Ubuntu 18.04

[aezakmi]

Hi

I've been reading about this new Ubuntu release and looks like they've dropped that Unity desktop that ate RAM like Chrome, I'd love to install it and remove Bloat 10 forever from my computer but I don't know if my games will run on it, I mainly play:

• League Of Legends
• DOTA 2
• Fallout 4
• Other AAA games

Another big issue would be network config, right now all of the computers on my network have different Windows versions (10 and 7 basically), I use mine to access a single partition on the home NAS (that runs W7) will Ubuntu be able to access and modify this partition?

Is my rig absolutely compatible with this OS? (sig)

[Radium_Angel]

14 minutes ago, aezakmi said:

Hi

I've been reading about this new Ubuntu release and looks like they've dropped that Unity desktop that ate RAM like Chrome, I'd love to install it and remove Bloat 10 forever from my computer but I don't know if my games will run on it, I mainly play:

• League Of Legends
• DOTA 2
• Fallout 4
• Other AAA games

Another big issue would be network config, right now all of the computers on my network have different Windows versions (10 and 7 basically), I use mine to access a single partition on the home NAS (that runs W7) will Ubuntu be able to access and modify this partition?

Is my rig absolutely compatible with this OS? (sig)

Games are easy to check, hit Steam and see. If it's listed, they will run.

And to your NAS, piece of cake, I have the same set up (sans Win10) in my home

[aezakmi]

1 hour ago, Radium_Angel said:

Games are easy to check, hit Steam and see. If it's listed, they will run.

And to your NAS, piece of cake, I have the same set up (sans Win10) in my home

only DOTA is on steam and it should work

 

the NAS was my biggest concern here

[Radium_Angel]

43 minutes ago, aezakmi said:

only DOTA is on steam and it should work

 

the NAS was my biggest concern here

Of course if you system is hardcore enough, run win10 in a VM and enjoy your games, I do this (although with Win7 in a VM) and it's fine.

My NAS devices have no issues with Ubuntu, and I run an older version 14.04 LTS and 16.04 LTS on another system.

[Linus_torvalds]

14 hours ago, aezakmi said:

 I'd love to install it and remove Bloat 10 forever from my computer but I don't know if my games will run on it, I mainly play:

So you are going away from Bloat 10 and installing Bloat 18.04? Cool

 

Just install Debian, or Mint, or Manjaro (if you want arch based distro)

[Terryv]

19 hours ago, aezakmi said:

only DOTA is on steam and it should work

 

the NAS was my biggest concern here

LoL works very well with wine. You'd have to check winehq for compatibility for other games that aren't offered on linux natively.

 

I'm about ready to drop my dual boot for linux. I'm just finding the last of the apps I need.

[panther420]

7 hours ago, mate_mate91 said:

So you are going away from Bloat 10 and installing Bloat 18.04? Cool

 

Just install Debian, or Mint, or Manjaro (if you want arch based distro)

Ubuntu 18.04 was not bloated at all when I tried it in a VM with the new minimal install option during the installer.

[aezakmi]

8 hours ago, mate_mate91 said:

So you are going away from Bloat 10 and installing Bloat 18.04? Cool

 

Just install Debian, or Mint, or Manjaro (if you want arch based distro)

You're saying is just the same? I remember Ubuntu eating a lot of resources back in the 11.X days

on the other hand I did used Mint once, 13 with MATE desktop, and it was great considering my rig had a single core CPU and 512MB RAM, it lacked some customization stuff but that wasn't a problem

2 hours ago, Terryv said:

LoL works very well with wine. You'd have to check winehq for compatibility for other games that aren't offered on linux natively.

 

I'm about ready to drop my dual boot for linux. I'm just finding the last of the apps I need.

just found a guide to make LoL work with different Linux distros, looks like it's finally happening, I also found something called Lutris (not sure what it is) and it says you can play F4 with it by using the AMD Vulkan API https://lutris.net/games/fallout-4/

not sure how to make it work yet, I already have a saved game and I really don't want to lose it, same with LoL, I already have all of the files, it should work

[Terryv]

29 minutes ago, aezakmi said:

I also found something called Lutris (not sure what it is) and it says you can play F4 with it by using the AMD Vulkan API https://lutris.net/games/fallout-4/

not sure how to make it work yet, I already have a saved game and I really don't want to lose it, same with LoL, I already have all of the files, it should work

Lutris is just a front end for wine with some special config files and patches for certain games.

[wasab]

On 5/21/2018 at 2:13 PM, aezakmi said:

Hi

I've been reading about this new Ubuntu release and looks like they've dropped that Unity desktop that ate RAM like Chrome, I'd love to install it and remove Bloat 10 forever from my computer but I don't know if my games will run on it, I mainly play:

• League Of Legends
• DOTA 2
• Fallout 4
• Other AAA games

Another big issue would be network config, right now all of the computers on my network have different Windows versions (10 and 7 basically), I use mine to access a single partition on the home NAS (that runs W7) will Ubuntu be able to access and modify this partition?

Is my rig absolutely compatible with this OS? (sig)

LoL- no

Dota 2 - yeah and it performs better on Linux than on windows.(more FPS) 

Fallout 4 - no

other AAA games: mostly not and most performs worse on Linux than on windows(less FPS) except metro last light which is a rare exception

 

indie games: mostly yes and most performs better on Linux than on windows. That isn’t as relevant though because most of these games are very undemanding.

 

gnome is nearly as resource hungry as unity. You can simply uninstall the desktop and install some lighter desktop enviorment on it. Do note that these are often less pretty and have less functionality than flagship desktops like gnome though. 

 

 

[ltguy]

I never had any luck running LOL on wine, its always lagged and ran poorly. I don't see how switching from unity is an upgrade. Gnome 3 runs the whole UI on a single thread and crashes all the time. I'm staying with kde until gnome is rebuilt from the ground up. KDE uses too much memory as well but at least its silky smooth.

[Ithanul]

3 hours ago, panther420 said:

Ubuntu 18.04 was not bloated at all when I tried it in a VM with the new minimal install option during the installer.

Yep, I have the Mate version running on my Xeon.  24 threads loaded with BOINC and it barely uses 1GB of my RAM.  Minimal install too.

[aezakmi]

1 hour ago, wasab said:

LoL- no

Dota 2 - yeah and it performs better on Linux than on windows.(more FPS) 

Fallout 4 - no

other AAA games: mostly not and most performs worse on Linux than on windows(less FPS) except metro last light which is a rare exception

 

indie games: mostly yes and most performs better on Linux than on windows. That isn’t as relevant though because most of these games are very undemanding.

 

gnome is nearly as resource hungry as unity. You can simply uninstall the desktop and install some lighter desktop enviorment on it. Do note that these are often less pretty and have less functionality than flagship desktops like gnome though. 

 

 

 

2 minutes ago, Ithanul said:

Yep, I have the Mate version running on my Xeon.  24 threads loaded with BOINC and it barely uses 1GB of my RAM.  Minimal install too.

I went for Ubuntu Mate too, mainly because I've used Mint Mate before and want to have stable drivers

I guess we'll see, I'll install in a few hours and with my snail internet it'll take a long while to download updates and drivers.