Subj : Re: Year of Linux on the Desktop (for me!)
To   : RetroSwim
From : Bucko
Date : Sun Aug 03 2025 08:13 am

On 03 Aug 2025, RetroSwim said the following...
 
 Re> Hello everyone, long time no see!
 Re> 
 Re> I've spent the last few weeks moving my main Gaming/Streaming/Development
 Re> desktop from Windows 11 to Kubuntu 24.04 LTS.
 Re> 
 Re> So far, outside of one major hardware incompatibility, everything has
 Re> gone really well! My capture card, a rather old Datapath E2S has poor
 Re> compatibility with newer kernels, so I've moved it to a remote SFF PC,
 Re> and send the video over NDI.
 Re> 
 Re> Keen to know if anyone else has made the switch recently? Any difficult
 Re> hardware or software challenges? I've tried to make the switch once a
 Re> year for ages, and it's only been this year that enough stuff "just
 Re> worked".
 Re> 
 Re> I'm hoping it'll stick! At the very least, I don't get a random
 Re> iteration of "Logitech G733 USB Headset (1)" at each bootup!
 Re> 
 Re> Cheers,

I made the switch about a year or so ago. There are some incompatibilities with hardware on my Laptop, but overall I am more than happy I made the switch. I run Debian 12, and other then a mistake I made when installing on my Desktop with the GPU drivers (AMD), that machine runs like a charm, I have gradually moved from using Windows software in a VM to all Linux (Office, etc.) Anything that I need that there is no Linux alternative, I just run with Wine (DirMaster for C64 Disks, Pablodraw, and a couple of other things). Besides being in full control of my computer again and not having to deal with Microsoft forcing updates down my throat then crashing my system. Linux has been a godsend! I only run 2 VM's now of Windows, 1 Win10 LTSC for my BBS Door Server, and a Win 10 VM which I use to assemble WinVice (C64 emulator) for Windows users of a BBS on a Stick project I do for the C64 Image BBS.

Would I do it again? Hell yea, but I would do it much sooner!!


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