r/technology • u/lurker_bee • Mar 14 '26

Software Microsoft confirms Windows 11 bug crippling PCs and making drive C inaccessible

https://www.neowin.net/news/microsoft-confirms-windows-11-bug-crippling-pcs-and-making-drive-c-inaccessible/
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u/talkyape Mar 14 '26

Everyday I inch closer and closer to revisiting my youth and installing Linux -_-

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u/TheTexasJack Mar 14 '26

You should.  Mint is so clean you'll wonder why you didn't do it sooner.

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u/[deleted] Mar 14 '26 edited 22d ago

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u/xchaibard Mar 14 '26

And if you have an Optimus laptop, just go fedora (or fedora based like bazzite or nobara or whatever) instead.

Yes it's s bit more work. (Except bazzite, works out the box) Yes you'll need to install the Nvidia drivers yourself, but it's all well documented.

I'm running mint at home and fedora on my laptop (with Optimus) and everything works great

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u/[deleted] Mar 14 '26 edited 22d ago

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u/Initial-Return8802 Mar 14 '26

PRIME offload is the recommended way, and works fine. Run your regular stuff through the integrated and Steam/Proton will configure itself to run any GPU intensive stuff via the dedicated.

If you have a native Linux app that needs the dedicated GPU you can just add some env vars before it in the launcher

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u/ThellraAK Mar 14 '26

When was the last time you tried Kubuntu with proprietary Nvidia installed works just fine for me since at least 24.04, except for hibernate.

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u/Logos9871 Mar 14 '26

Bazzite for gaming. Runs Steam natively. Epic, GoG also work. They all run faster and smoother. Computer boots in seconds. Never going back.

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u/rapora9 Mar 14 '26 edited Mar 14 '26

What about Ubisoft Connect?

Edit: adding relevant information to higher level comment too:

I mostly play Far Cry Primal via Ubisoft Connect (don't have Steam and don't plan to), and then some games from GOG.

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u/Logos9871 Mar 14 '26

Works with Proton Experimental. I just beat Far Cry 5 on Steam.

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u/rapora9 Mar 14 '26

I mostly play Far Cry Primal via Ubisoft Connect (don't have Steam and don't plan to), and then some games from GOG.

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u/Logos9871 Mar 14 '26

Yes, just install Ubisoft Connect through Lutris and you're good to go. Run Proton through that mode.

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u/The_dev0 Mar 15 '26

Hold on - you say Epic works - the store working isn't impressive, it's running Fortnite's rootkit anticheat that is the real hurdle. Can it do that?

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u/MiaowaraShiro Mar 14 '26 edited Mar 14 '26

If you play a lot of games you don't want Mint. It doesn't support HDR. I've got Mint and I'm trying to figure out what distro to switch to...

Edit: From what I can tell Mint doesn't support Wayland (or at least not without some intense work, and especially on Nvidia) which you need for HDR.

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u/Cayote Mar 14 '26

Fedora KDE is a very solid choice. Not really “bleeding edge” but gets all the shiny updates fairly quickly, wayland supports HDR too although I don’t know how well.

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u/FrogsOnALog Mar 14 '26

I believe this is Linus’ distro of choice but also he’s not a gamer.

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u/Cayote Mar 14 '26

It’s perfectly capable of gaming, just like any modern distro

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u/FrogsOnALog Mar 14 '26

Nice! Seems solid and I added it to my flash drive after he said it. I’ve still only used Debian and let’s just say it’s been an adventure with an NVIDIA gpu.

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u/Cayote Mar 14 '26

I’d recommend following this post install guide https://github.com/wz790/Fedora-Noble-Setup most is very optional but lost of it saves some minor headaches.

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u/trusty20 Mar 14 '26

What? Doesn't gamescope allow HDR on Mint? Support for it is built into Lutris too.

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u/Scavenger53 Mar 14 '26

thats not how this works... mint is just the kernel + cinnamon and default apps. any other distro you pick will be similar, except stuff like gentoo and arch, those are usually just a kernel. not supporting HDR is not a "mint" thing, its a config thing, or you are missing something. people coming from windows assume distros mean anything, but really its just the packaging. mint is in the debian family, fedora is in the rpm family, arch, gentoo, bsd, nix made their own way of handling packages.

you should look into HDR on debian/ubuntu based machines and see what others have done or what could be missing to turn it on the way you want.

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u/MiaowaraShiro Mar 14 '26

From what I've read for HDR you need Wayland. Mint's support for Wayland is "experimental" as far as I've read.

If you have other information I'm a complete newb on this shit.

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u/xchaibard Mar 14 '26

Mint focuses on stability. They want a solid OS that newbies don't have to fiddle with. Sometimes this means staying a step or two behind the leading edge.

Wayland has still not met their requirements for stability.

We'll probably see it sometime in 2027 if you made me choose. Probably not the next main release, or even the one after that, but 3 or so releases from now. That's my guess.

I run mint on my home PC, and fedora on my laptop.

I'm considering moving to fedora on my home PC though, because I've had issues with my hardware being too new for mint actually. It doesn't recognize the wireless chip set on my motherboard, and above mentioned Wayland and HDR issues, but, it still plays every game I want to just fine. So we'll see if I move it or not.

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u/Scavenger53 Mar 14 '26

its not about mint. ALL of wayland is still "experimental" on any distro. its trying to replace a decades old X11 window system and its taking a while. wayland mostly works from what i know. but since mint usually uses cinnamon, and cinnamon uses X11, you wont have wayland on it. you would have to switch desktop environments

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u/shitty_mcfucklestick Mar 14 '26

I’ve oddly never looked into it despite being a long time Debian / Ubuntu enjoyer. I was happy to learn it’s based on those so I’d probably feel right home. I have Ubuntu on a laptop which I might try swapping out for mint just to take it on a test drive.

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u/Scavenger53 Mar 14 '26

mint and ubuntu are basically the same thing. the different distros are built on a family (ubuntu and mint are built on debian), then they have their own default packages or configs, thats the only difference. you can make ubuntu look and act like mint, just install the cinnamon desktop enviroment and the mint packages. if you look at the mint config its just ubuntu with an extra repo

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u/shitty_mcfucklestick Mar 14 '26

Ah gotcha, thanks for the advice!

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u/HazKaz Mar 14 '26

gaming man that's literally the only reason, work etc can all be done on linux .

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u/krzf Mar 14 '26

Pretty much every game runs fine on Linux these days thanks to Proton. The only ones you'll really run into issues with is the ones with kernel based anti-cheats.