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I disagree, in my experience with the recent improvements to Wine, drivers, etc, if you have a bit of Linux knowledge you can get games work just as fine in Win
by badsectoracula 5y ago
I disagree, in my experience with the recent improvements to Wine, drivers, etc, if you have a bit of Linux knowledge you can get games work just as fine in Windows - with the possible exception of games that use anticheat malware (because frankly, software that relies on kernel-level hacks, etc is basically malware). Though personally i stick with SP games anyway.
Also...
> Like Linus says in that video, when I have time to play video games, I really don't want to pull out a debugger
...Linus is most likely blind to all the issues he may have to get games to work under Windows because he's used to them. I've been playing games on Windows for decades and it was never a plug-and-play experience (...or it was, if you consider the original PnP experience back in the 90s :-P). If games worked perfectly under Windows you wouldn't have sites like pcgamingwiki.
Hell, i remember buying Tomb Raider 2013 back when it was new and having to trace through its registry calls on Windows to get it to work properly because its launcher was broken on my PC at the time. Incidentally that was supposed to be my relaxation time when i went home after work.
(of course i do not expect Linus -or most people- to do the same, they'd most likely just drop it for some other game and wait for a fix - but i had just bought the game and i wanted to play it right then)
In my experience it is rare to have a PC game on Windows play right away without any issues. If anything when it comes to slightly older games on Windows i had to use wrappers like DXVK to get games working properly due to the broken AMD Windows drivers.
At the past i might have written here that if you want a problem-free experience stick with consoles, but judging from videos i see from channels like DigitalFoundry, it seems consoles have a ton of issues nowadays too (it isn't common but i found it amusing that some people seem to jailbreak their Switches to make games work better :-P). And these come with their own issues anyway, personally i wouldn't touch any locked down DRM riddled system anyway.