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Now hundreds of hours in, I have nothing interesting to write about it. For me and the games I play it's been a seamless transition.
What about market share of play time?
As someone who only has a windows machine to play games, specifically driving sims, I really wish my hardware worked on Linux.
Nice to see this. Worth noting that a lot of Windows (or DOS) games past may also not run well on current Windows versions. The anti-cheat issue is likely to persist for at lest a few more years... though I think the relative success of the Steam Deck itself has moved the bar significantly in terms of demands for support. I do think there's a few hiccups still with Linux support. The shift up to 6.16 kernel has itsel…
> Worth noting that a lot of Windows (or DOS) games past may also not run well on current Windows versions. To be fair, anything old that wasn't famous has a decent chance to be broken under WINE too. It might just be a single call to some obscure animation API or something, but it can be enough to break the entire game.
That means 10% of windows games use invasive anti-cheat?
All i want is rocket league :(
At least tf2 works
That means 10% of windows games use invasive anti-cheat?
As someone who only has a windows machine to play games, specifically driving sims, I really wish my hardware worked on Linux.
My only limitation to ditch Windows for games is my nvidia card. I wonder if their drivers will become better before I go for an upgrade. I do have a Steam Deck for lower requirement games.
But so much just works, old games, new games, singleplayer, multiplayer.
I can live without that though. I don't think I'll bother setting up a Windows partition on my next PC.
Nice to see this. Worth noting that a lot of Windows (or DOS) games past may also not run well on current Windows versions. The anti-cheat issue is likely to persist for at lest a few more years... though I think the relative success of the Steam Deck itself has moved the bar significantly in terms of demands for support. I do think there's a few hiccups still with Linux support. The shift up to 6.16 kernel has itsel…
> Worth noting that a lot of Windows (or DOS) games past may also not run well on current Windows versions. To be fair, anything old that wasn't famous has a decent chance to be broken under WINE too. It might just be a single call to some obscure animation API or something, but it can be enough to break the entire game.