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> Windows is nowadays required for maybe 2 major things: games (I know, Wine is a thing, but let's be honest: it is very much still a hit or miss) I'll be hone
by kouteiheika 3y ago
> Windows is nowadays required for maybe 2 major things: games (I know, Wine is a thing, but let's be honest: it is very much still a hit or miss)
I'll be honest: I find it that it's very much a hit nowadays, rather than a miss.
With Valve doing so much work around Proton I can basically buy a random Windows-only game off Steam and... it just works. I don't even remember anymore a time when a game I wanted to play didn't just work.
(Of course this doesn't include multiplayer games with anti-cheat. If you like those then yes, you still need Windows.)
- marklar423 3y agoSeconded, Proton has made it absurdly easy, to the point where if you aren't told there's a compatibility layer it's hard to know it's even there.
- not_your_vase 3y agoPossibly you are right. Must admit, I don't play a lot on my PC. I play sometimes the Portal series, which runs natively on Linux. My data set for my previous statement is admittedly not a big one: the one that I wanted to use Wine for was the Syberia series (I'm old), which has reports ranging from "doesn't work" to "works perfectly". It didn't work for me: it randomly either crashed, or just froze a few minutes into the game. Granted, haven't tried it since at least a year or so.