My plan is to buy an NVMe today, install linux as a dual boot, but use linux as a daily driver, to see if it meets my needs before committing to it.

My main needs are gaming, local AI (stable diffusion and oobabooga), and browser stuff.

I have experience with Mint (recently) and Ubuntu (long ago). Any problems with my plan? Will my OS choice meet my needs?

Thanks!

  • PrettyFlyForAFatGuyEnglish
    6•1 year ago

    You wont know for sure until you try. the main sticking point for gaming on linux is anti-cheat, so if you play a lot of games with that then you may run into some trouble. otherwise ProtonDB is your friend. Most games these days are pretty easy to get up and running.

    A lot of AI tools are developed on linux anyway so you shouldn’t encounter too many problems there.

    Browsers are no problem at all. I recommend Firefox

    • HidingCat
      2•1 year ago

      the main sticking point for gaming on linux is anti-cheat

      This really needs to be emphasised, #1 reason for proton to not work is this. Depending on the games OP wants to run, there will be issues.

    • @Jumuta@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      2•1 year ago

      libreoffice is also a good browser and you can brag that you have a light blue browser icon that no one else has

      • callyral
        2•1 year ago

        …well except for chromium which has a blue icon which some may consider light blue

      • @sntx@lemm.eeEnglish
        2•1 year ago

        I think Jumuta is referring to LibreWolf, a fork of Firefox with some hardening pre-applied. I use it on machines on which I don’t want to spend time configuring my browser.