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Finally making the move to Linux, and I have questions before I get started. (lemmy.world)

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Hi everyone, I'm planning on moving from w11 to kubuntu (lts release - 24.04). I'm a gamer at heart, a game designer by education, and wanting to get away from Windows. I could really use some top tips, best practices, and things to look out for. I have run Linux on a Chromebook, but never as my primary PC.

I'm preparing by copying tax info, critical documents, game prototypes, and D&D documents to a USB.

Then run Linus from a different USB on restart?

Thank you for your help, and any references to specific how-to's 😅.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I did this same move two years ago. Make a list of critical must have functions. Get a second storage drive like your current one, swap out the old and install Kubuntu. Get those critical apps installed and tested. Create a virtual machine out of your old primary drive. Boot that inside Linux when needed.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Good call, I'll have to look into proton for steam games I think? Or maybe a wine compatibility layer? (I don't know what that means, but will check it out. Just from top Internet search)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Protondb is a really good source for that information. I do want to mention protonupqt though. Basically when you go on Protondb you might see that some people are using versions of proton that aren't included with steam(like proton-GE, aka glorious eggroll). Protonupqt provides a tool that downloads some of those for you and even installs them in steam.

And for games that aren't on steam using the heroic launcher (for epic, gog, and amazon(?) games) or lutris (everything else) is the way to go.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 hours ago

Ty for the recommendation, I have heard that the epic store doesn't play nice on Linux

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

I've had good success either using steam (proton is basically seamless and mostly runs by itself in the background without me having to do anything), or lutris for non-steam games