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Hello, this is the Linux comment
I'd switch if every discussion about Linux didn't devolve into lengthy discussions about the complicated ways you need get anything working on it.
Like.. what exactly lol?
Most discussions about Linux here devolve into distro sledging lol.
Even the joke stuff like Nvidia is from a bygone era.
My personal recommendation is Fedora, but any competent distro is miles more user friendly than current windows 11.
Distros from that joke stuff era are more user friendly than Windows 11.
e: ^^^ don't downvote them -_-;;
Fair.
There are about 30 different ways to do any single thing and whatever way you choose is guaranteed to provoke 17 neckbeards into writing essays on why you're wrong and, while they're at it, you also picked the wrong distro.
On the other hand:
I'm old, and can't be fucked learning a whole new system. I just want to browse the internet and play my games. The biggest barrier is getting my simracing gear and modded Assetto Corsa working on it.
Yeah, I completely understand. I bounced off Linux desktop several times and I'm a sysadmin.
It's only the last few years where there have been rapid and significant improvements to get gaming so it "just works*" and both of the popular desktop environments, KDE (Windows-like) and gnome (Mac-like) have had a heavy focus on fixing all of the little fiddly annoyances that turned people off.
It's not perfect and it can be annoying, but its dramatically better than it was 5 years ago while Windows keeps moving in the opposite direction.
I'm not trying to sell you on it really, Linus doesn't pay me commissions. Windows isn't THAT bad and learning a new OS is a big ask.
I've just been impressed by the state of things and enjoy yapping about it.
Obligatory "Gnome is NOT Mac-like" comment.
The Windows people think Gnome is Mac-like. Hah, no it's not! Gnome is its own weird thing.
KDE can actually get a lot closer to Mac than Gnome can, if you add a top menu bar, rearrange some stuff, and move the titlebar buttons around.
(We came from Mac land originally, and that's how we have our KDE set up. Mostly.)
-- Frost
My favorite one is
"Oh linux is easy these days, you don't have to even open the terminal"
"Haha noob why did you install the flatpak version, never do that, always install everything as .debs through terminal"
You can just click on debs in your file manager, no different from an exe in that aspect.. but sure, i guess you could run an exe via cmd if you really wanted to
That depends on the distro, just choose one that's beginner-friendly or "works out of the box"
LMDE, Zorin, etc.
OK, so tell me how to get Assetto Corsa Content Manager, Custom Shaders Patch and all the other mods I have installed, Quest 2 VR and Moza Pit House working in Linux, because that's the thing keeping me from switching. Would WINE work well enough for that?
Ok, my coffee fueled morning research:
Essentially, if you can install the game with Steam it works out of the box. According to Protondb (https://www.protondb.com/app/244210) the game has a Gold rating which means it works without any major flaws.
There's a guide to get Assetto Corsa setup: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2828364666
If you don't want to fuss with all of this manually, someone has created a script to do most of the work here: https://github.com/sihawido/assettocorsa-linux-setup
As far as mods, I'd need to know which other mods you use to see if there are any specific instructions/issues.
List of force feedback steering wheels, the driver needed to use them and a rating of how well they work with Linux. It looks like all Moza products have a Platinum rating so they work flawlessly. https://github.com/JacKeTUs/linux-steering-wheels
Moza Pit House doesn't work, but someone has created a flatpak native Linux version: https://flathub.org/en/apps/io.github.lawstorant.boxflat
Here's a compilation of links for software to get various pieces of simracing gear working: https://github.com/LukasLichten/awesome-linux-simracing
Steam VR via Quest 2 using ALVR: https://pawamoy.github.io/posts/steam-linux-alvr-quest2/
Legend! I'm saving this post for when I do finally get the motivation to switch.
The main mods I'm concerned about are Custom Shaders Patch and Pure, but I believe the devs are working on Linux versions of those as well.
If you do and run into any trouble, feel free to DM me. :)
Thanks. I will say, though, that still seems pretty lengthy and complicated to get working. ;) But I guess I only have to do it once.
Most of the other mods are simply cars and tracks, which I guess are just drag and drop like in Windows. The only other one that might be an issue is the 2Real traffic/pedestrian mods.
Yeah it is. Though, if you're doing sim racing and also modding a game it isn't an inherently a plug and play situation even in Windows. :P
Most of the games I play are just 'buy, click install on Steam, press play'.
It looks like you can run the install.bat file in the wine prefix via protontricks and then copy the csp traffic tool, car pack and traffic/pedestrian.json files in the appropriate folders.
You may have to click the 'Try to Fix' button in the taskbar in Practice mode to auto-install the traffic mods, but this seems like something that you have to do on Windows too.
True, but I'm at least familiar with it.
All my games are installed on a non-OS drive. Will I have to re-download them, or will Steam automatically detect them once I point it to the directory?
The SteamLibrary folder will move over, no problem.
The drive being formatted as NTFS is the issue. Valve doesn't recommend this with Proton/WINE for reasons. NTFS isn't case sensitive, for example.
If you have the space to temporarily move your SteamLibrary elsewhere you can just format the drive to ext4 and move the folder back. (If not we are in one of those '30 different possible ways to solve the problem' situations that was mentioned at the top of the comment chain :P)
I don't, and I'm out.
No worries, good talkin' to ya. :)