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“Never before in the history of the Microsoft Windows operating system has there been a forced hardware migration requirement. And this cannot be solved by swapping out a graphics card. It requires a CPU upgrade for over 100 million gamers, which, in turn, requires a motherboard upgrade and most likely RAM as well,” said Ted Pollak, JPR’s senior analyst of game tech.
Of course, it can also be solved by switching from Windows to Linux. No hardware upgrades necessary unless some existing components lack Linux drivers, and those can often be upgraded individually instead of replacing the entire PC.
The main exception is for competitive games using certain anti-cheat systems that are incompatible with Linux. People who want to play those games will probably have to go the expensive route.
Recently did this. I have a fair bit of history in CLI Linux and ancient desktop distributions. However, it’s my first time using Arch. Not only did archinstall sidestep the meme that Arch is hard to install, but I just installed nvidia drivers, steam, and started playing games. Aside from arch not coming with a browser by default to help look up things on the wiki (I didn’t specify in archinstall, so my fault), one pacman command later and it’s time to configure it to my liking.
For anyone else reading this: Arch is a popular Linux distribution that’s aimed at enthusiasts who either already know the basics or are prepared to spend a lot of time learning. There are other Linux distros that will be easier for first-timers, such as Linux Mint.
Yep, or Pop! OS.
I was just surprised exactly how easy Arch was after years of being told it’s practically like building your own distro by yourself. I was meaning to convey even the memetically difficult distribution is not that hard anymore.
Bazzite is great for gaming
For anyone reading more: Archlinux is a barebones distribution of Linux, where the user is expected to know what is doing and wanting to learn. And for those who want to build “from scratch” (not literally, you know what I mean) their own distribution basically.
However I think there is a little bit confusion about this topic. Because there are full fledged distributions that use Archlinux as their base. Many people say they use Arch, even tho they use a derivative distribution of Archlinux (which in itself is not entirely wrong, depending on the view). And they recommend Arch for beginners, because their experience is “easy”. Therefore it is immensely important to make this distinction clear.
Anyone starting out with Linux and wanting to use Archlinux, I recommend instead to use a ready to go distribution. And if the end goal is Arch, then at least start with something like EndeavourOS and then later start over with Archlinux. And if not, there are better first time distributions, unless you really want get into the details of an operating system and Linux and terminal commands. In that case, go for it, go for Arch.
Makes sense. A lot of people will need new hardware to upgrade to W11.
Also, I hope Linux grows a lot from this too.
