So I just spent the entire day yesterday installing Linux. I don't know what got into me, but I just felt like trying to install Linux again. I have attempted to install it before like, 3-4 times, but every time it ended up with me installing windows again after just a few days. The worst case was when I thought I could handle Arch Linux... Oh boy I was mad back then. I remember that I tried to install some NVIDIA drivers for my GT 440 card, and replace the nvidia drivers with the noveau drivers, but for some reason no matter what I did I could not get it to work. I kept getting these errors that I couldn't find any solution to online, even though I followed every step correctly. It got me so frustrated that I felt like breaking the computer, because I had spent hours upon hours just getting that far, just to see everything fall apart for something as simple as a graphics driver. I don't quite remember what other distros I have tried, but I remember that i have tried ubuntu/kubuntu/xubuntu/etc several times.
Yesterday I started by installing ubuntu, but for some reason it just felt slow, the sound didn't work, and I was overall not very satisfied with it. I decided to install something else, so I spent hours upon horus trying to install a new one. I kept getting errors in the start of the installation (I was using UNetBootIn - both on my HDD and a small USB stick). After a few hours of trying a dussin distros, I decided to reinstall windows and install from there. I got a few more failurs on windows, but in the end I realised the problem was in UnetBootIn. But after all, I was glad all those failures happened, because I'm SUPER HAPPY with the distro I'm on right now, and I probably would not have tried this if it weren't for all those failures. I'm now sitting on a Fedora 20 x64 installation (with Gnome 3) and I must say that everything just works perfectly. What made it work for me was just to... Use a different program to "burn" the iso to my usb stick. I used the netinstall because of my usb stick being VERY small, and the installing took quite a while due to my internet not being blazingly fast, but in the end it was worth all the time spent on it. I'm now downloading a few steam games, and I hope everything will work well. I have installed Nvidia Drivers, activated hardware acceleration for the graphics... And I seem to be able to play 1080p videos without any problem now, so hopefully I shouldn't get too many performance problems.
Is anyone else there playing games on Linux? What distro are you using, and have you encountered any problems with using linux as far as gaming goes?
Personally I plan to install Virtualbox for the games that MUST have windows on them. Atleast for Visual Novels, as those aren't demanding at all, apart form needing windows and a Japanese locale that is. But for everything else, I will try my best to see if I can use wine/other to make the games that aren't natively available for linux to work. Either way, Linux support seems to be increasing a lot lately.
Yesterday I started by installing ubuntu, but for some reason it just felt slow, the sound didn't work, and I was overall not very satisfied with it. I decided to install something else, so I spent hours upon horus trying to install a new one. I kept getting errors in the start of the installation (I was using UNetBootIn - both on my HDD and a small USB stick). After a few hours of trying a dussin distros, I decided to reinstall windows and install from there. I got a few more failurs on windows, but in the end I realised the problem was in UnetBootIn. But after all, I was glad all those failures happened, because I'm SUPER HAPPY with the distro I'm on right now, and I probably would not have tried this if it weren't for all those failures. I'm now sitting on a Fedora 20 x64 installation (with Gnome 3) and I must say that everything just works perfectly. What made it work for me was just to... Use a different program to "burn" the iso to my usb stick. I used the netinstall because of my usb stick being VERY small, and the installing took quite a while due to my internet not being blazingly fast, but in the end it was worth all the time spent on it. I'm now downloading a few steam games, and I hope everything will work well. I have installed Nvidia Drivers, activated hardware acceleration for the graphics... And I seem to be able to play 1080p videos without any problem now, so hopefully I shouldn't get too many performance problems.
Is anyone else there playing games on Linux? What distro are you using, and have you encountered any problems with using linux as far as gaming goes?
Personally I plan to install Virtualbox for the games that MUST have windows on them. Atleast for Visual Novels, as those aren't demanding at all, apart form needing windows and a Japanese locale that is. But for everything else, I will try my best to see if I can use wine/other to make the games that aren't natively available for linux to work. Either way, Linux support seems to be increasing a lot lately.
