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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (6 children)

Probably just a gamer. My cycle is normally:

  1. I’ll switch to Linux permanently this time.
  2. Damn. Game X doesn’t work. Fine, I guess I’ll dual boot.
  3. Meh, restarting is so inconvenient. I’ll just stay in Windows until I’ve completed this game.
  4. I never reboot into Linux. Fine, I’ll run it from a vm instead.
  5. A year or more passes, revert to step one
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Yeah, that's fair.

It's just annoying that the issue isn't even Linux itself most of the time, but rather game developers deliberately breaking or denying support for it.

But at the end of the day, if you can't play your games, you can't play your games, the reason for that doesn't matter.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The way things have gone over recent years, I don’t think it’ll be all that long before I can make a permanent switch.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Gaming on Linux is pretty damn great nowadays. More and more new releases run day one, Proton and Wine are being tirelessly worked on, and for most games it's as simple as enabling Steam Play in an absolutely seamless set-and-forget type of way.

The biggest problem are still competitive games and their anticheat, and while some titles enable Linux support, others go out of their way to show us the middle finger, sometimes even banning accounts using Linux.
And that only gets worse when so many games have moved to more invasive anticheat solutions that wouldn't work the way Linux handles these things.

[–] minh2134 2 points 1 year ago

I use a windows VM with OVMF passthrough. For maximum convenience, I reused my old rx 580 as windowsbox dedicated passthrough gpu, with 8gb of RAM.

It works like a charm. Anything on Linux that can't be run smoothly, VM solves it, at the convenience juat starting the VM when I need it, then close and go on with my day. I also use tiling WM so I can assign the VM to its own workspace, fullscreen and everything, so theres very little friction.

Encourage anyone that is in this situation to try it out, for from what i've seen, the problem is more of compatibility niche problems than actually something inherently wrong with Linux.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

If you don't use your machine nonstop, than restarting shouldn't be an issue. IF shindows can shutdown very quickly, than it should take about a minute or less to switch. You can go to the bathroom and upon return you already have switched.

I use Linux distro almost 24/7, so installing/having another OS just for SOME games is a super huge pain. And I don't game much anyway, cuz potato machine.