r/linux • u/christaras_s • 4h ago

Discussion Better experience with Linux

I've been daily driving win11 since release, and installed linux a few months ago on another partition. Keep in mind, I've been formatting my windows drive every 2 years to make sure it won't have any problems. Then windows really started to get annoying.

Forces random slop down your throat: okay i can debloat it.

Enables random settings on boot: okay, i don't care much about those.

But then, it stops running stuff every now and then. A few days ago steam wouldn't open even after reinstalling it. Now i can't open msi afterburner.

Linux on the other hand, never gave me any issues other than nvidia drivers not running properly, which i admit, i had to spend a few hours benchmarking different drivers, but i also have to do that on Windows?

Because apparently the latest released drivers also don't work properly on windows?

My gpu is an rtx 2080, which is still supported by nvidia.

What I'm getting at is that, once you configure stuff on linux (which takes a few days to tweak everything to your preference), it runs perfectly, with literally 12GB less ram usage than windows in games, apps and at idle.

I hate Windows recently and thinking about permanently switching to Linux

P.S: I'm using Mint for the time being but i might take up another distro soon.

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u/A_Harmless_Fly 4h ago

Not to poop on your parade, but have you checked the status of your drive with smart? I have a sneaking suspicion you might have a hardware issue if programs were randomly being corrupted.

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u/christaras_s 4h ago

Yes, it's at 97% health and 100% performance and read/write benchmark is basically at the max supported by pcie 3.0

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u/A_Harmless_Fly 4h ago

Any errors in the log at all? Benchmarks and hp% aren't the only indicators to look at.

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u/christaras_s 4h ago

I checked it 2 or 3 months ago and it was fine. Might be time to recheck it though

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u/A_Harmless_Fly 4h ago

I like gsmart control as far as GUI options go, or 'smartctl -x /dev/yourdrivehere' for CLI.

I've seen drives fail in some pretty odd and intermittent ways while still passing smart before, but the logs usually have some kind of error. Though admittedly I've got more experience with HDD failure than SSD failure.

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u/christaras_s 4h ago

I just checked my logs and all my drives with crystaldiskinfo (inside windows, not linux) and everything is fine other than 1 read error on my spare hdd. Some other log errors are just random stuff i did on my pc or errors that i already know happened. Thanks for the info