Switching to Ubuntu

I didn't
NickLeStrange said:
Just as an aside, and based upon your username... Steam now has Playonlinux. It is still in beta, but I have seen some YouTubers have good gameplay results with it. It seems to be running non-Indie dx9 titles really well, so your old games might work well on it.

As a new Linux user, stay away from any KDE desktop, if you like using your keyboard for driving your PC, then try Ubuntu with Gnome, Unity is no longer the default Desktop on Ubuntu, I noticed someone here mention it. Gnome is a bit heavy on RAM, but it makes excellent use of what it uses. Ubuntu 18.04 is super stable. Mint is based on Ubuntu, with a more Windows-like Desktop environment, but I never enjoyed Mint.

Patience is key when switching to a different environment.
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I found this feature yesterday, i'm amazed at how well it works. I tried Grim Dawn, Hellblade, The Surge, The Witcher so far and they all just booted up right away with no usual wine issues. Only issue i got was with The Surge where the character models is not being drawn
 
ODTech said:
I didn't


I found this feature yesterday, i'm amazed at how well it works. I tried Grim Dawn, Hellblade, The Surge, The Witcher so far and they all just booted up right away with no usual wine issues. Only issue i got was with The Surge where the character models is not being drawn
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With the character models, you have to force it to use dx9, there was one YouTuber who had the same issue with RWBY, it drew weapons etc, just not the models.

You can check from here: (he does the configuration et al.)

 
Feedback from my upgrade:

Made Backup of my Home Folder

installed 4GB RAM and SSD

Installed fresh new Ubuntu 18.04.1

Had an issue with my WiFi adapter not being found, googled it, fixed.

Restored my Backup to original folders
 
now, when i wanted to do a backup, and, i want to choose what to backup, I see 2 Home Folders - which do I choose?

TIA
 
I don't get this message anymore, however, now it fails to make a backupScreenshot from 2018-09-22 07-33-45.png
 
Hmmm. I'm not familiar with Ubuntu's particular backup solution, I usually use other methods.

It looks like a permissions thing. If you browse to your removable drive can you view, edit and delete files as normal?
 
My first backup was to an external 1TB drive, which i used to restore my data.

i placed my old HDD in an enclosure, so now, its also an external drive.

i could access the old drive but, now, when trying to backup to it, its denied
 
Can you backup to the working 1TB external?

Did you format your old HDD after you put it in the enclosure? If not, all the old stuff will still be there and will be owned by "root" which means your non-admin user won't be able to write to anywhere on the drive.
 
You'll have to check with which permissions that old drive is mounted. I'll bet money it's owned by root.
 
SauRoNZA said:
So @gamer16 how are things going?
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Quey_Quick said:
Yeah, you a happy Ubuntu user yet?

/Typing this on Ubuntu :)
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Things didn't go too well, if you recall I installed Mint quickly and then promptly decided to leave it alone until I had internet access so I could install GPU drivers etc etc.

I installed the driver package from Nvidia's website, rebooted but didn't have the correct resolution's available in settings or Nvidia's control panel, I could not seem to find a fix for this without using other sources for the drivers, lots more research and time spent in the terminal but the issue remained, eventually I found a way to add custom resolutions which worked perfectly until I rebooted, after which the method no longer worked and I couldn't change the driver source in the control panel either

. Before I rebooted however I installed Wine and playonlinux. There were dependency and depository issues to do with the graphics drivers, at least 30 min till I could solve that. Wine worked perfectly right out of the box, I could run all the windows apps I usually do. I did not have a chance to test playonlinux.

After the reboot I spent another couple of hours trying to figure out how to fix the resolution issue, max option was 1366x768 witch is just painful if you are used to 1920x1440. Eventually I just gave up left it as is.

I have already installed and setup Win 10 again since then but I'm still interested in Linux so I'll try again with another distro maybe, I'll see about doing so this evening.
 
I really thought graphics driver issues were a thing of the past.

Apparently not.
 
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