|OT| The Linux Gaming Thread - Thread of the Millenium

[Parsnip]

I've been on KDE full time since 2008, never used Budgie, so can't compare the two.

KDE is quite configurable, so you can make it very Windows-like if that's the goal.


While there was a time when XFCE was more lightweight than KDE, I'm not sure that's the case anymore; certainly not for RAM usage, at least.

Unless you're talking about an extremely old computer (10+ years), I don't think performance is going to be a differentiating factor in favour of XFCE.

My distro (EndeavourOS) used XFCE for the live USB for a long time, but recently switched to KDE. There was a looong debate about that, and the conclusion was, if I recall, that KDE was much easier for them to work with, and that the putative performance / old hardware support delta was not conclusive enough to justify staying with XFCE.

Choose a desktop you like, and start worrying about performance-based alternatives only if you actually run into a performance wall you can't tweak away by disabling a few effects.

I mean it's not my PC so I won't choose a desktop I like.

I actually don't remember how old the PC is. If it wasn't old, I'd probably just install Win11 and not worry about any of this. But it's old enough to not have the TPM requirements, and while I know it's possible to get around that, it's too much of a hassle for me because I'm the IT support, basically. The system is only really used for browsing the web, occasional libre office and playing solitaire. And occasionally when my brother is in town he stays the nights there and plays Kingdom Two Crowns on it.

 

[BardsTales]

At some point soon I need to install Linux on my moms PC due to the whole Win10 support ending and all that, and of course I'm aiming to make the transition as seamless as possible.
I haven't 100% decided on distro just yet, but I'm leaning heavily on some Fedora atomic spin right now.

Same situation, I'm my mom's IT support and I live a bit far away so I can't just go over there every week to update something. Plus I want to start using Linux more myself because Microsoft got so much worse, there's also a boycott because MS is very involved with the genocide in Palestine...

I installed Linux Mint on a laptop and it worked really well immediately, very nice. I've had previous linux experience with a lot of distros but every year it gets better. The laptop immediately booted and the wifi worked, which I've struggled with in the past and I'm too old/lazy now to spend time compiling/linking wifi drivers by hand. I hope to install this on a pretty fast (well) desktop too for some gaming. I used to run Fedora and then Ubuntu but Fedora became very slow on my machine and Ubuntu had that terrible window manager then (Unity) and Mint was a very nice change. Mint Cinnamon feels a bit XP / Win7 like so hoping my mom will be able to get used to that.

The main advantage is that she's already been using Firefox and Thunderbird for web / email so that will be the exact same software. Just hoping that that specific laptop will be supported and nothing weird happens.

Also since I live far away I'd like some "take over de desktop remotely" software but not sure what to use yet. There's RustDesk but not sure that works well? For gaming I'm going to try Lutris, see what happens. Lutris - Open Gaming Platform