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I made the jump a few years ago and the experience has been largely great. Lots of learning, which has been half the fun, and no goddamn ads in my start menu.

I made the jump a few years ago and the experience has been largely great. Lots of learning, which has been half the fun, and no goddamn ads in my start menu. Totally usable as a daily driver, provided you don't need Windows only software. The year of linux on the desktop was probably about 2020.

wing-_-nuts 2y ago
Steam's proton has made gaming on linux astoundingly good. The only thing that still needs improvement is mod support, as mod managers, game downgraders, bin patchers, some more involved mods involve little utilities written for windows that are not easily runnable on linux. It is slowly improving though. The steam deck has moved things forward in leaps and bounds.
- SirMaster 2y ago
  It seems like basically all the games I play aren't supported on this unfortunately and it feels like they never will be.
  - joseda-hg 2y ago
    You do competitive games? Those have been so far Proton's biggest weakness, but that's usually less of a technical limitation and more of a company decision, which given enough pressure can be changed
    - SirMaster 2y ago
      All I play are online multiplayer games so yeah. I play Battlefield 2042, Call of Duty Warzone, Apex Legends, PUBG, Rainbow 6 Siege, and Fortnite all somewhat regularly and none of these as far as I know work. The only games that I do play regularly that work are Counter Strike 2 and DotA. Though I can't use Faceit for CS2 which would be ideal.
      - wing-_-nuts 2y ago
        Ah, see as a guy in my 40's, my reflexes just aren't what they used to be. I used to be lethal in my teens, but these days I tend to mainly play single player or coop games. If you play games that require kernel level anti-cheat, yeah those will probably never be supported on linux.
  - immibis 2y ago
    Force override it in the game settings. Works on 99% of games. Probably not multiplayer games with anti-cheat, because if you're not using a software chain fully validated by Microsoft then you're cheating.
DrillShopper 2y ago
Even then, a VM can get you really far. If you need direct hardware access (like for gaming) then you can run a passthrough VM. You can do that even on a single video card system.
- Teever 2y ago
  > You can do that even on a single video card system. Like with consumer video cards? Tell me more.
  - DrillShopper 2y ago
    With consumer video cards: https://github.com/martinopiaggi/Single-GPU-Passthrough-for-Dummies https://github.com/martinopiaggi/Single-GPU-Passthrough-for-... I don't believe you have to VBIOS patch anymore

wing-_-nuts 2y ago

Steam's proton has made gaming on linux astoundingly good. The only thing that still needs improvement is mod support, as mod managers, game downgraders, bin patchers, some more involved mods involve little utilities written for windows that are not easily runnable on linux. It is slowly improving though. The steam deck has moved things forward in leaps and bounds.

SirMaster 2y ago
It seems like basically all the games I play aren't supported on this unfortunately and it feels like they never will be.
- joseda-hg 2y ago
  You do competitive games? Those have been so far Proton's biggest weakness, but that's usually less of a technical limitation and more of a company decision, which given enough pressure can be changed
  - SirMaster 2y ago
    All I play are online multiplayer games so yeah. I play Battlefield 2042, Call of Duty Warzone, Apex Legends, PUBG, Rainbow 6 Siege, and Fortnite all somewhat regularly and none of these as far as I know work. The only games that I do play regularly that work are Counter Strike 2 and DotA. Though I can't use Faceit for CS2 which would be ideal.
    - wing-_-nuts 2y ago
      Ah, see as a guy in my 40's, my reflexes just aren't what they used to be. I used to be lethal in my teens, but these days I tend to mainly play single player or coop games. If you play games that require kernel level anti-cheat, yeah those will probably never be supported on linux.
- immibis 2y ago
  Force override it in the game settings. Works on 99% of games. Probably not multiplayer games with anti-cheat, because if you're not using a software chain fully validated by Microsoft then you're cheating.

DrillShopper 2y ago

Even then, a VM can get you really far. If you need direct hardware access (like for gaming) then you can run a passthrough VM. You can do that even on a single video card system.

Teever 2y ago
> You can do that even on a single video card system. Like with consumer video cards? Tell me more.
- DrillShopper 2y ago
  With consumer video cards: https://github.com/martinopiaggi/Single-GPU-Passthrough-for-Dummies https://github.com/martinopiaggi/Single-GPU-Passthrough-for-... I don't believe you have to VBIOS patch anymore