I finally nuked windows

I have been daily driving a dual booted laptop for the past two years. After a year of distro hopping I settled with fedora + kde and never looked back. I really liked the auto nvidia driver config and it made everything so pleasant to work. Since the last 8 or 9 months I decided to do gaming using bottles and proton ge. I cannot afford to buy games and bottles is a God send at that. Now I realized that I had not logged into my windows partition in over 6 months. So I logged in to check and it told me it needs to download 8 gigs of updates. That sent me into rage and so clean installed everything to be fedora. I have 250 gb of storage locked in limbo because of windows( I have a 512 gb ssd so it was a lot) and today after everything was setup, the os took only around 20gb minus the games. Never felt happier.

Disgruntled,

I nuked my Windows 11 and went with Fedora KDE, too.

TwinTusks,
@TwinTusks@bitforged.space avatar

I only use Windows for work nowadays, I have a mind to swap it with Linux too but afraid it’ll mess up with some programs.

const_void,

This community has become nothing but these kinds of posts every day. I’m considering unsubscribing because it’s becoming so bad.

vamputer,
@vamputer@infosec.pub avatar

Maybe the mods can restrict it to, like…Windows Wednesday or something.

One day a week, everyone can post about leaving Windows, why Windows sucks, why Windows is gonna fail in 2024, maybe post a picture of their monitor saying “Now Uninstalling Windows,” all the good shit we’ve seen a hundred times by now.

Then, we can all get the hell on with our lives until next week.

haui_lemmy,

Great idea. I hope they make more things like this on lemmy. Megathreads, themed weekdays/days of the month. That was fun on the other place.

IsoSpandy,

I am sorry if my post made you feel bored. But please don’t unsubscribe. What kind of post do you want to see on this platform? I am sure people can reach a common ground my mutual discussion.

MrOzwaldMan,

8 gigs of update after leaving for 6 months is a sensible thing to occur. I don’t know why it is a thing to be enraged by.

I mean, if you don’t update an OS and you come back to check go updates, it will pile on to become a huge update like the 8 gigs.

Lastly, don’t distrohop because it is not there, there is always something that exists that can give you what you want.

powermaker450,
@powermaker450@discuss.tchncs.de avatar

what do you mean by your windows storage being “in limbo”?

IsoSpandy,

Basically the windows partition was taking up around 250 gb. And wasn’t even booting into it. Sure I could access it from Linux, but it was literally useless.

powermaker450,
@powermaker450@discuss.tchncs.de avatar

ah I see. at first I interpreted it as you couldn’t reclaim the space from windows

j4k3,
@j4k3@lemmy.world avatar

My laptop is the same except, I keep a Windows partition because the RGB keyboard controller is only available in a Windows app. That Windows partition exists in a post apocalyptic dystopia where Windows belongs; it has never, nor will ever see the internet. It is blocked my my network firewall. Windows is like a less than useful bootloader options tab.

ame,

Not knowing which keyboard laptop combo you have, but have you looked at openrgb? Works nicer than the stock tool I was using in my experience!

Anticorp,

Would that work with my Aoris 3070 ti?

ame,

Don’t know, but I’d just try it out and see if it works. It detected my motherboard, mouse, keyboard, everything. It was just such a relief after trying and failing to get the stock (windows only) software on linux running

Anticorp,

Thank you! I’ll give it a shot.

j4k3,
@j4k3@lemmy.world avatar

Thanks for the suggestion. I’ll look into it. I’m a bit skeptical because the changes made in Windows are persistent, the secondary function keys give quick access to some of these features (but only 3 course brightness PWM settings for RGB), but mostly because there is a device on the USB device tree that is unknown to the Linux kernel on mainline-fedora.

Maybe there is some kind of kernel configuration option that just needs to be added, but the bootloader rejects custom keys generated for secure boot. Without my own keys I’m stuck with the shim and can’t run my own signed kernel. It might be possible to set the keys by booting into UEFI with Keytool, but my motivation hasn’t carried me that far into the problem yet. I could be wrong and the unknown USB device could be unrelated, and openrgb could work. Thanks again.

terminhell,

It will depend on the specific hardware, but I can vouche for openrgb. It works for me g502 hero mouse, and my asrok mobo/aio coolers fan RGB. Infact, I have more options than the motherboard gives me lol.

loops,

https://beehaw.org/pictrs/image/387a5177-fb29-481a-9276-d561794627dc.webp

the16bitgamer,
@the16bitgamer@lemmy.world avatar

using bottles and proton ge

I don’t think it’ll make much of a difference, but according to the git repo, you should be using wine-ge instead. Also Lutris is another option that does the same thing, but has easy install scripts for GOG, Epic Games, Ubisoft Connect, and EA App.

Telodzrum,

My process flow has been Steam, if not Steam then Heroic, if not Steam or Heroic then Lutris. I have yet to find a game unplayable.

Anticorp,

The only thing I haven’t figured out how to do is get Fusion 360 running stable.

daf,
@daf@lemmy.world avatar

Also checkout Heroic Launcher, Epic gives free games every week, there’s plenty of fun to have with those too.

skullgiver,
@skullgiver@popplesburger.hilciferous.nl avatar

I get about 4GB of updates twice a month, with a couple gigabytes of updates every week or so because of Nvidia and Flatpak. That’s Manjaro, though.

Fedora slowly trickles their updates into your system, but I don’t think it’s much smaller. You’ll get small updates every day rather than huge updates every month.

Not saying your switch to Linux was bad or anything, but maybe temper your expectations.

sxan,
@sxan@midwest.social avatar

This is why I stay away from Flatpack and Snap (and anything node or Electron). If I get a gig with my weevly Arch update, I think it’s a lot.

Can’t avoid it with some programs, but if there are options, there’s a set of technologies I avoid like the plague.

skullgiver,
@skullgiver@popplesburger.hilciferous.nl avatar

The Flatpak issue is specifically because of distributions technicalities related to the proprietary driver. On AMD or Intel this isn’t a problem at all, in fact the block based update mechanism is much more efficient than most distro updates. It’s rather annoying, ur I believe it’s being worked on by the Flatpak devs.

Manjaro chooses to keep software back for a while, so multiple weeks of major updates all come at once. Add to that CUDA, the Nvidia Docker container, and LaTeX, and you easily get multiple gigabytes per update. It’s not really a problem in the age of terabyte SSDs and gigabit internet, even if it does feel quite pointless.

I’ve never really had many issues with Electron on Arch based distros. Arch packages most Electron applications as the required bits for a single Electron package that gets updated individually. On all other distros, Electron does waste a lot of space, though.

SuperIce,

Why are large packages a problem? Are you running low on disk space?

IsoSpandy,

I also don’t bother with Flats and snaps. Too much hassle. I like the fact that Linux uses system wide linkable so files.

IsoSpandy,

It wasn’t the fact that I got updates that bothered me. It’s the fact that this update will take up more space on my disk and not replace previously occupied 8 gb that irked me. Some how, the space occupied by windows jut keeps on increasing.

terminhell,

What blows my mind about windows updates is just how long they take to actually install. It’s not even the reboots that bother me. Just the sheer time frames.

skullgiver,
@skullgiver@popplesburger.hilciferous.nl avatar

Yeah, that’s always puzzled me as well. Part of the reason is that Windows does a lot more than your average Linux distro, and another part is probably that Linux lacks proper antivirus, but even then Windows Update has always seemed weirdly inefficient to me. It seems to be stuck diffing/decompressing on a single core, barely hitting the SSD until it does everything at once.

AlmightySnoo, (edited )
@AlmightySnoo@lemmy.world avatar

For anyone wondering what Proton GE is, it’s Proton on steroids: github.com/GloriousEggroll/proton-ge-custom

For instance, even if you have an old Intel integrated GPU, chances are you can still benefit from AMD’s FSR just by pushing a few flags to Proton GE, even if the game doesn’t officially support it, and you’ll literally get a free FPS boost (tested it for fun and can confirm on an Intel UHD Graphics 620).

IsoSpandy,

We all just bask in the brilliance of a glorious eggroll.

Father_Redbeard,
@Father_Redbeard@lemmy.ml avatar

Hell yeah! Welcome, from an admittedly also new full-time Linux user.

lemmyreader,

Welcome to the Penguin party - you are free now :) And thanks for sharing your OS adventure.

IsoSpandy,

Glad to. Sharing the holy word my friends.

Jayb151,

Man, I had fresh imaged windows 11, and windows update nuked my bios. Never again.

I installed endeavor, but the lack of a GUI for installations bothered me. Installed kubuntu last night.

Mereo,

I’m curious, how did it nuke your bios?

Jayb151,

I mean…I Said windows did it lol.

But for real, I selected to update my firmware from within Windows update. I tried for a couple days, but was not able to recover it. Since I had an HP pre built, I used it as an opportunity to upgrade. I got a new motherboard and a couple parts and I’m back on my feet.

JoeKrogan,
@JoeKrogan@lemmy.world avatar

Welcome to the party pal

IsoSpandy,

Thank you. Drinks on me!!!

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