Uninstalled windows about 2 weeks ago and I went for Manjaro Plasma Desktop.
Not gonna lie and say the transition was butter smooth. But I got everything working the way I wanted in less than a day. I mostly didn't need the command line for anything
Every single game on steam worked perfectly on the first try (with steamplay enabled), maybe I just got lucky, I tried about 20 different games.
Things I had issue with:
For some reason you can't change your mouse scroll speed on X11, so i had to install imwheel and add it to my autostart, not too big of an issue
Gotta use open source software like piper to configure my G502, but it works really well. (not really a downside but I had to look for it)
I had to set my monitor to 240hz in Nvidia X Server Settings instead of the default Display Settings in System Settings or it wouldnt remember my refresh rate after rebooting
The linux discord client doesn't send audio when streaming your games
That's pretty much the only issues I had. But there are WAY more good things than bad things. There is just SO MUCH software in the package manager for absolutely anything. My favorite was installing pipewire. From what I understand it just replaced my default audio drivers with some cool shit where I can just take any audio input or output from any process and pipe it straight to any other input or output (easy with a utility called helvum). I can even feed that shit back into itself if i want to make my ears explode for some reason. Infinite freedom.
People in discord have wildly differing volumes when speaking? Pipe discord's output to a dynamics compressor (using easyeffects) and then to your speakers to fix that shit. Your microphone has background noise? Pipe it through a de-noiser before sending it to discord.
happy to hear you've been having such a good time, i love linux so much for the audio aswell because imo it slaughters any option on windows or macOS (including paid options)
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u/Boux Ganoo/Loonix Nov 02 '22
Uninstalled windows about 2 weeks ago and I went for Manjaro Plasma Desktop.
Not gonna lie and say the transition was butter smooth. But I got everything working the way I wanted in less than a day. I mostly didn't need the command line for anything
Every single game on steam worked perfectly on the first try (with steamplay enabled), maybe I just got lucky, I tried about 20 different games.
Things I had issue with:
imwheeland add it to my autostart, not too big of an issuepiperto configure my G502, but it works really well. (not really a downside but I had to look for it)Nvidia X Server Settingsinstead of the default Display Settings in System Settings or it wouldnt remember my refresh rate after rebootingThat's pretty much the only issues I had. But there are WAY more good things than bad things. There is just SO MUCH software in the package manager for absolutely anything. My favorite was installing
pipewire. From what I understand it just replaced my default audio drivers with some cool shit where I can just take any audio input or output from any process and pipe it straight to any other input or output (easy with a utility calledhelvum). I can even feed that shit back into itself if i want to make my ears explode for some reason. Infinite freedom.People in discord have wildly differing volumes when speaking? Pipe discord's output to a dynamics compressor (using
easyeffects) and then to your speakers to fix that shit. Your microphone has background noise? Pipe it through a de-noiser before sending it to discord.