Mandatory distro question

水面の朧月 wrote

Decided to switch to using Linux on this brand new computer because a lot of reasons; one of them being that I kind of hate how hard it is to customize the look of windows. Everything looks beautiful, really customizable, consume little resources while being really smooth and all that. Despite being a total noob at anything computer related, I love it. Currently on Manjaro. I've been spending quite some time trying to get my games to work. Some of them work from the get go, some of them require a few days of looking up stuff on the internet and then there are a few games which just crash without any error message for me to work on or just have an issue which I have no idea how to describe.

Anyway, I have this habit of pressing windows + shift + s to take screenshots but holding down windows + shift makes my cursor draw an annoying red line that won't go away and stay on top of everything.  Still haven't figured it out how to fix that.

Congrats, love! If you're looking for eye-candy, Linux is the place to be; the KDE desktop environment is easily the best as far as customization goes. ^^

Although... It's worth mentioning, Manjaro really isn't a beginner's distro. I actually tried it myself on my laptop, and I gave up after days of constant tinkering. That's fine if you're into that, but if you want a distro that "just works" for gaming, I really couldn't recommend Kubuntu enough.

Backlash wrote
水面の朧月 wrote

Decided to switch to using Linux on this brand new computer because a lot of reasons; one of them being that I kind of hate how hard it is to customize the look of windows. Everything looks beautiful, really customizable, consume little resources while being really smooth and all that. Despite being a total noob at anything computer related, I love it. Currently on Manjaro. I've been spending quite some time trying to get my games to work. Some of them work from the get go, some of them require a few days of looking up stuff on the internet and then there are a few games which just crash without any error message for me to work on or just have an issue which I have no idea how to describe.

Anyway, I have this habit of pressing windows + shift + s to take screenshots but holding down windows + shift makes my cursor draw an annoying red line that won't go away and stay on top of everything.  Still haven't figured it out how to fix that.

Congrats, love! If you're looking for eye-candy, Linux is the place to be; the KDE desktop environment is easily the best as far as customization goes. ^^

Although... It's worth mentioning, Manjaro really isn't a beginner's distro. I actually tried it myself on my laptop, and I gave up after days of constant tinkering. That's fine if you're into that, but if you want a distro that "just works" for gaming, I really couldn't recommend Kubuntu enough.

Though with non-rolling releases like *ubuntu, you may have to manually update the kernel to get the latest gpu divers. It's not really difficult with ukuu though.

水面の朧月 wrote

Decided to switch to using Linux on this brand new computer because a lot of reasons; one of them being that I kind of hate how hard it is to customize the look of windows. Everything looks beautiful, really customizable, consume little resources while being really smooth and all that. Despite being a total noob at anything computer related, I love it. Currently on Manjaro. I've been spending quite some time trying to get my games to work. Some of them work from the get go, some of them require a few days of looking up stuff on the internet and then there are a few games which just crash without any error message for me to work on or just have an issue which I have no idea how to describe.

Anyway, I have this habit of pressing windows + shift + s to take screenshots but holding down windows + shift makes my cursor draw an annoying red line that won't go away and stay on top of everything.  Still haven't figured it out how to fix that.

Oh hey another arch user! Welcome to the fold~
For running games I cannot recommend enough a qemu virtual machine with windows on it
Outside of the initial setup there are no compatibility issues, but it requires compatible hardware
See here for more details
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/PCI_passthrough_via_OVMF

a month later

Manjaro is definitely not a total beginner's distro, but it works fine for everything I do daily, other than a few games that don't work with Valve's Proton just yet.

And yes, I know I have a lot of 'bloat', and that my cpu is older than dirt.  Shush.

tn5421 wrote

And yes, I know I have a lot of 'bloat', and that my cpu is older than dirt.  Shush.

I love old hardware, though! Especially from AMD. My old Vista PC had an Athlon and a basic graphics card, and it lasted me all throughout high school. ^^

Backlash wrote
tn5421 wrote

And yes, I know I have a lot of 'bloat', and that my cpu is older than dirt.  Shush.

I love old hardware, though! Especially from AMD. My old Vista PC had an Athlon and a basic graphics card, and it lasted me all throughout high school. ^^

To be fair, Athlon left a far better taste in people's mouthes than Bulldozer ^_^'

My laptop and my server run Fedora. My vm lab (windows 10 desktop host) has a slew of things. Ubuntus, kalis, remnux, pfsense. Metasploitable. 

I used to run arch on my laptop, and it was good. Never quite got around to customizing my awesome  wm how I wanted, and the defaults were lacking. I'm forced to use macs at work, so I went with gnome this time around.

mage_princess wrote

My laptop and my server run Fedora. My vm lab (windows 10 desktop host) has a slew of things. Ubuntus, kalis, remnux, pfsense. Metasploitable. 

I used to run arch on my laptop, and it was good. Never quite got around to customizing my awesome  wm how I wanted, and the defaults were lacking. I'm forced to use macs at work, so I went with gnome this time around.

Hmm, why Windows for the VM host?

Its also where I play games. And VMware licenses are cheap when you buy them off of bulk re-sellers on amazon. I got spoiled when school bought me a year long license for VMware.

mage_princess wrote

Its also where I play games. And VMware licenses are cheap when you buy them off of bulk re-sellers on amazon. I got spoiled when school bought me a year long license for VMware.

KVM licenses are free :^)