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And Linux gaming is already pretty good. I switched recently, and I'm not planning on looking back. (I hope it lasts, this time.)

by mcv 3y ago

dekken_ 3y ago
I can too play a lot of games on Linux, just not all games that I want to play, yet at least
qwerty456127 3y ago
The only app still making me want Windows is Paint.Net. It really feels by far the best, if not say perfect, non-pro picture editor ever. I would even pay for really good (Pinta is quirky although indispensable) Linux and Mac ports. I also love Visual Studio but JetBrains Rider seems more than a match. Games indeed have ended being a problem long ago. Perhaps some latest and greatest games still are, I dunno. Have anybopdy tried something like Hogwarts Legacy or Baldurs Gate 3 on Linux?
- rpigab 3y ago
  BG3 works well on my new recent install of Debian Bookworm with nonfree sw on, Nvidia RTX 2080 SUPER, nvidia prop driver 525 or 535 I think, KDE Plasma set to Xorg (Wayland caused some flickering, supposedly bad interaction between Wayland and nvidia drivers). I think I don't have advanced stuff like DLSS and HDR though, maybe I could if I did some tinkering.
- lpcvoid 3y ago
  Hogwarts legacy works really well via Proton (Steam). Full AMD system, though.
lkramer 3y ago
Which may be another motivation for them to buy up so much of the gaming industry. They can probably justify blanket banning anyone playing COD on Linux in the name of banning cheaters.
- mcv 3y ago
  I fear you might be right. The gaming market is important to MS, so all this Linux gaming that Valve is actively driving is a threat to them.
dartharva 3y ago
It may be pretty good for previous-gen games and hardware, and that too after various compromises. Current and next-gen PC hardware will always be optimized for Windows first, with some technologies being straight-up limited exclusively to Windows. Not that gamers are losing out on anything valuable, of course. I run Debian stable and spend quite a few times gaming on it, and it turns out almost all the games that won't run on it aren't games worth playing altogether. But this is an opinion of the negligible minority like you and me. The Consumers will obviously care for the latest.
- dotnet00 3y ago
  Current gen games also tend to work immediately or within days of release nowadays.
- mynameisvlad 3y ago
  The Steam Deck is, at least for Valve, a first-class citizen of its platform. Tons of money and effort has been put in to bring it up to Windows. It’s not quite there yet, but it is a lot closer than you’re making it seem.
- mcv 3y ago
  Cyberpunk 2077 works quite well on my RTX4070. The only issue is that the few times it does crash, it takes out the compositor, but that's easily fixed.
  - dartharva 3y ago
    Huh. Does DLSS and ray tracing also work perfectly? What settings are you running the game in?
    - mcv 3y ago
      No DLSS or ray tracing. Those might work if I imported the game into Steam; the it would use the Steam settings where I think they do work, from what I've heard. But I don't care that much about DLSS or ray tracing. Otherwise, I think I've got the highest graphics settings, though I haven't checked them.

And Linux gaming is already pretty good. I switched recently, and I'm not planning on looking back. (I hope it lasts, this time.)

by mcv 3y ago

And Linux gaming is already pretty good. I switched recently, and I'm not planning on looking back. (I hope it lasts, this time.)

dekken_ 3y ago

I can too play a lot of games on Linux, just not all games that I want to play, yet at least

qwerty456127 3y ago

The only app still making me want Windows is Paint.Net. It really feels by far the best, if not say perfect, non-pro picture editor ever. I would even pay for really good (Pinta is quirky although indispensable) Linux and Mac ports. I also love Visual Studio but JetBrains Rider seems more than a match. Games indeed have ended being a problem long ago. Perhaps some latest and greatest games still are, I dunno. Have anybopdy tried something like Hogwarts Legacy or Baldurs Gate 3 on Linux?

rpigab 3y ago
BG3 works well on my new recent install of Debian Bookworm with nonfree sw on, Nvidia RTX 2080 SUPER, nvidia prop driver 525 or 535 I think, KDE Plasma set to Xorg (Wayland caused some flickering, supposedly bad interaction between Wayland and nvidia drivers). I think I don't have advanced stuff like DLSS and HDR though, maybe I could if I did some tinkering.
lpcvoid 3y ago
Hogwarts legacy works really well via Proton (Steam). Full AMD system, though.

lkramer 3y ago

Which may be another motivation for them to buy up so much of the gaming industry. They can probably justify blanket banning anyone playing COD on Linux in the name of banning cheaters.

mcv 3y ago
I fear you might be right. The gaming market is important to MS, so all this Linux gaming that Valve is actively driving is a threat to them.

dartharva 3y ago

It may be pretty good for previous-gen games and hardware, and that too after various compromises. Current and next-gen PC hardware will always be optimized for Windows first, with some technologies being straight-up limited exclusively to Windows. Not that gamers are losing out on anything valuable, of course. I run Debian stable and spend quite a few times gaming on it, and it turns out almost all the games that won't run on it aren't games worth playing altogether. But this is an opinion of the negligible minority like you and me. The Consumers will obviously care for the latest.

dotnet00 3y ago
Current gen games also tend to work immediately or within days of release nowadays.
mynameisvlad 3y ago
The Steam Deck is, at least for Valve, a first-class citizen of its platform. Tons of money and effort has been put in to bring it up to Windows. It’s not quite there yet, but it is a lot closer than you’re making it seem.
mcv 3y ago
Cyberpunk 2077 works quite well on my RTX4070. The only issue is that the few times it does crash, it takes out the compositor, but that's easily fixed.
- dartharva 3y ago
  Huh. Does DLSS and ray tracing also work perfectly? What settings are you running the game in?
  - mcv 3y ago
    No DLSS or ray tracing. Those might work if I imported the game into Steam; the it would use the Steam settings where I think they do work, from what I've heard. But I don't care that much about DLSS or ray tracing. Otherwise, I think I've got the highest graphics settings, though I haven't checked them.