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A long time ago, Windows was a simple, hassle-free system to run games on. I knew Linux, but I knew Linux would take time to maintain and tinker around with, si

by tetha 2y ago

A long time ago, Windows was a simple, hassle-free system to run games on. I knew Linux, but I knew Linux would take time to maintain and tinker around with, since that was my job. Thus, my private systems stuck with Windows. Then Wine and especially Steam and Proton started to get to work, and Windows started to turn anti-consumer to a degree. At that point, I was kinda on the fence. Actively switching seemed somewhat scary, but if I had to setup something new, it was kinda... meh either way. Then my Windows-OS SSD died. So I had to reinstall my OS anyway. Then I made the choice to install Fedora and switch back to Windows when it grows annoying. That was... two or three or more years ago? And the thing is, games work. Apps work. Funny enough, old games work better with DosBox and Wine than on windows. I have like two old games I can't get to run, but that's mostly because I don't have the energy to figure out QEMU with Direct3D support, which VirtualBox dropped some time ago for security reasons. And now I'm looking at stuff like this.

nucleardog 2y ago
Hey, me too. I managed Linux and BSD on servers all over the place. I worked pretty much exclusively using a Linux VM ... under Windows. Keeps most of the gremlins at bay. Hardware stuff's all handled by Windows, so it generally just works. Trying to play a game? Just run it in Windows and don't worry about it. Every year or so I'd grab a live image and boot it and see what happened. But always ended up at "okay, too much hassle still". Then a few things happened: 1. Valve invested heavily in Proton. They released the Steam Deck so suddenly developers _wanted_ their games to work in Proton. 2. One day I booted up a linux live image and stuff like my webcam just worked out of the box. 3. Microsoft released Windows 11. Upgraded my computer at one point and I just went ahead and threw Debian on it and haven't really run Windows since. (Though I still have it installed. I still haven't found a good alternative to Adobe Lightroom.) I too am really glad I got off of that ride when I did.

by tetha 2y ago

nucleardog 2y ago

Hey, me too. I managed Linux and BSD on servers all over the place. I worked pretty much exclusively using a Linux VM ... under Windows. Keeps most of the gremlins at bay. Hardware stuff's all handled by Windows, so it generally just works. Trying to play a game? Just run it in Windows and don't worry about it. Every year or so I'd grab a live image and boot it and see what happened. But always ended up at "okay, too much hassle still". Then a few things happened: 1. Valve invested heavily in Proton. They released the Steam Deck so suddenly developers _wanted_ their games to work in Proton. 2. One day I booted up a linux live image and stuff like my webcam just worked out of the box. 3. Microsoft released Windows 11. Upgraded my computer at one point and I just went ahead and threw Debian on it and haven't really run Windows since. (Though I still have it installed. I still haven't found a good alternative to Adobe Lightroom.) I too am really glad I got off of that ride when I did.