I spent all fucking week debugging crashing issues with Windows 10 and Unreal games (mostly Arc Raiders). Went so far as to reinstall Windows, which somehow just made the crashes much worse. I was starting to worry that my GPU was dying, and was about to RMA it, but first I figured I should give Bazzite a try - and it ran absolutely perfectly. Zero crashes after several hours of testing. Also, funny enough, the entire installation process was smoother than the Windows refresh/reinstall process.
Now I’m backing up stuff on my Windows drive, so I can wipe it this weekend and finally be rid of Windows completely
There were some crashes right on launch, but when I looked them up it seemed like Windows users were having them too. And it was totally fixed within like a week or two.
I’m gonna be heretical here and advise you to consider a dual boot setup, if you have the hard drive space to spare. I like indie games and some are really buggy or poorly optimized for Linux (small teams/solo devs that are amateurs often have these problems especially if it’s a recent release - I understand and I’m not complaining.) There are a couple of games I boot into Windows for, same for the very occasional application.
It’s nice to have the option to boot into Windows as a last resort, at least imo. More power to anyone who has managed to divorce themselves from Microslop permanently but I often wonder if Linux loses users who go all-in and make the full switch immediately, only to eventually get sick of encountering problems with compatibility where they eventually revert back. (Sidebar to mention that whenever I do boot to Windows I am immediately reviled by it and honestly there was nothing quite as effective as convincing me that I’m sold on Linux than when I occasionally switch back to Windows because it’s a reminder that sometimes the grass really isn’t greener on that particular side.)
Glad you’ve found something that works well for you.
Oh yeah, I’ll throw Windows on the spare drive if I ever need it, although I kinda doubt it. (I was able to install my 3D modeling software and slicers easier than it is on Windows, lmao.) Only reason I did it this convoluted way was due to wanting to quickly test Bazzite before RMA’ing my GPU, and Bazzite’s live session can’t run games. But once I confirmed that and backed up my files, I wanted to wipe my primary drive because it’s a much faster NVMe, and I will never let a Windows partition touch any drive that also have a Linux partition, been burned doing that in the past.
Understandable. I think these days it’s not such a big problem as long as you set it up correctly, although it’s a bit of a convoluted process and it’s not something that I’d recommend for people who aren’t at least moderately tech savvy.
I have a handheld that runs dual-boot Bazzite and Windows, with a large shared partition between them where my games are stored. Would have been nice to not have Windows lurking ominously on the same drive, threatening to screw everything up, but it hasn’t caused any problems (yet.) But I can understand why a handheld isn’t gonna have two NVMe slots so I’ll just keep my fingers crossed and hope for the best.
I spent all fucking week debugging crashing issues with Windows 10 and Unreal games (mostly Arc Raiders). Went so far as to reinstall Windows, which somehow just made the crashes much worse. I was starting to worry that my GPU was dying, and was about to RMA it, but first I figured I should give Bazzite a try - and it ran absolutely perfectly. Zero crashes after several hours of testing. Also, funny enough, the entire installation process was smoother than the Windows refresh/reinstall process.
Now I’m backing up stuff on my Windows drive, so I can wipe it this weekend and finally be rid of Windows completely
Arc Raiders runs so smooth on Linux, I love it.
There were some crashes right on launch, but when I looked them up it seemed like Windows users were having them too. And it was totally fixed within like a week or two.
I’m gonna be heretical here and advise you to consider a dual boot setup, if you have the hard drive space to spare. I like indie games and some are really buggy or poorly optimized for Linux (small teams/solo devs that are amateurs often have these problems especially if it’s a recent release - I understand and I’m not complaining.) There are a couple of games I boot into Windows for, same for the very occasional application.
It’s nice to have the option to boot into Windows as a last resort, at least imo. More power to anyone who has managed to divorce themselves from Microslop permanently but I often wonder if Linux loses users who go all-in and make the full switch immediately, only to eventually get sick of encountering problems with compatibility where they eventually revert back. (Sidebar to mention that whenever I do boot to Windows I am immediately reviled by it
and honestly there was nothing quite as effective as convincing me that I’m sold on Linux than when I occasionally switch back to Windows because it’s a reminder that sometimes the grass really isn’t greener on that particular side.)
Glad you’ve found something that works well for you.
Oh yeah, I’ll throw Windows on the spare drive if I ever need it, although I kinda doubt it. (I was able to install my 3D modeling software and slicers easier than it is on Windows, lmao.) Only reason I did it this convoluted way was due to wanting to quickly test Bazzite before RMA’ing my GPU, and Bazzite’s live session can’t run games. But once I confirmed that and backed up my files, I wanted to wipe my primary drive because it’s a much faster NVMe, and I will never let a Windows partition touch any drive that also have a Linux partition, been burned doing that in the past.
Understandable. I think these days it’s not such a big problem as long as you set it up correctly, although it’s a bit of a convoluted process and it’s not something that I’d recommend for people who aren’t at least moderately tech savvy.
I have a handheld that runs dual-boot Bazzite and Windows, with a large shared partition between them where my games are stored. Would have been nice to not have Windows lurking ominously on the same drive, threatening to screw everything up, but it hasn’t caused any problems (yet.) But I can understand why a handheld isn’t gonna have two NVMe slots so I’ll just keep my fingers crossed and hope for the best.