Had a slow day yesterday so thought, why not wipe the gaming PC and put Linux on it.
I work with Linux every day for work so I wanted a debian-based distro as that’s what I’m most familiar with. After a short impulsive-driven search, I picked pika-os. Never heard of it but thought I’d give it a go.
Picked KDE, installed the OS, booted first time and immediately regretted it. No network. I have a 2.5G Realtek 8125 nic and whilst it was detected, it was showing RX packets as “dropped”. Couldn’t install firmware-realtek as it conflicted with linux-firmware. Tried the Realtek website, what a mess that is, compiled a driver, couldn’t get it to load. Ended up finding a git repo that created .deb packages for all realtek drivers.
Got network up and running and its all been great from there. Last time I tried this in 2021 I had loads of issues but so far, other than having to download a later version of Proton and select it in a game, or add some command-line arguments in Steam, its been great!
I’m so surprised that every app I normally use on Windows is either available as a Linux native app, works with emulation (bottles) or there is a decent alternative.
Definitely, 100%, the Linux desktop is ready.
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Had a Realtek network card in my gaming pc. Had nothing but problems with it under windows AND Linux. Finally ripped it out a month ago and replaced it with an intel. It’s so nice to have finally a stable connection.
Oh wow I never heard of PikaOS but of seems great, even though you had some difficulties. I love Debian and have it on my Server, Laptop and now also on my older Gaming (Nvidia) PC.
I feel like Debian really only needs a couple of (hardware specific) tweaks to be a great out of the box experience and it seems PikaOS tries to do that. I don’t like that most other desktop first distros opt into using Ubuntu as their bases. But that is only because I’m willing to invest some time to fix stuff and understand how my PC works.
Yeah I’m enjoying pikaos. I use chrony for time-sync and their “pika-base” package absolutely required systemd-timesync and I wanted to remove it. I asked in their discord and they changed the package for me right there and then so that it was “systemd-timesyncd” OR “chrony”. I did “apt update” 10 minutes later and it was resolved.
Man, you had it harder than me with the realtek drivers. PikaOS is pretty cool overall, as it does streamline some things that Debian makes annoying (graphics drivers, for example). I do hope you enjoy PikaOS, after troubleshooting that annoying issue! The good thing about anything Debian based is that .debs are probably the most prevalent installer out there (cries in Arch).
it does streamline some things that Debian makes annoying (graphics drivers, for example).
Do you by any chance mean Nvidia drivers?
Yeah, but ultimately, it was even easier with Garuda Linux which was built to be used. As my drivers were correctly selected when the installation began. It was a good surprise.
There is a command line workflow for installing NVIDIA drivers, but, the provided drivers (which Trixie was built against) were pretty moldy at that point. For just a simple productivity machine, Debian would’ve been my go to.
For one that is a gaming/entertainment/productivity machine…It wasn’t for me, personally. As Debian is pretty stable and mostly easy to use.
Really enjoying it so far. Been playing D4 and The Alters today. I’m still surprised at how smooth the experience is!
Glad you’ve had a good time post install, I’ve experienced a similar thing on Garuda Linux…It’s pretty smooth with the latest graphics drivers!
Weird fucking flex
Sorry, where is the flex?
In a time where Nazis have made a comeback and racism is rampant world wide, maybe it’s time we dropped the whole “master race” joke
Nah, let’s keep associating that concept with a joke, because that’s just what it is
You do know that the PC Master Race was originally intended to make fun of the pseudoscientific Nazi ideology “master race”?
It feels like we need this joke more than ever before.
It’s originally for lame PC gamers to feel superior. It’s always sucked
That is taking what is said so far out of context that I’m more concerned for your comment than the title.
I think they have a point.
