There's really not many reasons left to not use Linux. With windows 11 it's only going to get better as more refugees switch
If Adobe apps worked on Linux, I'd switch in a heartbeat.
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Nearly 90% of Windows Games Now Run on Linux
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Re: Nearly 90% of Windows Games Now Run on Linux
#132Funny. About 50% of my steam games do not run on linux and while many can be installed they usually come with all kinds of glitches and issues. The harsh reality is that until linux requires absolutely zero extra lift for end users, windows will still be the default for the overwhelming majority. God i hate windows but they are the only company who gives a damn about gaming anymore.
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Re: Nearly 90% of Windows Games Now Run on Linux
#133Proton/Wine is so good these days. Rarely have I had an issue running a game in the last 3 or 4 years. Sometimes EA/Ubisoft games that have their own special launchers don't work immediately, but ProtonDB and the Proton GitHub issues are great resources to get them going. I remember when Cyberpunk 2077 came out it didn't work at first, but the Proton and Glorious Egg Roll devs got it running within a few days. Legend…
Out of the 150-isg games in my library, the only one I have had any issue with is 'From Dust' released in 2011. This is part because of the Ubisoft launcher and some video codex issues, but even so. Switching the too and from the game a few times seems to get past this.
About a month back, a demo for Lumines Arise came out and it fired up without issue, didn't even think to check ProtonDB because it has become so reliable. I suspect a big part of this is because Steamdeck has been popular enough to have it be targeted for Proton compatibility day 1.
Re: Nearly 90% of Windows Games Now Run on Linux
#134I've gone over to Linux after using Windows for 25 years. As someone who enjoys older games, I am pleasantly surprised that Wine (with dxvk and cnc-ddraw) lets me run more games in a better way than I was able to on Windows. I can run some 16-bit games on a 64-bit OS! Games that rudely switch to fullscreen, I can run in Wine Virtual Desktop. Previously on Windows, I had to configure hacks like DxWnd and it didn't alw…
> Games that rudely switch to fullscreen, I can run in Wine Virtual Desktop. Previously on Windows, I had to configure hacks like DxWnd and it didn't always work. Maybe Wine could be ported to Windows :-)
You can already run it in WSL2, apparently.
Re: Nearly 90% of Windows Games Now Run on Linux
#135I switched to Slackware in the early oughts, but gaming was hit and miss at best with Wine. The occasional native game (like Neverwinter Nights) was always welcome.
I've dual booted to game for the last seven or eight years because of coworkers and family nagging me to play games with them, but now I don't need to. I haven't come across a game that won't run flawlessly on Linux (through Steam) for a couple of years now. I can enjoy my nightly game of Deep Rock Galactic or Necesse without being part of the botnet.
No further requirement to run Windows!
Re: Nearly 90% of Windows Games Now Run on Linux
#136I am an avid linux user but never switched my gaming PC to linux, until the Win10 > Win11 debacle which has made me switch.
I am using EndeavorOS, my first Arch flavoured distro, it's excellent. Honestly it has all "just worked". Drivers were auto installed, I pointed Steam to my existing library on an NTFS drive originally used by windows, and it just plays my existing library fine.
Cyberpunk2077, Red Dead 2, Starfield all objectively AAA modern games, working fine. I even get a bit better performance in some areas, comparable in others.
I can swap back to windows and it still runs the same library. I really didn't expect it to work like that.
The only thing I have had to troubleshoot is getting a Quest3 VR headset to work, and an Alpha stage game which others are getting to work, I just haven't bothered to chase it down.
Re: Nearly 90% of Windows Games Now Run on Linux
#137It's been months since I've booted into Windows to play a game. Feels amazing. The only exception I've run into is heavy anticheat titles, like trying to play on Faceit CS2 servers. I can live without that though. I don't think I'll bother setting up a Windows partition on my next PC.
I think the last time I had Windows installed was right around the release of Proton in 2018. Those initial releases were not great but the trend was very obvious.
There comes a point were you just don't miss it. The only moments that it is apparent is that disassociation you have when someone else just assumes you run Windows. I don't blame them, I am statistically the odd one there, but that is when you have to figure out things your way.
Re: Nearly 90% of Windows Games Now Run on Linux
#138It's a bit painful hearing all of the success stories on this page. I ran into endless bugs running games under Wine, eventually gave up and bought a vanilla PC just to run Windows for games, and that still gives me endless bugs with most major games, but somewhat less than Linux does. With my level of hardware fu I should stick to consoles, but mods make games accessible to me.
I think the difference is that we aren't talking about stock Wine, but Steam+Proton (which uses Wine, but just makes everything seamless).
I uninstalled Windows completely. There are many, many more games that work on my Linux PC than on my Mac.
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#139Will MS implement some kind of software signing that breaks wine?
Not impossible but that might be something that would eventually force developers onto tools that don't have that restriction.
A walled garden doesn't just keep people in, but it keeps other out. And once folks jump out they aren't likely to jump back in.
Re: Nearly 90% of Windows Games Now Run on Linux
#140nixos on zfs is a fun one, allowing you to tailor specific environments to specific games if you so choose. Not that I've needed to very often. Steam mostly Just Works(tm) now.