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I mostly get what you're saying here. So say I have a 500gb drive, How much should be partitioned for /home and how much for root? Does it even matter? I knew that in Linux it all looks the same even though it's separate partitions. My biggest concern was running out of space on one partition and being mad that I didn't give it more. That's what I was trying to avoid when I went with a single partition. From your description I would have assumed /home doesn't keep much in there and doesn't need much space, but it looks like Steam installs games there so that's a little confusing. Sounds like it stores more than the equivalent of a Windows profile but that might just be a Steam thing. You guys aren't telling me that separate partitions can be used as one continuous amount of space are you?
I like the idea of being able to format the root partition and keeping all your config files and stuff but coming from Windows that makes me paranoid even though it shouldn't. I wouldn't trust something like that under Windows because of registry files and such. I know it's not at all the same in Linux but I'm the kind of person who still reboots every time they take a few minutes away from the PC because I still have my Windows 9x habits
I mostly get what you're saying here. So say I have a 500gb drive, How much should be partitioned for /home and how much for root? Does it even matter? I knew that in Linux it all looks the same even though it's separate partitions. My biggest concern was running out of space on one partition and being mad that I didn't give it more. That's what I was trying to avoid when I went with a single partition. From your description I would have assumed /home doesn't keep much in there and doesn't need much space, but it looks like Steam installs games there so that's a little confusing. Sounds like it stores more than the equivalent of a Windows profile but that might just be a Steam thing. You guys aren't telling me that separate partitions can be used as one continuous amount of space are you?
I like the idea of being able to format the root partition and keeping all your config files and stuff but coming from Windows that makes me paranoid even though it shouldn't. I wouldn't trust something like that under Windows because of registry files and such. I know it's not at all the same in Linux but I'm the kind of person who still reboots every time they take a few minutes away from the PC because I still have my Windows 9x habits
Here's something random I noticed. While checking out my secondary drive in Linux, I noticed a hidden Recycle bin folder that has 13gb of stuff in it. I have the recycle bin turned off in Windows so what the hell Microsoft?
I ran a 60GB SSD as my root drive for years and only ever used 75% of the total capacity.
Ya it really depends how many Linux packages you are going to really install.. and how big they tend to be. If your the type that developes software and is planning to have multiple versions of python and other frameworks installed that you know will take up space then go on the larger side. If you really are just using it as a dekstop and you are going to have a browser a email client and a few tools then as Maz is saying 40-50gbs is lots. I think SUSE one of the few distros that defaults to 2 partitions recomends something like 40 GB which I think is low but for many people is probably lots.
I wouldn't go deleting it or anything in Linux... windows tends to react badly to that. You must have some stuff in there... its also possible perhaps it wasn't empty when you turned it off ?
I was tempted but I figured I'd better not haha. Recycle bin never had anything in it so I have no idea what's up with that. I always turn it off and set Windows to ask before deleting files
MS does some strange things.... don't look at your drive partitions it will probably annoy you some more. lol
I know exactly what you're talking about. First noticed with Windows 8. Definitely some weird stuff going on at Microsoft
I got bored and started poking around my drives with gparted. Looks like Manjaro took that F2FS partition I made and converted it to ext4. Kind of lame oh but well. Would be nice if the installer warned you or something.
But F2FS is newer and that makes it more exciting!
I wanna install the new Ghostbusters game off the Epic store, trying to resist, but like I said at times the temptation is great...
I played it in Windows and it ran way worse than the original version did back when I played it. Choppy FMVs, ghosts getting stuck under the map, and game breaking crashes
I decided to do some very unscientific benchmarks. This is Tomb Raider 2013. Deault ultra settings at 1080p with motion blue and dof turned off.
Manjaro: View attachment 214059
Windows: View attachment 214060
This could be the difference between dx11 and Vulkan on Nvidia but still pretty disappointing. I've seen some other benchmarks where a user tried different DEs on the same distro and cinnamon performed the worst (8% difference from the fastest). I might install Manjaro LXQT and benchmark again.
My system specs can be seen here: https://pcpartpicker.com/user/GhostCow/saved/#view=YCRH99
Bear in mind that there is overheads in translating D3D to Vulkan/OGL that vary depending on the title. That's still perfectly playable with none of the daily issues encountered using Windows 10.
My point is you will notice Linux with DXVK actually outperforms Windows with DXVK.
Think he is playing the Linux native version of Tomb Raider. Which uses ferels conversion engine I believe. I remember the performance of that one just being ok. Game runs well enough but yes windows versions is faster. Shadow of the tomb raider uses Steam play.... I haven't played it but from what I understand the DXVK/Proton on that one gives up between 10-15% in performance. (which frankly is pretty standard of DXVK titles)
The only games that will run faster in Linux are ones with NATIVE vulkan support. Ones that use DXVK to convert DX are going to in general drop around 5-15%... with as you have noticed some being a lot worse.
To be 100% honest and fair... Most games run well under Linux. But anyone saying every game is going to run at = or better performance is being a bit overly rosy. There are a few examples of Vulkan Native games running perhaps even a little bit better under Linux... but dropping low double digits is in general what to expect. The biggest difference between today and 2 years ago... is just how many games are playable at a 10% drop, and that in general most games that run run properly. The days of missing textures or glitchy wireframes or some other sillyness are mostly gone. For the most part the stuff that doesn't start and run decently at this point is almost always due to stupid DRM and or badly written anti cheat systems. The DRM stuff especially is really bad.
To sort of see what you in general should expect from DXVK when it works this is about right. This video compares witcher 3 on Linux on a AMD GPU... with closed source and open source AMD drivers... and compares to windows and importantly windows running dxvk. (its just a .dll replacement you can run DXVK on windows translating DX to Vulkan) My point is you will notice Linux with DXVK actually outperforms Windows with DXVK. The drop in performance is from converting one API to another on the fly. Windows games with native Vulkan is where its at... to bad so few developers are really pushing Vulkan all that hard.
This is very interesting. I'll have to find a native Vulkan game that I can run on both and compare. The only game I can think of off the bat is Dota2 but I doubt that has a benchmarking tool and I hate mobas anyway
After that I decided to give Manjaro with LXQT a try. Everything seemed fine at first. Booted up Tomb Raider and averaged 13fps. Pretty bad. I then realized that I had forgotten to install the proprietary drivers from Nvidia. Did that and decided to see how things would go if I didn't reboot since I saw someone claim Linux is better than Windows because you don't have to reboot after installing video card drivers. That did not turn out to be true at all. Broken graphics everywhere in system apps and Tomb Raider crashed when I tried to run it. I rebooted and tried again but now steam won't even open. I think I'm just going to go back to Manjaro Cinnamon and stay there. Everything else I've tried seems way worse haha.
Who stated you don't have to reboot to install binary blobs? What about Ubuntu based distro's?
Ubuntu based would be best for Steam because that's apparently the only distro that's supported officially. The last time I tried Linux Mint I really didn't like it. Seemed like nearly every app in the repo was out of date and I got tired of adding ppas for nearly every single thing I wanted to install. It's even harder to go back to apt and PPAs after experiencing pacman and the AUR. Are there any better Ubuntu based distros?
I thought I'd seen a wild claim like that in the switch to Linux thread in the news forum. Might have dreamed that. Ubuntu based would be best for Steam because that's apparently the only distro that's supported officially. The last time I tried Linux Mint I really didn't like it. Seemed like nearly every app in the repo was out of date and I got tired of adding ppas for nearly every single thing I wanted to install. It's even harder to go back to apt and PPAs after experiencing pacman and the AUR. Are there any better Ubuntu based distros?
Also I'm not married to Cinnamon. I'd happily try another DE if it has a nice dark theme, easy to modify keyboard shortcuts, and gives the option to show full names on the taskbar instead of just icons
Forget I mentioned clear linux. lol
Anyway if you haven't tried Gnome give it a go. If you hate it so be it... but ime if you give it a couple days you'll be sold. I have talked to a lot of people that have switched... I do Linux consulting work and get asked all the time what distro, what de ect ect. IME people that start with gnome stay with Linux... those that try the imo stupid look alikes like cinnimon end up leaving. But to each their own... DEs are a personal taste thing I guess.
It was actually on my list but it probably needs more time before I try it. It might not even be worth it when I upgrade to an AMD system later this year. One of the guys working on Clear Linux also works on Solus which is one of the reasons I tried it.
Gnome 2 was ok back in the day but back then I preferred KDE. When Gnome 3 came out I didn't dig it at all. I get why some people like it but to me it feels like something designed for a touchscreen. It might be a superior workflow or whatever but it's not worth retraining myself when I'm happy with the classic desktop experience. I hear there is a classic mode now but I haven't tried it. After that short experience with lxqt I will say that gtk seems nicer though.
The first version of Gnome 3 rubbed people the wrong way. I would really say you haven't tried it too long though. Its not at all trying to be a touch screen UI. I think if MS hadn't copy catted it so poorly people wouldn't even remotely think that.
I used to work with an IT guy who swore by Gnome 3. I used to stand behind him mouth agape in confusion on how he could like it whenever he'd be showing it off. I might give it another try out of boredom anyway but I doubt the way it looks and feels has changed much since then. Even in Windows I'm not really the type to use search unless I don't know where something is. It's faster for me to pin the important things to the first page of the start menu and get to them in two clicks or one press of the super key and a click.
I might give KDE a shot too. The last time I used it I remember not liking it because it had way more options than I needed or wanted and I think I had trouble setting up the keyboard shortcuts like I like from Windows. The default keyboard shortcuts is a big part of what I like about Cinnamon but it seems like these days Cinnamon performance isn't great compared to other DEs
Maz really likes KDE... and to be honest I haven't tried it myself in a couple years again. Its a solid option as well as i understand it if your into the more traditional windows like UI. I believe they have done a lot of working improving display of GTK apps and such which was always my main complaint with it. I like QT but to me nothing looked right in KDE that wasn't using QT. I'm sure it is much better today.
Gotta say KDE is by FAR my favourite DE. Super customizable and really REALLY good fractional HiDPi support. It's also come a long way in the theming department. It's rare to run an app that doesn't look right these days.
GhostCow, don't bother with BSD unless you have a very specific reason to do so. It's still very much behind Linux IMO as far as using it as a desktop OS. But if you're bored go nuts