https://i.imgur.com/2LHl42W.png My current desktop (pretty huh :P )
Ive been using linux on my main rig for a day now and I have gotten it to feel almost like home with new software and even got foobar and photoshop to work through wine. Also im using a version of ubuntu as arch ive been told arch linux is somewhat too advanced for a beginner and I really like the look of gnome aswell.
Up at the top right there is a small en1 with a drop down and a green i bubble for google chrome that I would like to remove though I cannot seem to find where to do that. The distro im using, pinguy, doesnt like right clicking and treats it like a left mouse click and I have went through the settings to also get it away but didnt get anywhere.
Another problem is I would like to play some windows steam game on linux. I have seen a person run skyrim on an acer ubuntu chromebook so I feel it can be done. I installed steam.exe through wine and then installed tf2 and dlc quest. Tf2 crashed as soon as it entered a game and the text was displayed incorrectly and dlc question would just crash at start up. Does anyone know how to fix this as I would hate to go back to windows. Thanks.
If you want to play games and use linux, your options are:
* running a VM with windows
* dual-boot
Dualboot is a PITA so you really want to have a VM.
And as far as I know, if your hardware supports VT-d and you have two GPUs (one for linux and one for VM, integrated + discrete is fine), you can achieve almost the same gaming performance in a windows VM, as you would with a machine actually running windows. And, of course, you can run everything.
So I recommend researching that.
To elaborate on Dissentient's point, there is a thread on this forum about that topic: https://teksyndicate.com/forum/linux/what-if-i-want-everything/157480
If tf2 refers to Team Fortress 2, then it and the steam client are both available natively in Linux, and there are many great games available through steam for Linux (including the Half-Life series).
Congratulations on attempting the switch, I really hope it works out for you!
Thanks and il will look into that. TF2 was just a tester as I had already tried it on linux for steam and I was wanting the see the fps difference. Sadly didnt get that far.
I really dont even want to have windows on my pc anymore even to have linux running in it. I would also be aware that linux was being emulated the whole time using it and prob hate that. I may duel boot if I have to.
Sorry for assuming you didn't know about steam on Linux. How was your experience with the Linux version of TF2? By the way, I noticed in your original post you mentioned Arch. If you ever decide you want to try Arch without the installation hastle, this would be a good way to go:
http://antergos.com/
It uses the same repositories as Arch and even has the same kernel, but it has an easy to use graphical installer.
Again, good luck with the transition.
You don't emulate linux, you emulate windows inside linux whenever you want to play games.
And well, you shouldn't hate windows. If you have problems with it, it's as much your fault as it is windows'.
I do not recommend dual-boot as it's just way too inconvenient.
TF2 on linux ran fine didnt really have any problems I felt like it was a bit laggy. I really need to spend more time on it to confirm that though. Antergos looks interesting I may try it as it doesnt look like ass :P People probably think this is nooby but linux also needs to look good for me as I didnt go and buy a good graphics card and monitor to run something that looks like windows XP.
When changing linux distros how would I go about doing so as I only have one HD right now? When I changed from windows I had to move shit with a usb to a laptop then back which took forever and I would rather not do it again.
If you don't have a seperate /home partition you will need to do the usb thing again, unfortunately. If you do, and all of the stuff you wanted to save was on it, then (in principle) you can just install a new Linux distro on your / partition and leave your /home partition alone (do this by making sure the installer will not format the home partition). This is how it's supposed to work "in theory" (I've never actually done it that way because I wanted to change my home partition in some way), so of course be sure you have up to date backups of what you want to save before attempting a distro switch.
I've learned to suck it up and stick to the Linux library, because it's slowly growing. I play Rust almost daily.
I have about 300 steam games and only 97 work on linux. Not only that but they are mostly source games which I couldnt see myself playing 24/7. I need my Fallout, I need my Skyrim.
Im aware if the computer is broken its normally my fault. I just hate windows now. I decided to duel-boot windows with linux running them on different drives.Works pretty well.
I still don't understand why you don't want to run a virtual machine instead of dual-booting. You know, you'd be able to play windows games and have access to your linux work environment at the same time.
Well I tried it and the performance wasnt there. I would want to play games like skyrim with 100+ mods. Not to mention I hate using virtual machine I can never get it to work, im always tinkering with it to find I have messed everything up.