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I'd love to switch to linux. But I love the video games, and I'm a pirate, because I'm broke. Until Linux gets real support for games, I can't join.
Dual boot or vm or use proton. The steam deck uses Linux and uses proton. I haven't had a game not run smoothly while using proton either.
I tried dual booting for a while but eventually I just stopped using the Linux side. Didn't really have a reason to switch over when everything worked fine on Windows. Id just keep using windows after I used whatever software or game only worked on windows cause it was just more convenient. I did really like Linux and there were a lot of really cool things about it but until Linux reaches a point where all the big games, both on and off steam, work on Linux without having to follow some guide I just don't think it's for me.
Ya that makes sense. I find a lot of my work is mostly stuff that's easier to use on Linux, like spinning up VMs or just programming in general. What programs do you use that aren't compatible or dont have an alternative on Linux?
It was mostly games (mainly Microsoft ones, no surprise there) and the fact that at the time I was going to college for game programming, so needed to use stuff like Unity and Unreal Engine. Which I think I saw with Unreal Engine you can make it work on Linux but you had to like compile it yourself and I didn't want to deal with running into problems with that since I was using it for my classes. Although now that I've graduated I might give it a try, see if anything has changed since I last gave Linux a shot. Just seems like in general a lot of game development stuff is done more on Windows unless you're not using a commercial engine.
Omg yeah that makes sense. I have the same thing but with excel, one of my classes it's like a must have so I just pop open a VM to get it running bc I don't want to figure out how to wine it. I'm using PopOS rn and it's really easy to use and install drivers, so if you're gonna get back into a Linux distro I'd def recommend that.
Pop Os was actually what I used before funnily enough and yeah I found it really nice. Probably will try that again when I get the chance.