Neowin's GNU/Linux 2025 Desktop Thread

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Welcome to the 2025 GNU/Linux Desktops Thread

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On 14/01/2025 at 15:23, Apollo13 said:

No problems at all.  World of Warcraft and most of my steam games run great.  Ubisoft games as well... all good!

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What kind of FPS are you getting?

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On 15/01/2025 at 03:51, Apollo13 said:

about the same as I would in Windows. Some games a little less and even in games like WoW I get a few fps better..which surprised me.

Definitely, wow..

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On 19/01/2025 at 16:31, Apollo13 said:

did a three hour raid last night in WoW and not a single hiccup, no lag, just smooth as butter! I was running the new Proton G9-23.  Works perfectly!

Being Arch, though.. That's an achievement.

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On 08/02/2025 at 19:19, Apollo13 said:

Installed the new Xero Linux GNOME distro, so far its really great! Butter smooth with CachyOS Kernel and Nvidia drivers 57x.

I actually tried that once. I wasn't necessarily a big fan of it. How you liking it?

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On 08/02/2025 at 21:41, Mindovermaster said:

 

I actually tried that once. I wasn't necessarily a big fan of it. How you liking it?

I like it a lot...it's more for testing for the guy that does all the work on the new GNOME iso, but he is doing  a fantastic job!  I really like it a lot.

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