edit on my iPad anyway.
For games if nobody answers your question I’ll test it out when I get home from work
I switched to Darktable years ago and haven’t missed Lightroom at all. It takes some getting used to but it’s very good.
Awesome! I made the jump as well a couple of weeks ago. Struggled hard with the installation because I was being dumb during some parts. When everything worked I got this nagging feeling that I must have forgot something or done something wrong, which is why after I was done with everything, I installed EndeavourOS. Still an arch distro and I went through the installation, so I’ll just pretend I’m one of the gang.
No shame in that. I considered myself a pretty proficient Linux user until I installed arch lol
Congrats on finally using a real OS! Arch is fantastic and teaches you a lot of skills down the road.
