I’m hoping to find linux versions one day. If I didn’t love vr so much I wouldn’t need windows at all as all the flat games I have tried work beautifully from both steam and lutris, ie; satisfactory, ESO, and Dawn of Man.

I am dual booting as I get VR to a better level, but I want that cancer off my system completely one day. Right now I have no monitors for vr performance in linux (any suggestions? FPSVR is my monitor for windows in VR) but it “feels” like often I am getting less than 20 fps (eye fatigue and strain that does not occur in the same games on windows) tho it looks like it is at least 35-60fps in the recorded playback, it just feels off.

I am hoping for some feed back on this from people that have used it. I could use bottles but doesn’t that also require a windows “install” or container type thing like this? I am just exploring different avenues to get things working and this looks promising, tho a VM may make a bit of a dent in my old ryzen 7-3800 and I am fairly confidant if I had an amd card instead of the RTX 4070ti super my experience would be better but that is a cost I cannot swallow yet and I need a new cpu more. In the end I will prolly try to get wine and bottles working but a simple to get running app like this could be the short term answer

Thats beautiful. mines been watching me for about 5 months game and everything else. Today she is setting up ESO and the addons and may poke around to personalize her system. Bonus, as I removed her windows drive, she found some files she didn’t know she had but really wanted. Tonight we get the last bits setup. I forgot that the nvme in her system, my old pc from 5 years ago, only had a 120gb capacity I replaced it with a 1TB nvme

unless they need kernel level anticheat, the rest should work. just demonstrate how well your system runs these apps and that should help. just be ready to be their on-call tech hehe

Yeah, once the hardware issue is covered we are golden. She has about 90% of what she needs now, tonight we fix the rest, like programming the buttons on her g13. ESO and Mc installed no problem, Minion was a bit til I got flatpak going, should be fun tonight finishing it all off

Oh, my teaching of the file system is (and the video does it nicely) these are your folders, these are not your folders just like in windows hehe once i finish the last touches she won’t really know she is on linux

nice :)

thats the one, ty, I just hope it works on her chinese knock off hehe. the mouse and standard buttons work fine so far

oh nice, I will go down the zfs rabbit hole one day, but not today hehe thank you

Oh yeah! Meant to do that on mine, ext4 is what I am using, but yeah she will get btrfs as timeshift suggested it when I finally activated it last month

If I had gone with mint I would have brought her on it as well as it is easier for me to support what I am using, tho if I were to set her up and then never help mint is the way. The only DEs I really used ever were Gnome and KDE, I did play briefly with XFCE and another one I can’t remember from the early 00s

edit: forgot to thank you for the offer of assistance

lol

I found 4 different G13 “drivers” on github, the only one that worked was the one all the others forked from

Base buttons (left, right, wheel), yes they will work, just the 12 on the side need to be programmed (look at the razor naga for an equivalent example to her mouse)

That will be a fine day

Oh, perfect, thanks. I’ll take the easy route and check this repo out

Yeah, mine just wants to play her 2 games and watch some streaming stuff. KDE should be a very shallow learning curve, almost everything is laid out similarly just some terminology stuff is different. I liked Gnome when I used it many years ago but for my VR at the time I set this up KDE/Wayland was the suggested way to go and now I don’t want to change my DE even if Gnome now works as well as KDE. I am getting more excited for this as the day progresses. The greatest pain (timewise) will be downloading ESO. I wonder what would happen if I just copied her current ESO installation into the destination after letting lutris setup the ESO environment, her ESO install is around 120gb

Yeah, simple as possible. She has 2 drives (a new 1tb m.2 and iirc a 1 or 2tb platter) and that will be the extent of partitions, I even stopped doing partitions on my systems this time around. I didn’t plan on doing a vm, now I just might, (is there a container or something ready to dl? I seem to recall reading that a bit ago. Iit has been a long time since I used a vm, is it possible to clone her active windows into a vm?) her proprietary needs are simply G13, ESO and Minecraft, the rest as you say are web based. HELL no to external repos, except the G13 one, I certainly do want it simple for her. Over the past 4 months I’ve been scrutinizing the updates before running em and have had 1 issue with FF but the rest has been a dream.

As I said I’m leaving her a rip cord in case she just doesn’t like it, I don’t see her having issues after a week of use.

Thank you will add to the list

The version I am using will have support til '27, so will get her used to the environment first. Then I’ll need to do the change to Debian first to ensure everything works before the end of life, lets hope I have the mental energy to do it then.