Newish user migrating to Linux
Newish user migrating to Linux
I have been using Arch Linux with i3wm for around 5 years for work, on my ThinkPad. I am fairly comfortable with pacman and setting up a distro. I have previously tried Mint, Manjaro, KDE Neon, Elementary, and MX Linux, all for the same use case (Work: where I need a browser, Slack, and a MongoDB GUI).
However, I have been using Windows on my desktop that I use for gaming and the Adobe suite (photoshop and illustrator mainly). With the increasing enshittification of Win11, I want to migrate full time to a Linux system on desktop as well. I prefer a more stable experience on this machine so I chose Pop OS (other suggestions are welcome. I like Plasma). I need some help getting started (I did some preliminary trials on a VM where I was able to run a small game off GOG, but the part I need help with needs some trickery wrt different disks).
PC specs:
- Ryzen 3 3300X
- 16 GB DDR4
- 1 NVMe boot drive, 1 SATA SSD for games, 1 HDD
- RX 570 8 GB
My copies of Photoshop and some of my games are pirated. I'm planning to run a Tiny10 VM for the Adobe stuff but the games will need to run on bare metal linux, off the NTFS formatted game drive. Edit : Most importantly, Content Manager and mods for Assetto Corsa need to work (not pirated), with my Thrustmaster T128
I would be grateful for a guide for this.
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Try openSUSE tumbleweed in a VM if plasma is your thing. IMHO is one of the best plasma implementations I've tried.
I've been using it for a year now, does everything I need. No problems whatsoever in gaming.
The only thing I had to do, was enable a extra repo in YAST for installing the codecs to be able to play movies and such.
Are you saying to try Opensuse Tumbleweed in a VM on his Win11 machine? Then if they like it, to pivot to opensuse full time?
Indeed I'm, try it in a VM in whatever system he wants.
openSUSE tumbleweed normal installation image doesn't have a live system to try. Although there is a live image to try it in a VM, but you can't use it to install. 🤷🏻♂️
Better to try it in a VM before having the work to install it on bare metal.
Although there is a live image to try it in a VM, but you can’t use it to install
I thought they had the net installer but I've never tried the live isos so I could be wrong.
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