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Now that Steam has Proton, my only remaining need for windows has evaporated. Good riddance.
by jcalvinowens 1y ago
Now that Steam has Proton, my only remaining need for windows has evaporated. Good riddance.
- 2OEH8eoCRo0 1y agoThink Steam proton will support GTA VI? I doubt it since it still doesn't support GTA V online
- Fire-Dragon-DoL 1y agoI wish it was the same for me. Nucleus coop is windows only and so many mods work only there,so I still need windows for gaming. I'm with you though ,I wish I could completely swap
- voidfunc 1y agoProton's good-ish. But if you want to play a lot of AAA games it's a non-starter especially if they have invasive kernel anti-cheat.
- autoexec 1y agoThankfully I don't want and will never want any games that infect my systems with "anti-cheat" malware so I see the lack of support for it as a feature.
- naikrovek 1y agoplaying any game with an invasive kernel anti-cheat is a non-starter on its own. no game is worth that.
- jcalvinowens 1y agoI tend to play indie games, but I've never had anti-cheat problems. Everything happily runs on 6.17-rc5 right now.
- ginko 1y agoWhy would you willingly install games with invasive kernel anti-cheat? That's unacceptable both on Linux or Windows.
- jawilson2 1y agoWhat would you suggest to my kids that game with their friends and want to play Rocket League or Fortnite?
- Marsymars 1y agoA console?
- lurk2 1y agoSaying “no.”
- lawlessone 1y agoI only let my children play SuperTuxKart, and read them OSS licenses when i tuck them in at night.
- voidfunc 1y agoBecause people want to play fun games with their friends and sometimes playing games with kernel anti-cheat is a requirement?
- polski-g 1y agoMicrosoft needs to provide their own anti-cheat hooks and block any kernel-level mods entirely.
- lupusreal 1y agoAAA games are overproduced crap that compensate with aggressive marketing.
- voidfunc 1y agoOpinions are like assholes, everyone has one.
- ThrowMeAway1618 1y ago>Opinions are like assholes, everyone has one. And we're working hard[0] to identify you based on yours. Will wonders never cease? [0] https://archive.ph/v0puA https://archive.ph/v0puA
- akimbostrawman 1y agoTo quote myself because it's getting tiresome I wish people would stop bringing this up which has not been true for years. Around 40-50% of kernel level anti cheats work and are supported (in user space). https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45050913 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45050913 Not to mention that AAA or any games with anti cheat are in the minority of all games.
- barbazoo 1y agoWhat Linux distro would you recommend to be able to run Proton to play windows games but also for day to day light (mostly browser) use, SteamOS?
- rightbyte 1y agoDebian works fine with Proton for me. I think it is not very picky.
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- scuff3d 1y agoIf you want a more curated experience that takes a lot of the rough edges off Linux: https://bazzite.gg https://bazzite.gg Bazzite isn't going to be as flexible as some other distros, but it's goal is to make the Linux transition as easy as possible. It's aimed primarily at gamers but you'll get a full OS that you can do all the normal stuff on
- BoredPositron 1y agoYou can't perform all the usual tasks with it; it's a limited, immutable Arch derivative. Edit: Not arch but fedora.
- LaxisB 1y agoyou might be thinking of the new KDE distro. bazzite is fedora silverblue based. iirc there's access to flatpak homebrew, as well as rpm-ostree (basically rpm) among others
- BoredPositron 1y agoYou are right :)
- scuff3d 1y agoFor regular people that just want gaming and a web browser it's fine. It would drive people like us nuts, but they aren't gonna care. It can load into a desktop environment by default and you can install Flatpacks, and it comes setup for gaming out of the box. That's enough for 90% of people.
- nozzlegear 1y agoWe recently replaced my wife's aging Windows PC with a Mac Mini, which eliminated the last Windows machine in our household. It feels good to be free of it, and our Macs handle World of Warcraft – the only game either of us play – without any problems.
- anal_reactor 1y agoMy parents specifically need MS Office. LibreOffice won't do the job for them, because they deal with a lot of documents sent to them by other people, and also they're used to the interface.
- jcalvinowens 1y agoDoesn't microsoft have office in the browser now? I'd think that would be a way around it. But I don't know, the last time I actually used MS office was over ten years ago...