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Goodbye Windows #1
Since my Windows partition is fucked and just letting it sit there is a waste of 900 GB, I finally backed up, deleted all the Windows-related partitions and EFI files, and resized my Arch partition. Goodbye broken Microsoft shit, hello 1 TB of Linux Biggrin

Edit: Steam works like a charm on Arch even with no official support from Valve Tongue
(This post was last modified: 06-27-2017, 05:22 PM by Inori.)
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RE: Goodbye Windows #2
Hell yeah. If I had a proper setup and when I get a stable wired network connection, I will be making the plunge to full Linux. Congratulations on freeing yourself from the plague.
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RE: Goodbye Windows #3
Congrats!

Welcome to 1TB of Arch!
(This post was last modified: 06-27-2017, 06:12 PM by Blink.)


(11-02-2018, 02:51 AM)Skullmeat Wrote: Ok, there no real practical reason for doing this, but that's never stopped me.

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RE: Goodbye Windows #4
Yeah I finally completely gave up Windows too. I'm on Arch now and I'm not looking back Biggrin
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RE: Goodbye Windows #5
(06-27-2017, 05:09 PM)Inori Wrote: Steam works like a charm on Arch even with no official support from Valve Tongue

Well that's cool. It works like shit on debian...

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RE: Goodbye Windows #6
I'm considering my next purchase which will hopefully be a desktop, to run Linux exclusively. But, don't get me wrong, I love windows 10 (and java so you guys can really hate me). My main concern was with any difficulties with Steam and playing online games on a Linux platform, although I've read several distros handle it quite well.
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RE: Goodbye Windows #7
(06-27-2017, 06:21 PM)Pikami Wrote:
(06-27-2017, 05:09 PM)Inori Wrote: Steam works like a charm on Arch even with no official support from Valve Tongue

Well that's cool. It works like shit on debian...

That's ironic, considering Debian is the only officially supported distro.
It's often the outcasts, the iconoclasts ... those who have the least to lose because they
don't have much in the first place, who feel the new currents and ride them the farthest.

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RE: Goodbye Windows #8
(06-27-2017, 09:45 PM)Inori Wrote:
(06-27-2017, 06:21 PM)Pikami Wrote:
(06-27-2017, 05:09 PM)Inori Wrote: Steam works like a charm on Arch even with no official support from Valve Tongue

Well that's cool. It works like shit on debian...

That's ironic, considering Debian is the only officially supported distro.

It was a huge pain to set it up.
First I installed it on my 32bit box: "The 32bit version does not support browsing" and let's face it, the steam client is just a big browser...
Ok I'm going to install it on my 64bit box - I tought to myself.
Having issues while installing: "WTF?! It requires 32bit libraries on a 64bit OS? You must be fucking with me right now..."
Pulled some libs from debian repo, steam finally launches!!!
15 minutes later, kernel panic - FUCK!!!

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RE: Goodbye Windows #9
(06-27-2017, 10:21 PM)Pikami Wrote:
(06-27-2017, 09:45 PM)Inori Wrote:
(06-27-2017, 06:21 PM)Pikami Wrote: Well that's cool. It works like shit on debian...

That's ironic, considering Debian is the only officially supported distro.

It was a huge pain to set it up.
First I installed it on my 32bit box: "The 32bit version does not support browsing" and let's face it, the steam client is just a big browser...
Ok I'm going to install it on my 64bit box - I tought to myself.
Having issues while installing: "WTF?! It requires 32bit libraries on a 64bit OS? You must be fucking with me right now..."
Pulled some libs from debian repo, steam finally launches!!!
15 minutes later, kernel panic - FUCK!!!

Ouch. The only notable thing on the Arch wiki was a note that said you need the multilib repo, which kind of makes sense? I don't know why mixing x86/x86_64 is even a thing though.
It's often the outcasts, the iconoclasts ... those who have the least to lose because they
don't have much in the first place, who feel the new currents and ride them the farthest.

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RE: Goodbye Windows #10
(06-27-2017, 05:09 PM)Inori Wrote: Since my Windows partition is fucked and just letting it sit there is a waste of 900 GB, I finally backed up, deleted all the Windows-related partitions and EFI files, and resized my Arch partition. Goodbye broken Microsoft shit, hello 1 TB of Linux Biggrin

Edit: Steam works like a charm on Arch even with no official support from Valve Tongue

Welcome to Linux! Steam does work like a charm on Arch. Right out of the box it works on Manjaro too. It was a pain getting Steam configured on Ubuntu.
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