Digichelle6d ago

Windows 11 on my gaming PC began to act up in ways beyond repair. Out of frustration, I thought, “Fuck it. Forget clean installing Windows. Instead, let me flip the bird at Microsoft by installing Linux instead.”

Fast-forward to now, after attempting to install Bazzite and CachyOS, but failing. The Bazzite installers (both their new and legacy ones) wouldn’t even boot, no matter what switches I flipped in my BIOS settings. The CachyOS installer launched and ran, at least, but the resulting system hung at a black screen on boot. So I’m conceding defeat for now and prepping a new Windows USB installer.

I wish this wasn’t the case. I wish I could tell you all that I’m happily gaming on Linux. Alas, I simply don’t have the patience to keep banging my head against a solid lead wall.

Maybe I’ll try again sometime in the future. For now, I just wanna play! 😭

Show threadGraham Downs

@digichelle You'll almost certainly find help here. Along with myriad opinions on which distros are best for gaming and why the ones you tried are the wrong ones. And, "open a terminal and enter this 20 different commands, paste the results of this log file, then enter these five different commands, then reboot, then open another terminal and try this, then download this driver and make it from source (oh, you don't have the C++ build tools? Well, duh! Who doesn't have the C++ build tools?).

And you'll eventually get it working, but good luck remembering HOW you got it right, because you'll have to reinstall one day and you'll have to repeat this whole process.

When Linux works, it works, and it's amazing (I run Mint on my personal desktop, and so far it's played every game I've thrown at it). When it doesn't, oi, what a mission.

Mar 17 at 6:34amWeb