i switched(dualbooted) few days ago and its been great.

i got nvidia drivers to work pretty easily with ubuntu handling it for me

brave feels faster on ubuntu than windows 11,i got all my pirated games to work with Faugus Launcher.

i got mcontrolcenter as replacement to msi dragon center and it works good.

i got mongohud(or whatever its named) to work in games so i can see the fps.

i customized my grub look and made it look better.

and i overall love how ubuntu feels and looks,and im comfortable with it. i will stay with linux.

edit:

i had some issues with it but they were easily solved after i searched and used ai for help. like mcontrolcenter needing to have some lines edited then recompiled and installed. stuff like that. im also trying to figure out why 60fps videos on yt framedrop to solve it. it did on windows until i made the whole browser run using gpu. so im sure i will find a way to solve it. any tips welcome

  • lovingisliving@anarchist.nexusEnglish
    8·
    2 hours ago

    I also switched to Ubuntu from windows not too long ago, but in my case it was from windows 10. It is a night and day as far as the overall experience.

      • 0t79JeIfK01RHyzo@lemmy.mlEnglish
        1·
        3 minutes ago

        I used Chrome for many years and switched to Firefox because it performed noticeably better when multitasking. I noticed Firefox failing me some like a year or more later, and now I watch all videos on the internet through mpv. I’ve never been happier, I have x2, x4, or even like x128 speed on videos. Subtitle support isn’t usually as integrated, but I have whisperX and transcode my clips with ffmpeg if I need them.

        I’m a very happy Linux user.

        I even played a YouTube channels videos (over 1500) on random mode for an hour while driving today in the car. If people rode in the car with me, I’m sure they’d hate me, but it honestly made me so happy to be able to do all of it.

        My experience with Gnome is that it’s good, but it’s lacking in some areas slightly. Like I think their video recorder is a toy recorder. (not for serious production video) And I think OBS videos through pipewire is also not production ready for streamers, I can’t stream through it without dropping lots and lots of frames. (like maybe 45 FPS with a 4090? and I think that’s being generous)

        My experience with KDE is that these issues are resolved (or solved already?) more often. I use Gnome still, and maybe I’ll contribute soon in the future if my issues aren’t all user errors, but I would be embarrassed to recommend Gnome to someone who is making money from recording themselves on the computer.

        I think you should be able to watch videos on YouTube at 60 FPS finally, but I remember when I first switched to Linux like 3 years ago after buying a 4090, I couldn’t find a distro that could handle 2x speed on YouTube without lagging and failing when watching 4k. (15 years after the XKCD comic?)

      • Dave.@aussie.zone
        3·
        48 minutes ago

        Brave’s been making, uh, some controversial philosophical design choices lately.

        I mean, they had some before, but now they also have a few more lately that have riled people up a bit.

  • Bryce@mastodon.world
    2·
    1 hour ago

    @steam I’m glad you’re liking #ubuntu 🙂

    It was the first #linux distribution I played with back around the mid 2000’s and I liked it back then too.

    I’ve mostly played with Linux in VMs these days, but I got a Linux desktop a while back that runs #popos and I think I enjoy that more than Ubuntu.

    • BCsven@lemmy.ca
      41·
      13 minutes ago

      There’s a discovery center store, or YAST2 GUI software center. This isn’t the 90s.

    • steam@programming.devOP
      2·
      15 minutes ago

      it was fine. on ubuntu its mostly sudo apt install appname so i got used to it. but if i can’t find an app i search for it and see the instructions there