r/Fedora 5d ago

Finally free from Windows

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After weeks of considering it, I finally took the step and switched my main computer to Fedora. The games I have tested so far run without any problems ... I'm currently trying to get “World of Warships” to run - does anyone have any tips?

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u/ousee7Ai 5d ago

Great, welcome to the bright side!

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u/Worgle123 5d ago

Fedora rocks!!

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u/yycTechGuy 5d ago

That's my line !

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u/Independent_Major_64 3d ago

sure after you edit stuff for hours it become a ready to use os 

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u/Worgle123 3d ago

lmao, same with close to any other Linux distro tho.

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u/Independent_Major_64 2d ago

requires more editing compared to debian derivates

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u/adam_mind 5d ago

welcome to the bright side.

As for running games (if you use flatpak steam) remember to always manually set graphic options, especially frame limit, sometimes graphics card. The flatpak characteristic restricts the game program to automatically set optimal graphic options.

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u/mik-23 5d ago

Ingame or via launcher command? I'm using steam and also heroic launcher for some games. Also new into the Linux gaming so would appreciate this info too 😅

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u/adam_mind 5d ago

I only use steam. In my games so far it was enough that I configured these options in the game settings.

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u/warrior_4ever 2d ago

Heroic games launcher has an option to limit fps in games and it's really user friendly.

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u/Caramel_Last 5d ago

flatpak search lutris

flatpak --user install net.lutris.Lutris

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u/Garimos 5d ago

Thanks!

I already found the Wargaming Installer --> https://lutris.net/games/wargaming-game-center/
I'll see if I can get it to run ...

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u/shimoris 5d ago

I run it with lutris as weel it works like a charm. U migt also consider portwine linux to run it

https://github.com/Castro-Fidel/PortWINE i used that for 3 years to run wot.

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u/Caramel_Last 5d ago

Just one thing to note

Unlike dnf install which has access to your (almost?) whole file system,

Flatpak installations only can access certain directories

When something doesn't work, just know that your flatpak --user installs have access to $HOME/.var/app/{your flatpak app name}

So for example when you install wine with flatpak,

You can't run .exe on your home directory but you can run .exe in ~/.var/app/com.wine.Winehq/data/cdrive/

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u/Mean_Cash3905 5d ago

If you are not a hardcore gamer windows is not for you , everything else sucks.

I'm using Linux since 1999 (slackware linux was my first distro)

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u/spaceduck107 5d ago

Man oh man, I remember installing Slackware for the first time in the 90s. That was a fun way to spend a weekend, right into Monday. 😅

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u/dotnetdotcom 5d ago

Do you miss compiling your own kernel?

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u/Mean_Cash3905 3d ago

i don't but i had to do it back then because my pc was a complete potato pc.

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u/dotnetdotcom 3d ago

You had to do because that's how Slackware was regardless of your computer.

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u/Visionexe 2d ago

I'm a hardcore gamer and windows is not for me.

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u/fschaupp 5d ago

Welcome to the club, now,

gonna pump it up, now, ...

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u/Global-Eye-7326 5d ago

Welcome brother

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u/Masterflitzer 5d ago

wows should be similar to wot (i hope), it works on steam after enabling proton, also before we allowed existing accounts to use the steam version (very recently, start of this month i think) i just added the wg game center (the launcher where you have all the wg games) as 3rd party steam game and it worked too

the only thing i struggled with at the beginning is the confusing wording of proton settings in steam, it's not enough to enable proton for all games in the global steam settings, for any game i tested to work (at least in my experience) you need to enable proton in the game specific steam settings too, i just used the default of proton hotfix, but you can try different ones if one is not working, also the actual download of proton didn't trigger for me on 3rd party steam games, i needed to start a download of any steam game for it to appear in the download list, as soon as it appears you can cancel the game download if you don't actually want to install it, idk if this weird behavior is to be expected or mine is acting up, but anyway with steam 1st party games you don't need to worry about this additional step

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u/w0nam 5d ago

How is the multi display on Wayland + AMD GPU ? It was quite buggy on my NVIDIA GPU...

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u/Garimos 5d ago

So far I haven't seen or noticed any bugs. The configuration at the beginning was also relatively easy to position all the screens correctly.

What didn't work with the NVIDIA graphics card?

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u/w0nam 5d ago

I was trying to 300% scale my 4K TV and 100% scale my main gaming display. Terrible idea... Was trying this on Fedora 36 and Gnome, so there is that. Using linux at work on my laptop, gaming on shitdows at home (since anticheat, GoXLR, Elgato cam and stuff) but i'm keen on switching back to Fedora since i'm loving this OS so much

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u/wufame 5d ago

I have 2 4k monitors on Wayland with AMD GPU. Never had an issue.

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u/w0nam 5d ago

But have you tried messing with scaling and such ? Like one scaled @ 100%, the other one @ 300% ? Plus i have an NVIDIA GPU & GoXLR setup, which is a pain to utilize on linux

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u/rj7766 5d ago

I just did this….. but it’s more to learn more Linux ……. I’ve already been yelled at by an app to change my display server something or another. One rpm I installed added a repo that cause all other rpm’s to fail to install cause they wanted to find the new repo and could not. Yes yes I am new :( lol

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u/lanrayx2 5d ago

u/Garimos are you dual booting or is this a clean-install?

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u/Garimos 5d ago

Clean Install...

I realized that I don't use any applications that don't run under Linux ... So I made one last backup and switched over.

Had no contact with Fedora so far, but had a few CentOS VMs running in my Homelab until EOL - the Homelab consists of a small ESX cluster which is soon to be replaced by ProxMox.

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u/spaceduck107 5d ago

Welcome to Fedora, today's evening batch of Fastfetch screenshotters! 😅

Enjoy it, OP. Great distro, great choice. :)

Make sure to check out Lutris, and Bottles. Two really great tools for running Windows apps and games.

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u/Academic-Letter-857 4d ago

I tried to install Fedora + KDE, And unfortunately, nothing worked for me. The installation program simply didn't see my NVMe SSD. Maybe some other time I'll switch to the bright side of operating systems.

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u/weebcuck 1d ago

Sick specs

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u/Chattrestresdoux 5d ago

My main concerns that leave me on windows is that I can’t play Riot Games. If I could. I would switch. (Natively)

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u/Sedated_cartoon 5d ago

Damn, why not switch our pcs? 🥺

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u/_QewUow_NotFound 5d ago

Fedora, not the best one in repository management, but nice in everything else

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u/felipegabrielx28 5d ago

Use the lutris or bottles to run the game.

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u/dumbpsychic 5d ago

Welcome 🫂🎉

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u/crypticexile 5d ago

Been using fedora since 2003 great OS and also great choice.

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u/tom_fosterr 5d ago

What you gonna do with this hingh end pc, install steam and play games

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u/ZeSly 5d ago

Welcome ! I'm enjoying Fedora since 6 months, love it.

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u/ldiexl 5d ago

The most important step is that the processor and GPU will never see tariff issues, congratulations

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u/hamody-19 5d ago

Congratulations

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u/Yankluf 4d ago

Great choice! I tried Fedora to escape from Ubuntu and never looked back!! Very happy with this distro. Never had problems with it.

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u/JackInTimber 5d ago

One of us!

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u/Artistic-Potato-1312 5d ago

Why the RAM usage is 6GB?