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I had a really nice #LinuxGaming moment last night (ma.fellr.net)

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I had a really nice #LinuxGaming moment last night

I finally formatted one of my 1 TB SSDs as EXT4 to make room for #Steam games on my #ArchLinux install.

Then, I installed Transport Fever 2 and played it through my #SteamLink

And you know what? It just worked. It was a miracle! I just happily played for an hour without even noticing I'm not running #Windows. Zero tinkering. Thanks #Valve. ☺

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[–] usbpc 4 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Awesome.

In my mind Linux is something I use on servers, but on my desktop I'm far too used to Windows. And since everything I want "just works" on Windows I haven't really found the motivation to try / switch over to Linux for my desktop.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Gaming on Linux and even general use on Linux has come a LONG way the last few years. The number of "it just works" scenarios go up, and cases requiring some tinkering are getting fewer and fewer. All without license keys, ads in the start menu, forced updates at inopportune moments, and general enshitification

That said, I wouldn't say gaming is "better" in Linux, but in many cases it's on par with Windows. Probably the two most notably weak points are VR support, and certain AAA games anti-cheat not allowing Linux/Proton (even though it's technically capable of running)

[–] usbpc 3 points 1 year ago

Yea like I said it isn't really that I think that Linux is way worse or anything, but nothing is really motivating to switch.

I have all the applications I use figured out, some of them have no direct Linux counterpart (For one I really like the MS Office Suite and no Open Source alternative is as good in my opinion). And with WSL I have a lovely Linux terminal that I can use in Windows.

And I have to say I have never found Windows Updates to be a problem, I shut down my PC every day, and when there is a update to install I install it. Windows never forced me to install an update while I was using my PC.

The only thing that is really annoying me in Windows is the start menu, but using it as just a "search" to start applications and using Everything from voidtools to have all my other search needs on Windows met.

If I would switch so Linux I for me personally don't see any large enough benefits that convince me to invest that time, I much rather use the time to tinker with my servers that are running Linux.

But I'm really glad Linux is an alternative that only gets better with time, so once Windows gets too annoying for people like me there is a good alternative.

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