Linux and godot/blender

fire7side

Thanks for the information, you guys. I'll do some more research and decide which way to go on it.

Tomcat

DaveTheCoder For example:

I strongly dislike all websites that do not have a “Reject all cookies” option.

DaveTheCoder

Tomcat I strongly dislike all websites that do not have a “Reject all cookies” option.

I use the browser settings or third-party tools such as NoScript to block undesired stuff. I've been using ubuntu.com for a long time and am confident that it doesn't spy on me.

Tomcat

DaveTheCoder I've been using ubuntu.com for a long time and am confident that it doesn't spy on me.

But this creates a certain attitude towards the site itself and what it promotes. Here is an example of a more dignified policy (although we all understand that ASUS, if anyone, definitely monitors its users).

Toxe

DaveTheCoder In Vivaldi I use the "I still don't care about cookies" extension. It's not perfect but it helps a lot.

DaveTheCoder

Tomcat the site itself

It's not my site and I have no control over its cookie policies.

And this is not helpful to the OP in solving his problem.

fire7side

At least they tell you they are tracking, but only if you have software that stops it. I'm actually not against it because it generally means the difference between targeted ads and non targeted ads which the ad blocker stops. They've ruined it for themselves. Even youtube, I was all right with their 5 second ads but suddenly they were a lot longer and were ads on top of ads. They leave us no choice.

kuligs2

fire7side you need 8gb usb flash and youre golden, also make sure your bios can boot from usb. Also if i remember you need UEFI bios these days to boot linux?? Not sure.. but modern mobos already have it.. maybe the ones from 2011 didnt have it.. i remember setting up some PC's that were that era did not like some distros.

I suggest you try out archlinux as it will teach you things you would normaly not learn about linux and how it works. And it has wiki on almost every problem with explanation.

Try to manually install and set up arch - the arch way. And once the test period is over then just use archinstall to make it faster..

Also before that, i suggest you try distros in virtualmachines first. ANd try to set up the apps you normaly want to use to see how to find them and set it up, customize desktop to what you would use etc etc.. this way youll find out what distro and desktop environment works for you the best.

At the time of my transition i went with arch, as it had all the apps up to date that i normally use.

Also make sure the hardware you want to use - works on linux.
Some logitech mice are not fully customizable. Many mice are not. Like things like polling rates, RGB, Acceleration, etc etc..

Also make sure you check monitor setups. Some compositors?? like wayland or x11 will have limitations that you didnt expect - screen tearing if UI scaling is not 100%, etc etc.. multi resolution multi monitor setups works only in some cases..

My desktop environment of choice is KDE. It looks like old windows. Very customizable with applets. And they have lots of native applications like calculator and such that you will find you will have to download manually 😃..

On arch you can install KDE package that will install all the KDE apps and be done with.

Other is linux mint - cinnamon desktop environment that looks like windows. I havent set it up on my arch, as its not advisable to use multiple DE's as they come sometimes wiht conflicting packages and will be kinda wierd..

I had at one point gnome DE and KDE DE and on gnome it would open uz KDE apps with KDE styling and on KDE it would oppen gnome apps with GNOME styling.. its a mess..

Toxe

Generally speaking my Linux of choice these days is Linux Mint. Also I like the Xfce desktop, as it's more lightweight.

fire7side

OK 8 gig flash sounds good, not sure about which distro.

DaveTheCoder

fire7side not sure about which distro

Here's a nice diagram showing the choices:
Linux_Distribution_Timeline
😉

kuligs2

fire7side I wont reccomend debian for the reason that its not usable in modern day.. its for grandmas who are slow with current world technologies

If you have multiple monitors with high refresh rates and different resolutions, and different refresh rates, then you want wayland, not x11 or xorg

If you want to scale your 100incher 4k display so that you can sit back in couch and read the text (150% scale or something) you want wayland

If you have a laptop with one screen then you can go x11/xorg

Now these are not distros its a display server or something

Each distro has many flavors of desktop environments - gnome, kde plasma, cinnamon, xfce, etc etc..

Each one of them has or has not the wayland support.. many are wayland only, many are x11 only.. sure you can go and try to cobble up them to work with anything but thats up to you..

I use KDE - wayland on archlinux.

Arch has up to date packages, latests and greatest, but they are often buggy.. for instance, past 3weeks they broke my mpv media player and now i cant watch in fullscreen because i get flashing white lines on screen..

But, switching up to other linux kernels fixes this bug... so you see, there is always things you will learn when using arch.

I suggest you make a list of applications you need, you want, filetypes you use and see if the distro you choose can satisfy your needs.

Start with virtual machine, install many distros to see if you can use the things you want to use..

Thanks to steam youll be able to game on practically any distro, so dont worry about that.

kuligs2

DaveTheCoder you just confuse people

Fun fact

Ertain

I've been using Linux Mint for many years. It works well for my workflow with Godot, Blender, and Gimp. My hardware is newer, so it's well supported. I have an Nvidia GTX 3060, with a Ryzen 7700 CPU, and 32GB of RAM. Still, though, Linux Mint can work on older hardware. I can't remember how old this goes, but there are some Radeon GPUs that are fully supported right out of the box.

Tomcat

How did the experiment end?

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