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Gaming and Clip Studio Paint for me. (Maybe some other stuff that I just haven't thought of.)
Needless to say, every day my Windows 11 machine bugs out on me I get closer and closer to just giving Linux a solid try for the first time since college.
Do it... I switched about a year and a half ago, and I can't ever imagine going back. And gaming is amazing on it. I've been using Bazzite for several months now and it has been awesome.
Aw. Bazzite can't do Nvidia GPUs. I'm still rocking an RTX 2070 and likely will be for a good while.
Bummer... Aren't the open source Nvidia drivers half-decent these days? I purposely went with AMD knowing I would be doing Linux gaming on it.
No idea, I was just looking into Bazzite specifically.
Bazzite has a standard build specifically for Nvidia GPUs. It supports back to GTX cards so your RTX 2070 will work. Source: I'm typing to you from my PC running Bazzite with a 3060 TI. The only thing this version doesn't support is the Steam gaming mode desktop environment. Steam the application still runs fine and all the games I play work. You can run KDE or Gnome desktop environments. It's time!
Yeah I just learned that this morning. The Bazzite website still has a piece of text on the site that explicitly says it doesn't support Nvidia stuff, but it looks like that's an artifact that just needs to be removed.
Perhaps I shall look into it.
Do it! Do it! Easy to dual boot and test it out. They have a great discord for any questions that come up.
Gaming was one of my reasons as well initially, but it has gotten a LOT better on Linux in recent times by the look of it so I just have music remaining on my list. I also don't use CSP but I have many friends who do art and can understand not wanting to move away from it.
Yeah I used Krita (which works on Linux just fine) for about a year and a half. But once I went back to CSP, I immediately felt that "oh this just works and doesn't require a million workarounds for stuff" sigh of relief.
I've also seen some folks have gotten CSP working on Linux, but it looked like a pretty hairy process. And with CSP having no official Linux support, they might break that process at any point.
It's tough. Might be worth it anyway, depending on how much Microsoft continues screwing the pooch here.