The linux thread

[Retro*Derpy 3,827]

Since linux has been growing recently, I thought I'd make a general thread about it. Anyone is welcome to share anything linux-related, desktops, raspberry pi, IoTs, etc.

If you're curious about GNU/linux or it's distros, ask away! As for myself, I use linux mint(cinnamon) on my aging laptop and I have an arch linux build (hyprland) on my main desktop. I've done a lot of distro hopping, for myself and for school. I'm on my laptop at the moment so I'll share a screen shot. If you don't know, you can use the command "fastfetch" to get this result. It'll have to be installed in the terminal.

 

[Felis Amafeles 2,824]

My work needs to be done on Windows, but my laptop doesn't need Windows, so I'm going to switch its OS to Mint 

Edited July 6, 2025 by Felis Amafeles

[Street Light 886]

gosh im super interested in linux but i've squirreled it away in the back of my mind as super-smarty-pants pony stuff :3 idk why im so intimidated by it, i just am >w< 

[Crypty Scribbles 6,801]

17 hours ago, Retro*Derpy said:

arch linux

Neeeerd! ^o^ (Light-hearted)

I'm using basic Ubuntu, latest LTS version. No blowers nor whistles. A simple system for a simple guy ^•^

2 hours ago, Street Light said:

gosh im super interested in linux but i've squirreled it away in the back of my mind as super-smarty-pants pony stuff :3 idk why im so intimidated by it, i just am >w< 

It's nice to try new things. In any case you can always go back to whatever you're using now ^e^

To be honest, I'm not sure if I would be using Linux not being nerd by myself 9_9

[ZiggWheelsManning 16,460]

YouTube videos tell me Linux is very hard to use and not user friendly  

[Crypty Scribbles 6,801]

17 minutes ago, ZiggWheelsManning said:

YouTube videos tell me Linux is very hard to use and not user friendly  

That's true, Ziggy. YouTube videos never lie, that's scientifically proven fact 

[Artshine Aura 48]

omg what an aMAZING TIME to come back onto the forums i LOVE linux ive been getting so into it since february of this year, replacing my windows os with linux. initially i started off using kde neon, but after some distro hopping, i landed on tuxedo os, which is basically just kde neon but stable. ill probably switch to debian trixie when that releases though, since thatll have plasma 6.

anyways heres an obligatory screenshot of my desktop lol. i have a windows 7 theme over top it, and my wallpaper is a slideshow of random vrchat screenshots i have with me in them xP

21 hours ago, Retro*Derpy said:

I have an arch linux build (hyprland) on my main desktop.

ive been tempted to try out arch linux aswell as a tiling window manager thing like hyprland for awhile now, but it all seems so much more involved. i get switching to linux already is a little more involved than just continuing to use windows, but everypony always makes out arch to be alot more advanced to learn and manual and stuff 

[Espy 5,018]

I should probably try to move on from Windows 10. It seems like Native Instruments and Arturia would be the biggest pain to get working though (for me). Including their app managers. Arturia would suck the most if it doesn't work because I really like their stuff! 

 

I'm gonna place this here for myself later or if anyone else wants it:  https://linuxdaw.org

[Pentium100 2,367]

I use Debian on my servers and Ubuntu (with KDE) for some PCs, though if I wanted to install an new PC now, I would probably use Debian on the desktop as well. 

Linux is what I would say programmer-friendly, but not neccesarily user-friendly. It does have the "self-made" or "designed by programmers" feeling, similar to the devices I build for myselt. Windows (at least the older versions) is different in that more setting are easier to access without editing text files or using the command line. Creating a custom resolution with an nVidia card is easier on Windows for example.

Linux has the drivers for most stuff built-in, so usually most of everythign works immediately after installing. OTOH, if there is no built-in driver for some device (but there is one published by the manufacturer), you may have lots of "fun" trying to make it work. Or it may be easy.

Games on Linux run quite well (at least the ones I play), but if you have an older card (for me it was a GTX970) some games have way worse performance on Linux than on Windows on the exact same PC. Apparently there is some kind of compatibility problem and you need at least a RTX20 series card to overcome it. 

[Xada 617]

I am planning on setting up Mint cinnamon dual boot once Windows 10 stops getting updates in several months.

 

[Retro*Derpy 3,827]

On 2025-07-07 at 1:20 AM, Artshine Aura said:

omg what an aMAZING TIME to come back onto the forums i LOVE linux ive been getting so into it since february of this year, replacing my windows os with linux. initially i started off using kde neon, but after some distro hopping, i landed on tuxedo os, which is basically just kde neon but stable. ill probably switch to debian trixie when that releases though, since thatll have plasma 6.

ive been tempted to try out arch linux aswell as a tiling window manager thing like hyprland for awhile now, but it all seems so much more involved. i get switching to linux already is a little more involved than just continuing to use windows, but everypony always makes out arch to be alot more advanced to learn and manual and stuff 

Glad you're back! I love the setup its awesome!  The pinkie pie is super cute.

What a lot of arch gate-keepers won't tell you is that when you install arch you can just run "archinstall" and you run through it like a normal installer. You'd just have to get used to the pacman package manager and updating certain things manually. I've moved to cachyOS and it's very similar to arch (it is arch based). There is actually a hyprland install that comes with cachyOS installer if you're ever curious.

On 2025-07-06 at 10:11 PM, Crypty Scribbles said:

Neeeerd! ^o^ (Light-hearted)

I'm using basic Ubuntu, latest LTS version. No blowers nor whistles. A simple system for a simple guy ^•^

It's nice to try new things. In any case you can always go back to whatever you're using now ^e^

To be honest, I'm not sure if I would be using Linux not being nerd by myself 9_9

I actually just swapped to cachyOS from arch, just wanted to try it out and I'm loving it tbh. I was having troubles with arch working with proton and crash issues with the Nvidia drivers. (so I guess I can now say I use cachyOS btw) I could just of got the repos of cachyOS and still kept the arch install, but I wanted to see how it went from fresh install. Though my first linux distro was Ubuntu and I enjoyed it

 

 

On 2025-07-07 at 2:45 AM, Pentium100 said:

I use Debian on my servers and Ubuntu (with KDE) for some PCs, though if I wanted to install an new PC now, I would probably use Debian on the desktop as well. 

Linux is what I would say programmer-friendly, but not neccesarily user-friendly. It does have the "self-made" or "designed by programmers" feeling, similar to the devices I build for myselt. Windows (at least the older versions) is different in that more setting are easier to access without editing text files or using the command line. Creating a custom resolution with an nVidia card is easier on Windows for example.

Linux has the drivers for most stuff built-in, so usually most of everythign works immediately after installing. OTOH, if there is no built-in driver for some device (but there is one published by the manufacturer), you may have lots of "fun" trying to make it work. Or it may be easy.

Games on Linux run quite well (at least the ones I play), but if you have an older card (for me it was a GTX970) some games have way worse performance on Linux than on Windows on the exact same PC. Apparently there is some kind of compatibility problem and you need at least a RTX20 series card to overcome it. 

I have a couple servers in my server rack that run proxmox with a bunch of debian VMs; it works great! I like that I don't have to update it often  

I feel that "fun", especially on a "bleeding edge" distro. I forgot what it was I was trying to install, but I ended up having to find the source code and a compiler to get it to work. Though now I can just do a few terminal commands and it'll install most things.

I think the performance hit might have something to do with vulkin 1.3 architecture, and Nvidia also came out and confirmed a bug on the latest driver that drops about 8% performance with DirectX12 and linux. Hopefully patch 580 will bring some good news. If you're curious, cachyOS makes a custom proton version that you can install on steam. For deep rock galactic and MTG arena it has done a great job.

 

I'm gonna include my PC screenshot cuz why not  I've been getting into linux ricing as a learning experience and it's been pretty fun

Spoiler

 

[Pentium100 2,367]

10 hours ago, Retro*Derpy said:

I think the performance hit might have something to do with vulkin 1.3 architecture, and Nvidia also came out and confirmed a bug on the latest driver that drops about 8% performance with DirectX12 and linux.

It was not 8%, I would not care about that. With a GTX970, Derail Valley on Windows 8.1 got about 40-50fps and on Linux it got about 15fps on the same PC. With a RTX3090 the framerates are higher (obviously), but they are also more similar between Windows and Linux. Yeah, I think I read something about Vulkan that may be the cause of this.

I do not like "bleeding edge", I use Ubuntu LTS or Debian and dislike it when I have to use something else like CentOS and now I have to look for the equivalent of /etc/network/interfaces or some other config file. I also dislike updating anything and like seeing long uptimes. 

[Dawnshine Wonder 5,048]

On 2025-07-16 at 8:55 PM, Pentium100 said:

It was not 8%, I would not care about that. With a GTX970, Derail Valley on Windows 8.1 got about 40-50fps and on Linux it got about 15fps on the same PC. With a RTX3090 the framerates are higher (obviously), but they are also more similar between Windows and Linux. Yeah, I think I read something about Vulkan that may be the cause of this.

I do not like "bleeding edge", I use Ubuntu LTS or Debian and dislike it when I have to use something else like CentOS and now I have to look for the equivalent of /etc/network/interfaces or some other config file. I also dislike updating anything and like seeing long uptimes. 

I don't use high end electronics either, even my gaming PC can be only classed as mid tier at most, but Linux generally works better than Windows regardless of the fact because of how efficient it is, and as stated by somebody else, it is only because of unintentional coding that games would perform worse on Linux, with all things equal, Linux should be superior because there's less going on in the background.

I'm not partial to either Debian or Ubuntu, I use Debian on my Raspberry Pi 5, Ubuntu on my other system, but my experiences with them have been good and I discovered games on Steam work on Linux through Steam Deck which is good. It seems there will one day come a time when incompatibility with Linux will be a thing of the past, for anything DOS related, use DOSbox, I can now play Sim City 2000 on my Pi 5 if I wanted to no problem, and it doesn't crash as long as I don't go too extreme on overclocking.

Vulkan may be problematic in some areas but it obviously won't matter in simpler or less graphically intense games like Streets of Rage 4 when the frame rate is already at a stable 60fps, I use Vulkan on my system and not had a single issue from it.

[Pentium100 2,367]

12 hours ago, Dawnshine Wonder said:

for anything DOS related, use DOSbox

For anything DOS related, I use an actual old PC with DOS (and Windows 3.11). More fun that way. Similar for games that run on Windows 98 or XP - an old PC with that OS.

12 hours ago, Dawnshine Wonder said:

it is only because of unintentional coding that games would perform worse on Linux,

If a game is coded for Windows, then it makes sense that it would run worse on Linux, because the API calls are not the same, something that may be optimized on Windows may not be on Linux. I remember, at least in the past, there was a problem with Linux async file IO. There were multiple APIs to choose from and none of them worked very well, but the only async API on Windows worked better. I found out about that in relation to torrents and why a torrent client uses sync IO for disk, but that was a while ago, maybe it is fixed now. 

[Dawnshine Wonder 5,048]

12 hours ago, Pentium100 said:

If a game is coded for Windows, then it makes sense that it would run worse on Linux, because the API calls are not the same, something that may be optimized on Windows may not be on Linux. I remember, at least in the past, there was a problem with Linux async file IO. There were multiple APIs to choose from and none of them worked very well, but the only async API on Windows worked better. I found out about that in relation to torrents and why a torrent client uses sync IO for disk, but that was a while ago, maybe it is fixed now. 

Coded for Windows, mainly has to do with the popularity of the platform and Microsoft wanting control over their own video games. There is truth in what you say, however Windows 11 received some negative press not just because of its strict hardware requirements and mandating TPM 2.0 on its release years ago and not guaranteeing compatibility with older gen I series Intel processors, but it uses far too much memory.

I'm not a programmer myself however I do use my PC for gaming, and based on past experience I cannot say what Windows 11 uses on idle post installation is a good thing, a pagefile may be faster on an SSD than with a hard drive, but it is still considerably slower than RAM is so the amount of RAM Windows 11 uses on idle which is often in excess of over 8 gigabytes while using prefetch cache to justify this does not make me confident in it. Some of the stuff being prefetched isn't needed to begin with, if you're using an SSD, your system is likely already fast enough to load those programs without prefetch involved, all Windows is doing at that point is wasting RAM and depriving other applications of the RAM they may need later on to function. Ubuntu works differently it would seem as it only keeps things in RAM if they're needed at the time.

[Pentium100 2,367]

22 minutes ago, Dawnshine Wonder said:

Coded for Windows, mainly has to do with the popularity of the platform and Microsoft wanting control over their own video games.

Mainly it's the popularity of the platform. If you need to spend effort to make sure the game works on an OS, would you rather do it for a popular OS or one that only a few people use? I dislike Windows 10 and 11.

As for optimized APIs, IIRC, recently the Linu kernel got a patch that adds some functions to have Windows-style locking or something (called NTSYNC), this was done mainly to improe the performance of Windows games on Linux. 

24 minutes ago, Dawnshine Wonder said:

Ubuntu works differently it would seem as it only keeps things in RAM if they're needed at the time.

Linux caches stuff all the time, by default it even puts some programs into the swap file to free up memory for cache (you can disable that by setting vm.swappiness=1 in sysctl.conf). 

[Retro*Derpy 3,827]

I manage to get the battle.net launcher to launch and work through steam with cachyOS proton. If I ever get a steam deck, I might see if the custom proton version makes any noticeable difference on it.

I've been grinding diablo 2 resurrected with it, getting a stable 144 fps. Definitely like it more than using windows 11.

I also managed to get steam on cachyOS to read my games on my windows nvme drive. The whole point being I wanted to try Baldur's gate 3 on it without having to reinstall over 100gb. That said, I was having freezing issues and low 1% when playing on windows. It was becoming borderline unplayable. However on linux I have none of these issues. Game works perfectly fine, granted after fixing some controller issues.

[KPackratt 1,757]

Do any of you Linux users here do video editing? If so, what editor would you recommend for someone who has used PowerDirector and Windows Movie Maker? I'm thinking about switching to Linux on my secondary PC once the software I use drops support for Windows 10. I have Linux Mint on my old laptop (which originally ran Windows 8), so I most likely will go with that when the time comes.

[Dabmanz 2,161]

On 2025-11-20 at 4:38 PM, KPackratt said:

Do any of you Linux users here do video editing? If so, what editor would you recommend for someone who has used PowerDirector and Windows Movie Maker? I'm thinking about switching to Linux on my secondary PC once the software I use drops support for Windows 10. I have Linux Mint on my old laptop (which originally ran Windows 8), so I most likely will go with that when the time comes.

I only use my computer to check emails and watch videos these days but you should try kdenlive or shotcut which both have windows 10 versions to ease you into it before switching.

[Espy 5,018]

I've been testing different distros on a spare gaming laptop with the primary goal of installing FL Studio and having minimal audio recording issues with my interface, and gaming second.

I was happy with CachyOS the most, tl;dr everything was smooth and I was most comfortable with it. FL Studio was mostly fine other than FL Cloud not working, which... does that even matter if that works? 

So I'll be making the switch probably by next spring. I just need to finish up a project first.

 

On 2025-07-07 at 3:42 AM, Espy said:

I should probably try to move on from Windows 10. It seems like Native Instruments and Arturia would be the biggest pain to get working though (for me). Including their app managers. Arturia would suck the most if it doesn't work because I really like their stuff! 

 

I'm gonna place this here for myself later or if anyone else wants it:  https://linuxdaw.org

Lemme yap for a bit.

So far from looking at what plugins I've got on W10, yabridge and wine staging should be mostly fine. https://github.com/robbert-vdh/yabridge

I'm a lot more concerned with the Native Instruments software manager. That's apparently a headache to get running and there are times where it fails and refuses to run stuff like Kontakt properly because of it: https://linuxmusicians.com/viewtopic.php?t=26555

And it seems like they technically could make everything supported but they have no plans to do that, see this discussion: https://community.native-instruments.com/discussion/comment/251127

 

UJAM too, another software manager issue but there's a workaround it seems: https://linuxmusicians.com/viewtopic.php?t=26935

 

For Arturia, I did find this guide and it seems like it isn't as bad as I thought. Again, their software manager is what I was concerned with but it seems like it's not really a major issue: https://dev.to/neroblackstone/install-arturia-vst-on-linux-22i9

An admin on their forums (seems like he's an internal beta tester) said an ominous "yet" when asked about linux support: https://legacy-forum.arturia.com/index.php?topic=91789.0

But it looks like other issues arise in terms of CPU performance but the solution is simple at least: https://linuxmusicians.com/viewtopic.php?p=179721

 

I did forget about the Serum 2 synth, I heard it has weird issues where you have to trick it to work and it could have graphical and latency issues + Steve Duda has no intention of officially supporting Linux: https://xferrecords.com/forums/general/will-serum-ever-be-available-for-linux

It's a shame, it's a cool synth. I also have Serum 1 and that is also not officially supported but is less of a headache to set up apparently.

At least there's tons of other synths. Vital I think is natively supported and I think U-he came out with Zebralette 3 for free, which I've been wanting to try. I mean synthesis is different from that one but it looks cool. U-he is pretty cool actually, they jumped on trying to support Linux I think in 2014 which is relatively quite early for such a popular brand, but had issues supporting it by 2017, then picked it back up again going into the 2020's: https://www.kvraudio.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=564393&sid=5b78d76d09d58e1a6823ee1817d56302

 

FabFilter is another one. It should work fine with yabridge but they seem to toy with the idea of supporting linux natively, but then backing away from it. They've also expressed interesting in supporting raspberry pi too??: https://prod.fabfilter.com/forum/topic/6686/running-fabfilter-plug-ins-on-raspberry-pi#comment17460

But their current stance is no: https://prod.fabfilter.com/forum/topic/8148/yup-im-going-to-be-another-guy-to-make-a-linux-post#comment0

 

I have some instruments I like from Sampleson too but I can't find any info about it on linux, so I'll just try yabridge and see what happens. There's an organ I use sometimes which is actually this one: https://plugins4free.com/plugin/3117/

But it's an older version that did show it was native? The recent version I have I didn't see anything related to linux so it was probably dropped at some point which is interesting. 

 

The only thing that's a bit of a wild west is Intel Arc GPU performance. I have an A770 16GB and most of the information about Intel Arc performance is people saying to not buy one over a Radeon equivalent, which is not exactly helpful in my situation. Everything else is old info and discussion from a few years ago when it just launched or there were no discussions at all if someone started a topic. So I guess I'll have to find out myself. IF it ends up not working well then I have an RX 6700 XT that I can fall back to. That should be guaranteed to work well. But I like this A770, it's quirky but it's worked fine for me these few years.

 

Now comes the question of hardware support when I upgrade from my current audio interface. There's a lot of upgrades I want to make for my home studio but that's an entirely different topic.

Edited December 21, 2025 by Espy

[Dawnshine Wonder 5,048]

On 2025-12-21 at 6:50 AM, Espy said:

I've been testing different distros on a spare gaming laptop with the primary goal of installing FL Studio and having minimal audio recording issues with my interface, and gaming second.

I was happy with CachyOS the most, tl;dr everything was smooth and I was most comfortable with it. FL Studio was mostly fine other than FL Cloud not working, which... does that even matter if that works? 

So I'll be making the switch probably by next spring. I just need to finish up a project first.

 

Lemme yap for a bit.

So far from looking at what plugins I've got on W10, yabridge and wine staging should be mostly fine. https://github.com/robbert-vdh/yabridge

I'm a lot more concerned with the Native Instruments software manager. That's apparently a headache to get running and there are times where it fails and refuses to run stuff like Kontakt properly because of it: https://linuxmusicians.com/viewtopic.php?t=26555

And it seems like they technically could make everything supported but they have no plans to do that, see this discussion: https://community.native-instruments.com/discussion/comment/251127

 

UJAM too, another software manager issue but there's a workaround it seems: https://linuxmusicians.com/viewtopic.php?t=26935

 

For Arturia, I did find this guide and it seems like it isn't as bad as I thought. Again, their software manager is what I was concerned with but it seems like it's not really a major issue: https://dev.to/neroblackstone/install-arturia-vst-on-linux-22i9

An admin on their forums (seems like he's an internal beta tester) said an ominous "yet" when asked about linux support: https://legacy-forum.arturia.com/index.php?topic=91789.0

But it looks like other issues arise in terms of CPU performance but the solution is simple at least: https://linuxmusicians.com/viewtopic.php?p=179721

 

I did forget about the Serum 2 synth, I heard it has weird issues where you have to trick it to work and it could have graphical and latency issues + Steve Duda has no intention of officially supporting Linux: https://xferrecords.com/forums/general/will-serum-ever-be-available-for-linux

It's a shame, it's a cool synth. I also have Serum 1 and that is also not officially supported but is less of a headache to set up apparently.

At least there's tons of other synths. Vital I think is natively supported and I think U-he came out with Zebralette 3 for free, which I've been wanting to try. I mean synthesis is different from that one but it looks cool. U-he is pretty cool actually, they jumped on trying to support Linux I think in 2014 which is relatively quite early for such a popular brand, but had issues supporting it by 2017, then picked it back up again going into the 2020's: https://www.kvraudio.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=564393&sid=5b78d76d09d58e1a6823ee1817d56302

 

FabFilter is another one. It should work fine with yabridge but they seem to toy with the idea of supporting linux natively, but then backing away from it. They've also expressed interesting in supporting raspberry pi too??: https://prod.fabfilter.com/forum/topic/6686/running-fabfilter-plug-ins-on-raspberry-pi#comment17460

But their current stance is no: https://prod.fabfilter.com/forum/topic/8148/yup-im-going-to-be-another-guy-to-make-a-linux-post#comment0

 

I have some instruments I like from Sampleson too but I can't find any info about it on linux, so I'll just try yabridge and see what happens. There's an organ I use sometimes which is actually this one: https://plugins4free.com/plugin/3117/

But it's an older version that did show it was native? The recent version I have I didn't see anything related to linux so it was probably dropped at some point which is interesting. 

 

The only thing that's a bit of a wild west is Intel Arc GPU performance. I have an A770 16GB and most of the information about Intel Arc performance is people saying to not buy one over a Radeon equivalent, which is not exactly helpful in my situation. Everything else is old info and discussion from a few years ago when it just launched or there were no discussions at all if someone started a topic. So I guess I'll have to find out myself. IF it ends up not working well then I have an RX 6700 XT that I can fall back to. That should be guaranteed to work well. But I like this A770, it's quirky but it's worked fine for me these few years.

 

Now comes the question of hardware support when I upgrade from my current audio interface. There's a lot of upgrades I want to make for my home studio but that's an entirely different topic.

The RX 6700XT was an amazing graphics card for its price, I like AMD because they keep things in sensible budget ranges common people can afford, not being overly critical of Nvidia however one thing I would say about them is back then, they did not seem to offer very good options in that tier that had a lot of VRAM, 8gb for the RTX 3060 wasn't very good, a 12gb version existed but it was more costly, and the AMD video card you talked about had better game performance in the vast majority of cases. It probably would not be ideal for video editing either without Cuda support.

https://gpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/Nvidia-RTX-3060-vs-AMD-RX-6700-XT/4105vs4109

 

[Espy 5,018]

1 hour ago, Dawnshine Wonder said:

The RX 6700XT was an amazing graphics card for its price, I like AMD because they keep things in sensible budget ranges common people can afford, not being overly critical of Nvidia however one thing I would say about them is back then, they did not seem to offer very good options in that tier that had a lot of VRAM, 8gb for the RTX 3060 wasn't very good, a 12gb version existed but it was more costly, and the AMD video card you talked about had better game performance in the vast majority of cases. It probably would not be ideal for video editing either without Cuda support.

https://gpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/Nvidia-RTX-3060-vs-AMD-RX-6700-XT/4105vs4109

 

Yeah I originally got the RX 6700 XT after my RTX 2070 Super died on me. Still is a great card!

Well, weird story actually. You talked about spending money nonsensically in another thread so here's my story of that:

My RTX 2070 Super was artifacting a lot unfortunately and this was when the RTX 30 series had just launched but was difficult to get any decent GPUs due to crypto mining part 2 and the COVID pandemic.

I was able to get an RTX 3070 from Newegg, but it was a watercooled variant, so I made a whole plan to just go all out with the watercooling, which I did get some fittings and a CPU waterblock for. 

But then I got my hands on a RX 6700 XT from Best Buy. I used that one for a while instead and it was a really good experience.

I then saw an open box A770 16GB from B&H that was really really priced well at the time for any GPU, so I grabbed that just to try it out and it's been running fine for me since, other than maybe one or two games which don't have those issues anymore. It's the Intel LE version that was cut short (despite Intel saying it wasn't "limited edition") so I guess that's cool, even came with the sticker but whoever opened it before me kind mangled the box.

I know it's a downgrade from the AMD card but I do like it!

This chart is a little older now but it's what I used at the time (1440p is the resolution I use)

 

 

On a side-side note, this is currently my 3rd personal PC. I had to count how many I've actually built but it's gotta be in the 20's now, most being from this year so I can get some money in ever since I got laid off of my job mostly due to the whole US tariff war from earlier this year. I used to work at a Vietnamese tea cafe and it was getting expensive for them to import ingredients from Asian countries and they had to let me go so it could still be somewhat profitable for them. I was beginning to really hate working there anyways but that's a whole different discussion.

So right now I just have random PC parts hanging around but I want to exit since I've lost a lot of interest in it after this whole RAM issue because of AI. It's worse than GPUs because RAM is necessary for a PC to function and I feel gross having consistently tossed 32 GB of DDR4 into affordable ~$300 - 400 PC flip before, but now being able to barely fit 16 GB into it for around or slightly more than that when accounting for current pricing. The aforementioned RTX 3070 is one of many PC parts that I've just been putting up for sale so I can look into other income sources.

I have a higher appreciation for used hardware now. I think it's because I'm more comfortable with it than before.

Potentially looking into selling music CD's since I have like a few hundred or something of them when I'd bought a ton of them loose for extremely cheap a while ago. Already found some interesting ones just sorting through it. One of them is a very rare (almost lost media) indie metal rock band from I think Washington state? As well as a lot of Christmas and orchestral recordings.

Maybe vinyl records too. I have some duplicates of some oldies from the 40s and 50s.

It gives me an opportunity to listen to music I hadn't listened to properly before, since I would need to make sure nothing is skipping at least.

 

But anyways. Linux. I need a mental break and make some time to do the move after Christmas. 

Edited December 24, 2025 by Espy

[Xada 617]

I am considering switching to Bazzite but i only have one SSD to installed it on. Which has Windows in NTFS format. Would installing Linux format the drive to EXT4 or do i need to format the drive first before trying to install Bazzite Linux?

Edited January 1 by Xada

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4 hours ago, Xada said:

I am considering switching to Bazzite but i only have one SSD to installed it on. Which has Windows in NTFS format. Would installing Linux format the drive to EXT4 or do i need to format the drive first before trying to install Bazzite Linux?

In my experience, it does format the drive to EXT4, but I've only used two different distros of Linux, Ubuntu and Debian. What you could try doing is partition the drive before installing it, Grub boot loader usually deals with the rest.

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I just installed Linux.