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Written by Arto Koistinen on 2025-01-20 at 11:47

I've been using #linux for almost a month now, and I have been really happy with it. I managed to botch the boot manager so I'm not even able to boot back into Windows, but so far haven't had any need to, as I can access the NTFS drive anyway.

I have #arch_linux and it's been treating me well, but I'm not sure if I want to switch the window manager from #gnome to something else. It works but there's some bugs and small annoyance, and it's still better than Windows.

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Written by Arto Koistinen on 2025-01-20 at 11:50

Some #gamedev related thoughts:

• #unity seems to run faster than on Win, at least opening the projects is noticeably quicker

• #linux is great for dev, installing dev packages and managing libraries is a lot easier than on Windows.

• I'm still looking for a good #git client tho, I tried gitg because simple and free, but it's pretty clunky and slow

• #Steam has worked well enough and a considerable portion of my library has linux support - trend I expect to continue growing

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Written by Vile Lasagna on 2025-01-20 at 11:54

@arzi My favourite git client has been git-cola. It's not super good looking or anything, but it's real easy to find everything you need and navigate. Pair it up with Meld for merging and you're bound to have a good time =3

As for games: yeah, very very little gives any trouble with how well Proton and Wine in general have advanced this past few years. Haven't booted Windows for personal use in years and it hasn't slowed down my gaming even a little bit

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Written by Arto Koistinen on 2025-01-20 at 12:44

@VileLasagna tried git-cola but can't even make it pull files because it says it can't find tclsh (which I did install)

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Written by Vile Lasagna on 2025-01-20 at 12:44

@arzi Huh? Yeah, never ran into that one. That's a real bummer =(

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Written by Vile Lasagna on 2025-01-20 at 11:51

@arzi If you're in Arch, it's easy to play around with different DEs and see how you feel about them. I myself was never a fan of Gnome and have been using basically exclusively Plasma for quite a quite. But I've had good experiences with Cinnamon, XFCE and I keep eagerly waiting for the day when Enlightenment will cease to be "almost there" =P

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Written by Arto Koistinen on 2025-01-20 at 11:55

@VileLasagna I assume if I switch DEs all the apps will still be accessible? They're obviously not tied to the DE but I'm not sure if I need to add them to a settings file somewhere? (most of them are installed with pacman)

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Written by Vile Lasagna on 2025-01-20 at 11:56

@arzi Normally all the DE "Start Menus" do a good job of staying mostly in sync

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Written by Raptor :gamedev: on 2025-01-20 at 14:46

@arzi @VileLasagna DE's are just apps that run first (well, after something like slim/gdm that manages the login) to manage your session, you can install as many as you want and swap between them at login, it won't have any impact on anything else installed.

Menus/etc are governed by the XDG directory spec, there's desktop files that system-wide apps install in /usr/share/applications and user specific ones in ~/.local/share/applications that populate all your menu's/etc.

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Written by Vile Lasagna on 2025-01-20 at 15:03

@raptor85 @arzi See, that all makes sense and I've always thought that way too... then one day I ran into an Ubuntu install and... oh my god

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