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I don't think a lot of Linux gamers play on Linux in a VM on their Windows machine. Why would they? They could run the games natively on Windows. On a Mac ma

I don't think a lot of Linux gamers play on Linux in a VM on their Windows machine. Why would they? They could run the games natively on Windows. On a Mac maybe but also unlikely.

7speter 4y ago
I accidentally bought games exclusively for microsoft off of newegg (they don’t allow returns) and use Linux exclusively. I’m planning on setting up a vm to play them, also r/VFIO is a niche subreddit sorta gaining steam the last I saw. More important than my situation, some people may want to switch to linux but have Adobe software or better features sets available on the Windows version of software like DaVinci resolve that disallows then from totally cutting the cord from Windows.
- augusto-moura 4y ago
  You might be interested in looking-glasses [1], it is a pre-configured setup for running your GPU on a Windows VM by hardware passthrough. Small catch is that you need at least 2 video cards, as you need to give up your main one to the VM [1]: https://looking-glass.io/ https://looking-glass.io/
  - 7speter 4y ago
    Thanks, I’ll check this out. I haven’t had a chance to check play anything recently nor look very deep into vms and passthrough (its on my todo list), but this will likely help a ton :)
    - ElCapitanMarkla 4y ago
      It’s “fun” to get it all up and running and for the most part it works well. But I did start to hit issues like if you want a game of counterstrike it steam didn’t like the fact it was running in a VM, etc. halo infinite etc were all in the same boat. Now whenever I rarely get time to have a quick game its either straight on Linux with Proton or something, most steam installs just seem to work these days. Or I just boot into Windows for a session
xattt 4y ago
I took the statistic to mean overall install base, rather than gaming PCs.

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I don't think a lot of Linux gamers play on Linux in a VM on their Windows machine. Why would they? They could run the games natively on Windows. On a Mac ma

by antiframe 4y ago

I don't think a lot of Linux gamers play on Linux in a VM on their Windows machine. Why would they? They could run the games natively on Windows. On a Mac maybe but also unlikely.

7speter 4y ago
I accidentally bought games exclusively for microsoft off of newegg (they don’t allow returns) and use Linux exclusively. I’m planning on setting up a vm to play them, also r/VFIO is a niche subreddit sorta gaining steam the last I saw. More important than my situation, some people may want to switch to linux but have Adobe software or better features sets available on the Windows version of software like DaVinci resolve that disallows then from totally cutting the cord from Windows.
- augusto-moura 4y ago
  You might be interested in looking-glasses [1], it is a pre-configured setup for running your GPU on a Windows VM by hardware passthrough. Small catch is that you need at least 2 video cards, as you need to give up your main one to the VM [1]: https://looking-glass.io/ https://looking-glass.io/
  - 7speter 4y ago
    Thanks, I’ll check this out. I haven’t had a chance to check play anything recently nor look very deep into vms and passthrough (its on my todo list), but this will likely help a ton :)
    - ElCapitanMarkla 4y ago
      It’s “fun” to get it all up and running and for the most part it works well. But I did start to hit issues like if you want a game of counterstrike it steam didn’t like the fact it was running in a VM, etc. halo infinite etc were all in the same boat. Now whenever I rarely get time to have a quick game its either straight on Linux with Proton or something, most steam installs just seem to work these days. Or I just boot into Windows for a session
xattt 4y ago
I took the statistic to mean overall install base, rather than gaming PCs.