I’ve been playing with computers, building them and troubleshooting issues on them since we first had a 386, thanks for your concerns with my abilities.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Im sorry you’re bad at computers.
I’ve been playing with computers, building them and troubleshooting issues on them since we first had a 386, thanks for your concerns with my abilities.
Me too and Linux is fucking easy. Again, sorry you’re dumb. Maybe you shouldn’t use a computer if it’s still not sinking in after all. those. years.
People like you are the reason linux will never have a double digit percent install base.
I’m a professional engineer who contributes to FOSS projects all the time. I bet I put more into Linux than you ever will in your whole life.
Cool. Has nothing to do with my point.
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I don’t miss the point entirely. I also don’t shit on people not knowing what I know about things I have a ton of experience in. Cunt.
Maybe you shouldn’t use social media if you feel the need to be mean to people who don’t agree with you, yet here you are 🤷
Probably just a gamer. My cycle is normally:
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.
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You cared enough to comment though.
Good for you.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
How about just skipping that game?