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(The "Windows" slices of the pies are entirely made up by Baldur's Gate 3, which also runs well over Linux)

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago (3 children)

I would have played on Linux a bit more if I had enough space on my partition. Good thing I recently updated to 2 terabytes!

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

Why are you using Windows for BG3? I've been using Pop!_OS and it runs perfectly.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

The only game I play on Windows nowadays is Rocksmith 2014. That's because, due to the nature of the hardware, it is a bitch to setup even on Windows. Proton just isn't having any of it.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

Damn, mine also has a Windows slice this year because one of the games I was playing with my wife didn't run well enough on the Deck so we played it on her desktop. It runs on Linux, it's just that it was a bit on the heavy side for the deck so the fps were bad and her desktop was already plugged to the TV

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (11 children)

Linux wasn’t very good for gaming in 2016 when I first tried it. Then I tried again in 2023 and only switch back because I can’t get foundry to be easy on my arch based system, so like 3 hours every other week and for the least intensive thing I run.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

I wonder if that's why I like FreeBSD so much. I grew up with Windows, but someone in high school (old guy at the local community college I attended at the time) encouraged me to try FreeBSD and I really liked how different it was. I basically only use Linux now, but I still judge Linux by FreeBSD standards and I'd use FreeBSD if it had decent gaming support.

Or maybe it's because FreeBSD rocks.

[–] muhyb 4 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Is this from Steam Review? Because mine doesn't have that part.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I've been using Linux more and more recently but one thing that annoys me is my EndevourOS thinks the PC is not in when I'm playing games via a gamepad, therefore dims the screen and tries to sleep. How do I fix this? I'm honestly surprised I even need to.

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