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Honestly I'm thinking of trying Linux again on my pc next. I only use Win10 to play games on and do some 3D modeling. Linux's game support has gotten a lot better over the years. I tried the Linux daily driver experiment about 18 years ago and it didn't work well. More than enough time to try it again.



I can't tell you about 3D modeling, but gaming should work fine. Proton and WINE are working so well to handle games that it's almost to the level where I consider it magic. Hell, I have some older games that honestly were easier to get running on Linux without having to mess with compatibility options, and newer games are running surprisingly smooth. I do not even have an overpowered machine or anything, it's a 4 year old laptop.


There's a lot of games that still don't work.

Fortunately it's an easy way to pick which games are worth my time.


I did and it worked out fairly well. Lenovo x1 6th gen fingerprint reader didn't work out well but everything else was easy on ubuntu and mint.

Even if you aren't using arch this compatibility list can be a big sign of how your hardware will do; https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Lenovo_ThinkPad_X1_Carbon_(...


Did you try this for the fingerprint reader, out of curiosity? https://github.com/uunicorn/python-validity/blob/master/pyth...

I don't have a Lenovo, I have a Dell, but while tinkering to get the fingerprint reader on my machine working, I had come across this (and I understand it works for Lenovo).


Not that one, but I found something that sort of worked but the false rejection rate was way higher than the windows driver. I just used a password and got a new machine this year.




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