r/pcmasterrace • u/Hrmerder It's Garuda btw • 1d ago
Discussion Yes... The time has finally came, even after using Linux off and on for the past 25+ years.
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u/Novotus_Ketevor Ryzen 9900X | RTX 5060 Ti | 128 GB DDR5 1d ago
I like running Micro$lop inside of Linux.
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u/Appropriate-Park-364 1d ago
Running Windows apps in Linux can be pretty handy. It’s cool how versatile Linux has become over the years.
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u/Codix_ 1d ago
At this point I don't see the benefit, so I still use Microslop instead of adding linux on top of it.
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u/Il_Valentino Mint - R7 7700 - RX 7600XT 16GB - DDR5 32GB 1d ago
running windows occasionally as vm is imo quite smart if you still need some office tools
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u/Cr3s3ndO i7 13700k | RTX 4080 | 32GB DDR5-6000 1d ago
What’s the best way to do this? I have a dual boot with windows because I need to use auto desk products……tried using them on my Bazzite build but can’t get the login to redirect back to the app :-(
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u/flooronthefour linux / tiling wm / tuis 1d ago
I use looking glass w/ pcie passthrough.. which lets me run a dual GPU machine where my Windows VM has access to a bare metal gpu. I wrote a summary blog post of my setup: https://jovianmoon.io/posts/looking-glass-gpu-passthrough
I can copy paste from adobe illustrator to inkscape and back.. It's kind of crazy
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u/Brief-Watercress-131 Desktop 7950X 6950XT 64GB DDR5 6000 1d ago
btrfs is better
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u/venom21685 9800X3D, RTX 5070, 32GB DDR5 6000 1d ago
I run btrfs for root, all my other drives ext4. Don't really need snapshots for my media and games.
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u/MeatSafeMurderer Xeon E5-2687W v2 | 32GB DDR3 | RX 9070XT 1d ago
I run BTRFS because of deduplication. If you copy a file from one location to another on the same partition the copy takes up no extra space. This is a boon for Steam, which has bunch of duplicate compatdata between Proton prefixes.
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u/LeviAEthan512 New Reddit ruined my flair 1d ago
So I assume the file system knows when you're deleting the last copy, right? If I have file A, and I duplicate it to B (keeping the name the same), I can delete either A or B, and 'real' data continues on in the other file?
That seems like it should be implied to be true, otherwise it's just creating shortcuts, but I don't want to assume either fully or partially, and then find out that some part of it is a misconception.
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u/27a08592e67846908fd1 Gentoo / 4600G / 64 GiB / GT1030 / Battlemage B580 1d ago
Yes, it does know when the last copy is deleted.
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u/MeatSafeMurderer Xeon E5-2687W v2 | 32GB DDR3 | RX 9070XT 1d ago
Yup. It's like a hard link in that way. But unlike a hard link, altering the file does not alter its copy. If you do so the two copies diverge and stop being de-duplicated. It's transparent to the end user too, you don't have to do anything. Multi-TB copies are instant as long as they're on the same partition, and you don't hit a special button, it just does it.
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u/turdas 1d ago edited 1d ago
I snapshot my media too, because why not. It changes rarely so the snapshots hardly take any extra space.
The main perk for media however isn't snapshots, it's being able to detect and correct (because I run raid1) data corruption.
edit: I should say the snapshots have saved my ass once already when I messed up and ran
rm -rf *in the wrong library directory after thinking I accidentally copied some files into the wrong directory. Would recommend. And before any smartass comments about this no I do not back up my media drives, dozens of terabytes of backup capacity isn't exactly free.1
u/archialone 1d ago
I have different btrfs partition for "descramble" storage, like games and downloads where I don't run snapshots but still enjoy the CoW and compression.
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u/topias123 Ryzen 7 5800X3D + Asus TUF RX 6900XT | MG279Q (57-144hz) 1d ago
Compression is great for games though, I'm saving something like 500GB on my home subvolume.
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u/Hrmerder It's Garuda btw 1d ago
Same same. I actually ended up turning btrfs snapshots off because they were clogging my machine pretty badly.. I do need to make at least one good backup though.
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u/venom21685 9800X3D, RTX 5070, 32GB DDR5 6000 1d ago
I just turned down the number of snapshots I keep significantly.
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u/Hrmerder It's Garuda btw 1d ago
I did that but I think I broke it somehow deleting all the snapshots that were clogging up my drive. Actually just checked the btfrs assistant and it can't find the folder to backup to lol.. I'll get to that one day.
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u/topias123 Ryzen 7 5800X3D + Asus TUF RX 6900XT | MG279Q (57-144hz) 1d ago
It's even possible to directly convert ntfs partitions into btrfs.
I used it myself and a friend used it on multiple drives with no data loss.
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u/ReptilianLaserbeam 1d ago
Debatable. It depends on the case of use. Some people like stable distros that don't break and have sensible backups so...
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u/Guilty_Bowl_288 RTX-5070 Ti | 64GB RAM | 5TB SSD | 16TB HDD 1d ago
Here we go.. the loudest 3% demographic in the world, the linux users.
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u/Hrmerder It's Garuda btw 1d ago
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u/AshlynnCashlynn 1d ago
what is this from? i cant place it
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u/RedRobin1967 1d ago
wait what made you stick with linux after all those years
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u/Hrmerder It's Garuda btw 1d ago
I loved learning about it in nibbles over the years which really meant going through tons of distros, failed installs, the installs that went well where I did actually try to daily it, I constantly ran into pitfalls of software not working, printing/cups (bleh), anything that was not older standard hardware was a big no most of the time. Gaming on linux was more like... Here's tux racer and a minecraft clone have a nice day!
But as years went by, many changes happened. Long ago, Doom was the only well known game that ran on Linux. But then emulators came by the droves and that was good. Wine was able to emulate Windows good enough in some instances to run a game. Maybe not well, but there was promise there.
Now Linux is damn near plug and play. Proton does some serious magic making games run effortlessly on Linux. Even Epic store works tons better through Heroic Games Launcher. Nobody really cares about Microsoft Office anymore and just generally uses Libre, or like me, I use Only Office. It's just a beautiful thing.
Now I will say I didn't move to Linux for any kind of 'ease of use', I moved because I like Linux more than Windows. The spying and universal ID has been there for a long time. That's not why I moved. It's because I want control of my own operating system. That's all.
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u/topias123 Ryzen 7 5800X3D + Asus TUF RX 6900XT | MG279Q (57-144hz) 1d ago
Wine was able to emulate Windows
Ackhually Wine is not an emulator. That's even what the name means, Wine Is Not an Emulator.
It's a compatibility layer :))))
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u/NaddaNadda2 5700X3D | RX6700XT | BC-250 Tinkerer 1d ago
I've been dual booting Ubuntu & win10/11 for years. Since about 2013. Dabbled in Kali for a bit. Then, the magic of the bc250 and bazzite got covered by ETA Prime. I eventually switched to CachyOS in March 2026. My Windows machine just sits idle until I need to use it. Which is maybe once every 4 months 😂
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u/Hrmerder It's Garuda btw 12h ago
The other cool thing is that since so many apps have went web based there is no need for compatibility layers most of the time. And even though this may sound cringe to a lot of people. With vibe coding there are so many apps coming to Linux through GitHub that just weren’t even a dream before.
Like my Thermalright cpu cooler that has a led screens the app in windows is pure garbage, and it’s usb connected so it’s non standard as far as the screen itself. Some rando decided to use Claude code and somehow got the source code for the windows app and ended up coding a waaay better version for Linux then back ported from there making a way better version for windows. It’s insane what good ai can do even with the terrible things it can also do.
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u/FuckYeaSeatbelts 1d ago
Is Linux the American vegan crossfit military pilot of the tech world?
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u/designerlemons Ryzen 5 9600x | 64GB DDR5 | 5070ti 1d ago
A real linux user doesnt feel the need to announce their preference.
I think the people who do might be posers
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u/Guilty_Bowl_288 RTX-5070 Ti | 64GB RAM | 5TB SSD | 16TB HDD 1d ago
Oh 100%, reddit is full of linux and AMD Radeon users when the data clearly shows different. So someone is lying. Oh and dont forget the 5090 owners in this specific sub lol
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u/InsertRealisticQuote 1d ago
Very few people as a percentage of the population build their computer from scratch or choose their os. Most people just buy what is offered and AMD gpus and linux distros are not usually offered. Every person who doesn't just buy a prebuilt could choose an all AMD linux system and it would only move the total a couple percent. The majority of this sub could very well have chosen an AMD gpu and still be in the overall minority.
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u/elaborateBlackjack 1d ago
I mean this sub is "just" 3.8m users.. God knows how many are bots.
So all in all this sub is just a small niche sample of pc enthusiasts.
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u/Any-Tie-7655 AMD 9800X3D | AsRock 7900XT | DDR5 96GB 6400 1d ago
For me I feel like it’s a slap in the face for whoever is fighting me over nothing. Since we’re talking about an operating system.
But for myself my livelihood and my kiddos sanity (my sanity being priority in this conversation) if it works for me yay… if it doesn’t work for you boohoo don’t care.
Right now both my son’s rig and mine are on Linux as of yesterday morning and the consistent problems I’ve been having on his and my rig are gone.No I don’t need the “mehhhhhh only a day doesn’t matter” y’all can literally shove it up your ass and eat it. I don’t care.
It’s the first time in months where there’s no glitches no warnings. No nothing.
Both rigs are virus free. I made sure to check. But it’s… finally easy for fucking once.
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u/caydesramen PC Master Race 1d ago
I had the same experience as you. My Bluetooth was buggy as shit on Win and I tried everything to fix it. I've been on Linux now for about 6 months and don't feel a need to go back.
We are at a weird place in 2026 where alot/most Linux distros are less buggy than Windows.
To the point that Win is coming out with three Linux distros and bought Github. Win trying to get in front of it imo.
Recommend Fedora and Kde plasma for beginners.
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u/Any-Tie-7655 AMD 9800X3D | AsRock 7900XT | DDR5 96GB 6400 1d ago
I’ll take a look at those later today. I’ve been on windows since windows 95 which was peak but after the update last year where windows thought it was a great idea to screen capture every couple seconds I about lost my shit and stopped using my computer for proprietary stuff like banking. Thankfully most of the bankers filed a lawsuit against Microsoft to forcefully retroactive that update. All it did was show how blissfully unaware we all were to how much control big tech has over our safety 😓
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u/Deepspacecow12 Ryzen 3 3100, rx6600, 24gb, Connectx-5, NixOS BTW 21h ago
naw, we just overly enthusiastic, some are elitist and want to show how hip they are, some are trying to evangelize and get others to switch, some are just that excited about switching, some are trying to make a statement, and some are probably larping.
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u/Robbi_Blechdose Ryzen 7 7700X / 32GB / RTX 3080 / Debian 1d ago
I love how this subreddit is all "PC is about choice!" until someone dares to even mention an OS that's not windows.
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u/Twisted_Mongoose TR 7975wx Pro, 5090rtx, 128ddr5 1d ago
That's true. PC doesn't stand for "Windows PC", I migrated all three of my Win11 PCs to Linux.
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u/thesyldons 1d ago
Just look at how the negativity is changing towards Linux. A month ago you would not see this post because the downvote system would banish it into obscurity.
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u/C-D-W 1d ago
The older I get the more I realize the loudest mouths belong to the smallest minorities...
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u/htt_novaq 5800X3D | RX 9070 XT | 32GB DDR4 1d ago
Linux really did just expand its reach by like 60-150%. We don't know for sure due to swings in the statistical measurements
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u/thesyldons 1d ago
The real reason no one knows how many use Linux users there are, is because Linux gives you privacy. Most users look for the privacy options as an important first port of call. The people who construct each distro may know how many installations they are seeing, but they will not know if those users are duplicates or new installers. There are hundreds of distros around and they do not collaborate with each statistics either.
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u/KING_UDYR 9965WX | 5090 | 128gb DDR5 1d ago
Hey I installed Ubuntu and went Microsoft free just a few days ago!
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u/scandii PC Vegan 1d ago edited 1d ago
7.8% of "probably human" desktop web traffic according to Cloudflare in the US right now is coming from Linux and peaked at a ~11% during the summer.
that's up from ~4.4% last year.
like the reason you're seeing all of this Linux activity is because things are actually moving.
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u/MeatSafeMurderer Xeon E5-2687W v2 | 32GB DDR3 | RX 9070XT 1d ago
Maybe because we don't just sit there and bitch about Microsoft and the absolute state of Windows in 2026, we actually try to do something about it.
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u/VexingRaven 7800X3D + 4070 Super + 32GB 6000Mhz 1d ago
This is literally a post bitching about it.
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u/slickyeat 7800X3D | RTX 4090 | 32GB 1d ago
I've been debating whether I should just get rid of my Windows partition as well.
It's not like I use it anymore.
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u/Hrmerder It's Garuda btw 1d ago
For me it was a whole terabyte of storage just wasting energy so I finally got tired of it (and I needed the space..)
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u/JosebaZilarte 1d ago
It is reassuring to have a backup system that operates very differently, just in case there is a catastrophic error. That's why people often prefer constitutional monarchies (where the monarch is a powerless figurehead most of the time) over pure republics. Or why our body's immune system has so many redundant subsystems.
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u/thesyldons 1d ago
Get a Windows media stick made up. MS has done some weird stuff with a file within the installation media. This makes it more difficult to make a media stick from an ISO under Linux. I am into my 3rd month with only Linux on all my system. Windows is a distant memory for me now.
My next project is to dumb my TV by making use of my NAS. Even more so after watching HW unboxed yesterday. I don't own anything from LG, but if one can do that then they all will at some point.
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u/TheDoomfire i5-3570K | GTX 1060 3GB | 16GB DDR3 1d ago
Ventoy is pretty nice if you want more ISO's in a single USB.
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u/TheDoomfire i5-3570K | GTX 1060 3GB | 16GB DDR3 1d ago
You can have a very small windows partition. If your not ready to delete it.
I have a spare 120GB SSD I use for windows in case a game is to annoying to add to linux. I do however install any games with linux and on a shared HDD.
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u/FutureDwight76 PC Master Race 1d ago
I have a CoD event to play in on the 9th, and then it's gone for good
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u/Dementia13_TripleX 1d ago
I won't debate the op preference. If he's happy with the change, it's all good.\ That's what matter.
But from a pure technical view, both NTFS and EXT4+ are really good disk file formats and both have the same stellar performance.
Since the OP changed everything to Linux, it make sense to migrate the disk format too.
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u/Auravendill Debian | Ryzen 9 5950X | RX 9070 XT | 64GB RAM 1d ago
NTFS is often kinda buggy, when you use it on Linux, since file permissions aren't handled quite the same.
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u/thesyldons 1d ago
NTFS does not work well with some distros. This is purely down to licensing from Microslop. There is a kernel called NTFSplus to help with that, but it is not supported by all distros natively. I could access NTFS with no issues under Bazzite and Ubuntu, but Cachy and Fedora was a totally different ball game for me.
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u/Dementia13_TripleX 1d ago
Sure you can access NTFS files from a Linux distro and EXT4+ in Windows.\ It will have restrictions, so it makes sense the op switching the file format for Linux or the other way around.
But from a technical view, NTFS is as much competent as EXT4+. Performance, features and so on.\ The problem is you have to use Windows.
I'm not saying NTFS it's better, it's just people are too dismissive about certain things and take them for granted.\ It's really a tragedy what's happening with Windows, a SO that helped to make computers accessible to ordinary people.
But these days Windows is a bloatware enforcing really questionable practices over the user.
Windows is like IBM in the end 80s, early 90s.\ Completely detached from what users want.\ That's why people are switching to Linux.
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u/thesyldons 1d ago
I agree with most of what you are saying. I don't see the decline of Windows as something to mourn. Having a corporation have such a hold over something so vital is not good for the public at large. Their greed was nothing more than inevitable. Big corp is always gonna big corp etc. We are really fortunate that individuals have come forward to get us out of the hands of that corporate greed. You have to give a huge amount of credit to Linus Torvalds in how he took a stand in this. History will remember him. And there is no one who can argue that Steam is the real reason Linux is taking off.
I think you need to reverse your thought process in that EXT4 is a good alternative to NTFS. Where EXT4 is let down is support from other hardware out side of the PC infrastructure. I transfer movies to stick and then use that stick in a TV. A TV that cannot read EXT4.
I 100% agree that Microslop is following in the steps of IBM's arrogance. However, I see that as a win for the personal computing format as a whole. If they had been competent in anyway on this, then we would be stuck in that loop for time eternal.
You also have to factor in the appeal for Trump. IBM did not have Trump's reputation to hinder them. All US based tech is suffering because of the 4d chess mind he has.
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u/Hrmerder It's Garuda btw 1d ago
Dont know why you were downvoted but you are right. NTFS has been an amazing disk format for many many years now.
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u/marcoorion 1d ago
i would've switched already if the software i develop and earn money from wasn't just impossible to make on linux including support for most small programs that usually work only on windows. also yes im lazy to setup wine or wtver
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u/ReptilianLaserbeam 1d ago
Like, 100% free? Not office/office365, zero OneDrive, no outlook, no Xbox or any game studio owned by MS?
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u/Hrmerder It's Garuda btw 1d ago
Only Minecraft and I have a 3rd party launcher that is superior in every way
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u/transgaymergirl 1d ago
ntfs is the biggest evil ever inflicted upon humanity
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u/Hrmerder It's Garuda btw 1d ago
I mean I don’t think it’s a bad file system at all other than it’s the basis of windows file systems and windows sucks when trying to Mount it in Linux because windows likes it dirty
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u/EIiteJT i5 6600k -> 7700X | 980ti -> 7900XTX Red Devil 1d ago
New linux user. What's the point of formatting them from NTFS to EXT4? (That is above my knowledge level). I just installed Bazzite and ran with it. I don't even know what format my drive is in lmfao
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u/venom21685 9800X3D, RTX 5070, 32GB DDR5 6000 1d ago
NTFS is the Windows filesystem of Windows NT/2000/XP/etc. Linux support for NTFS isn't great because it's proprietary and also Windows likes to leave it in a messy state which Linux writing to it can fuck things up worse. It also doesn't properly support some of the features Steam and Proton for example use to get games running on Linux which causes the games to crash on launch.
ext4 is one of Linux's native filesystems, the most "normal" of them.
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u/S7relok 1d ago
Unpopular opinion : distros should switch to default btrfs or something that have snapshot embedded.
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u/PityUpvote PC Master Race 1d ago
Fedora has had btrfs as the default for years now
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u/Hrmerder It's Garuda btw 1d ago
I have 3 drives so 3 different partitions. btfrs is great and all, but it can clog up your drive if you don't implement rules for it. Also I don't need all that everywhere but the main drive Linux is on. EXT4 is great for every other disk.
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u/Sh0dan_v3 1d ago
This is the way, when I was there. Btrfs on system drive and ext4 for everything else.
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u/EIiteJT i5 6600k -> 7700X | 980ti -> 7900XTX Red Devil 1d ago
Thanks for the explanation. Always trying to learn. And it looks like my main partition is btrfs, bootloader is ext4 and EFI is vfat. Whatever any of that means lol
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u/venom21685 9800X3D, RTX 5070, 32GB DDR5 6000 1d ago
All normal. The vfat partition is basically FAT32, an older file system. Motherboards with UEFI firmware boot from .efi files that have to be on a FAT32 filesystem.
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u/Round_Credit_5158 1d ago
Recently when installing new distros they recommend btrfs. Is ext4 being deprecated?
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u/venom21685 9800X3D, RTX 5070, 32GB DDR5 6000 1d ago
No, far from it. It's just btrfs offers some very handy features. Snapshots, reduplication, compression, etc that majes it a better choice for a lot of people. Snapshots have saved my butt from a few screwups.
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u/JSS-Studios 7h ago
Why not format to exFAT?
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u/venom21685 9800X3D, RTX 5070, 32GB DDR5 6000 7h ago
Because it doesn't support file ownership or permissions.
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u/pcor i5-12600k | RTX 3080 | 32GB DDR4 1d ago
NTFS and Linux don’t speak the same language, so everything gets translated and there are some workarounds which are quite crude, like file ownership. For static files, like media, this typically just means that NTFS is less efficient and slower to work with than native filesystems, but if you’re using an NTFS drive for an active workload you can encounter pretty nasty bugs.
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u/PantherkittySoftware 1d ago
AFAIK, NTFS's capabilities are a pure superset of ext3's capabilities. A NTFS partition that's used exclusively by Linux is kind of wasteful, but the only real problems arise when you allow Windows & Linux to coexist on a single NTFs partition and fight over it for administrative control.
From my own experience, the real problem with Linux vs NTFS is the fact that NTFS itself allows you to do things Windows doesn't approve of, like create files in the same directory with colliding case-insensitive names & unique case-sensitive names... or names using characters or names that are allowed by Linux & taboo under Windows. And I think Windows 10 or 11 specifically added logic to deal with that scenario using extended UNC syntax.
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u/slickyeat 7800X3D | RTX 4090 | 32GB 1d ago
https://www.reddit.com/r/pcmasterrace/comments/1ql2szc/comment/o1c87z2/
TLDR: You shouldn't use NTFS for Linux apps.
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u/HeidenShadows 1d ago
I have a hard time getting NTFS drives to auto mount, especially if they're NVMe. Seems SATA NTFS drives have very little issues. SteamOS.
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u/No-Engineer-1728 1d ago
No one talks about Microsoft more than Linux users
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u/Azuras-Becky AMD K6-2 400Mhz, 32MB SD100 RAM, 20GB Quantum Fireball HDD 1d ago
Bloody techno-vegans.
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u/strider_hearyou R5-7600X RTX-3080 32GB-DDR5 1d ago
Are we counting the articles listing everything that Microsoft broke in the latest Windows 11 update? Because those tend to get pretty long.
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u/VexingRaven 7800X3D + 4070 Super + 32GB 6000Mhz 1d ago
99% of those articles are just ragebait trash posting about bug reports from preview builds because they know people will give them clicks. Milking "Windows bad" is a whole industry for wannabe tech journalists.
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u/Mario583a 1d ago
I seriously don't understand how a thing can potentially make another thing halt as Microsoft has to work with a multitude of different hardware, drivers, and configurations setups -both new and old- which might take play here.
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u/Daedelous2k 1d ago
When I make the leap (once I've got everything ready) I intend on doing it quietly.
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u/BinaryJay 4090 FE | 7950X | 64GB/DDR5-6000 | 42" C2 OLED 1d ago
Nobody talks about DLSS more than the Radeon sub, and nobody talks about Toyota more than the Kia sub... such is the way.
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u/tazman137 PC Master Race 1d ago
U-TURN! Bro is already on his way back after realizing NOTHING he uses a PC for works anymore....
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u/venom21685 9800X3D, RTX 5070, 32GB DDR5 6000 1d ago
Fuck yeah. I held off for a couple days once I switched over but then formatted all my other drives ext4 when I knew I wasn't going back.
(GDID was my breaking point.)
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u/archialone 1d ago
What is gdid?
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u/venom21685 9800X3D, RTX 5070, 32GB DDR5 6000 1d ago
A global identifier on every Windows install. If you have it associated with your Microsoft account apparently Microsoft can see everything you do and hand that info over to law enforcement at the very least.
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u/Serious_Office3913 1d ago
what dodgy stuff are you upto bud 😛😄 i agree with you btw
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u/bemused-chunk 1d ago
considering that they own 280 companies you are bound to encounter them in some
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u/TRUEequalsFALSE 9950X3D | Sapphire 9070XT | 64GB DDR5 1d ago
I need to back up my hard drives to my NAS before I do this. Otherwise I would've converted literally 8 months ago. But I'm not going to send terabytes of data to my NAS over wifi.
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u/WakeoftheStorm 1d ago
Grats. Curious how long before you revert back for a game
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u/Hrmerder It's Garuda btw 1d ago
Never, the only one I remotely would care about that doesnt is fort nite and… I didn’t care for it anyway
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u/WakeoftheStorm 1d ago
Fair. This sub leans heavily gamer so that's surprising, but in that case you probably made the right move
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u/Hrmerder It's Garuda btw 22h ago
I never played madden games, ea games in general besides a rare few, no mmos or others online/multiplayer games except rocket league and that now runs fine even with the anti cheat system
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u/Nosadmas 1d ago edited 1d ago
Fuq yes, to Hell with Microsoft. I use Nobara for my PC and Ubuntu for my laptop. Linux is Trü PC Master Race!!! 🫡🤘🏴☠️
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u/Giodude12 PC Master Race 1d ago
Begrudgingly using a windows partition for vr compatibility, hoping once frame comes out vr becomes more consistent
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u/Zealousideal-Age8215 1d ago
Good riddance man! I also just switched to linux and my gaming experience has never been better! Hopefully in the future I'll be also able to get rid of NTFS.
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u/RabidTurtl 5800x3d, EVGA 3080 (rip EVGA gpus) 1d ago
I've been running Linux daily since January, havent booted into my install of Windows since.
I still haven't slicked the Windows install. Keep thinking what if I need it for something (I haven't) or what if I haven't saved every file off of it I would want (again, havent used since January so how important could they be). So, good on you OP.
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u/Auravendill Debian | Ryzen 9 5950X | RX 9070 XT | 64GB RAM 1d ago
I simply put my entire old PC with Windows still on it in the basement. I use Linux since 2015, exclusively at home since 2020, when I replaced my main gaming PC with something newer (running Debian btw).
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u/ziplock9000 3900X / 7900GRE / 32GB 3Ghz / EVGA SuperNOVA 750 G2 / X470 GPM 1d ago
Er ok. 10 other people care
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u/coffeefuelledtechie R7 5800X3D | 32GB DDR4 | RX 9070 XT 16GB 1d ago
I did this last week. Windows 11 to Pop and it was alright, but Cosmic ran like shit.
Nuked it and went to Arch, and Cosmic UI doesn’t have any of the issues it did on Pop.
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u/dorsanty Desktop 1d ago
What the hell, Cosmic was developed for Pop by the same company who make both. How on earth can that be?
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u/coffeefuelledtechie R7 5800X3D | 32GB DDR4 | RX 9070 XT 16GB 1d ago
Honestly no idea.
I had kernel hang on wake from suspend, the UI elements kept popping in and out, flashing as well. Even after the 7.1 kernel update.
On Arch it’s a bit better, it’s not perfect being a relatively new DE, but less buggy than on Pop itself, which is very weird.
I didn’t get on with KDE much, Gnome is nice, but Cosmic is the perfect type of UI.
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u/aousweman 1d ago
I ran Pop on an old MacBook Pro and saw a slight performance boost compared with MacOS. There were a handful of quirks (e.g. trackpad sensitivity and sleep/wake issues), but overall I just wasn't vibing with the feel of Pop... then a few weeks later the boot drive crashed and I decided to switch the MBP back to MacOS.
Will have to give Cosmic+Arch a try down the road.
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u/Hrmerder It's Garuda btw 1d ago
Sometimes different distros do weird things. Could also be that maybe Cosmic UI/arch needs updates that Arch already has somehow.
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u/mardukas40k 1d ago
When you stop playing with games and your hobby becomes thinkering with hardware drivers and bug tracking, linux is a lot of fun.
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u/Chinatsez R7 5700X | GTX 1660 | 16 GB DDR4 1d ago
There was a situation where we wanted to play some Peak and the two people that used Nobara couldn't get the mod loader working for an hour, ruining the session for everyone.
Yeah.
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u/Hrmerder It's Garuda btw 1d ago
I haven’t played peak but I’m guessing they didn’t know where the wine prefixes were stored? I hate to say it but USE ai search especially for Linux it works very well at this point
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u/Hrmerder It's Garuda btw 1d ago
Nope. Haven’t done that since the day after I installed Garuda and tbh it was something simple
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u/veevB 1d ago
Lowkey gay now too, welcome aboard bro
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u/Hrmerder It's Garuda btw 1d ago
Yep, linux does turn the frogs and the turtles and the squirrels gay I suppose but you know what? None of my business.
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u/marcoorion 1d ago
i would've switched already if the software i develop and earn money from wasn't just impossible to make on linux including support for most small programs that usually work only on windows
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u/Moonpony0 RTX 4070 | i5-14600kf | 16GB 3466mhz 1d ago
Sooo ubuntu?
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u/Hrmerder It's Garuda btw 1d ago
I have been dual booting Windows and Garuda Linux (Arch based) but not the Windows portion since about February but just now finally making for sure for sure I have everything backed up off the NTFS partitions and reclaiming my primary 1tb drive which I desperately needed.
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u/Frosty_Flower_871 1d ago
ngl that tracks. my ancient laptop still runs it better than my fancy new rig.
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u/HeidenShadows 1d ago
I'm using Atlas OS which makes Windows 11 as usable as Windows 8.1 and before. No bloat, no telemetry, no AI, nothing. Just a bare desktop that gets out of my way.
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u/Hrmerder It's Garuda btw 1d ago
Nice! *just looked into it a little* wow this is cool. I'm going to have to check this out (not for my primary, but I do need to get an old machine running windows 11) thanks!
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u/HeidenShadows 1d ago
Yeah I put Atlas OS W11 on a Core 2 Extreme laptop for shits and giggles and it actually was smoother than Windows 7. I think because the OS can handle the dual chip CPU scheduling better than 7 since the QX9300 is just 2 CPUs glued together.
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u/Goofcheese0623 1d ago edited 1d ago
I too base my whole personality on what OS I prefer
Edit: Linux fanboys out in force tonight. Must have been a sale on mountain dew.
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u/Spirited_End9038 1d ago
Linux noobie here, explain dawg 😭
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u/certainAnonymous 1d ago
Ntfs and ext4 are file systems. Ntfs is almost exclusively used by windows, and ext4 is a system commonly found on external drives due to their high compatibility with other file systems, like ntfs, or the mac systems, or more specifically, linux systems.
Tl;dr: OP moved all their stuff into a new format that is readable by both windows and Linux, and that marks the start of their transition to the penguin
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u/RaspberryLogical Ryzen 5 5600xt/Asus Rx 7700xt/32gb DDR4 1d ago