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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.
NVidia has probably the best support for Linux. None of the "game" versus "studio" nonsense, either.
2003 me thought Wine is a dead end project and a waste of developer time. Granted valve put a lot of effort into Proton but they wouldn't even have considered it without the massive amount of work done before, kudus to all the non cynical wine devs
I'm never going back. If something changes and the only option is Windows or consoles I'll just stop buying new games or take up another hobby. Being able to use sane scripting to solve problems, ZFS snapshots to undo bad mod installs, using the same system for development, and so on is no longer something I'm willing to give up. I've also started amassing a small collection of Cloud Init configs that set up game ser…
Pop OS! With NVIDIA GPU here. Shit just works. When it doesn't, changing the proton version usually fixes it. Way better than Windows.
I realize by posting that here on HN I'm tempting people to send me the ProtonDB garbage tier list, but it's true for the types of games I play.
Number of games is a weird statistic. What about market share of play time?
So for me it's better than 90% of all games are playable on Linux, than if a handful of games accounting for 90% of market share were playable.
Biggest problem I'm running into now is replacing all my music mixing tools. It's getting there, but it's a whole process.
In terms of compatibility and performance, there is a noticeable increase over the last years since Proton came up. Racing wheels are still not well supported IMO. Although on Linux you can map a racing wheel to any other peripheral and work this around. Another thing is that streaming experience is not as good on Linux as it is on Windows. OBS exists but the whole ecosystem around it is largely not. Still... Linux i…
It'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.
What were you trying to run games on before you bought the so called "vanilla" PC?
Number of games is a weird statistic. What about market share of play time?
As a young teen with nothing to do, I probably had some days in Summer where I clocked in 16 hours of gaming.
I'm never going back. If something changes and the only option is Windows or consoles I'll just stop buying new games or take up another hobby. Being able to use sane scripting to solve problems, ZFS snapshots to undo bad mod installs, using the same system for development, and so on is no longer something I'm willing to give up. I've also started amassing a small collection of Cloud Init configs that set up game ser…
Pop OS! With NVIDIA GPU here. Shit just works. When it doesn't, changing the proton version usually fixes it. Way better than Windows.