Hey all, I’m a longtime Ubuntu user for work and recently switched my desktop to arch from windows after seeing how well games run on my steam deck! I’ve wanted to move to Linux fully for years but gaming on it used to be pretty hit or miss.
So far arch has definitely been more involved to get going - but I managed to get a desktop environment that runs great with my gpu and steam. I love how minimal it is out of the box and I’m getting a lot of ideas of stuff to build with it.
Anyway I’m mostly just posting to introduce myself to the community on here and to say how much I’m liking arch so far.
But, if you have any tips/suggestions of things I may have missed to take full advantage of my system when gaming, I’d appreciate hearing it! Also, if you’re running a setup like this, any favourite packages you have?
inching towards making the same jump.
Currently the things holding me back are music production stuff (mainly vst/vst3 plugins and their draconian drm). If anyone has any first hand experiences with eg. iLok and the plugins working under wine, it would be grand <3
Games wise... does raytracing in games work under linux? eg. Cyberpunk 2077, gog -version.
there are folks that do audio stuff on linux and from what i can tell it is a lot of work and your workflows will change a bit.
Check out Unfa on youtube, my man does everything using linux apps.
Trying to do live audio stuff in wine may be a struggle, from what I gather most audio production folks switch to a realtime kernel build which may chip away performance on the very top end but prevents lost samples because of competing resources. With that in mind I don't know how windows apps would perform for live audio. BUT if you're just processing already captured stuff then you might be fine.
All that to say take a peek and see if ardour can support the plugins you want or has an alternative that can meet the same goals. It probably won't be as easy but I bet you'll find something that works.
No experience with audio stuff but I feel you in terms of photo editing. Lightroom is gonna be sad to lose but darktable seems pretty good and if I’m being honest I mostly edit on my iPad anyway.
For games if nobody answers your question I’ll test it out when I get home from work
I switched to Darktable years ago and haven’t missed Lightroom at all. It takes some getting used to but it’s very good.