My Nvidia GPU begs to be on this list.
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I palayed half life Alex on the Vive when it came out on popos. That said I tried to play it again about 18month later and it was broken; would launch but not load properly. Beat saber has worked for me very consistently, mods are hard to get going but it’s possible.
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Yeah, I have not really been liking the direction a lot if headset manufactures are going. I am never going to give meta money if I have a choice.
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Actually steam games work well. It’s non steam games and ones with kernel level anti cheat.
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Steam deck is proton using Linux. I have hundreds of games across epic, gog, and steam. They all work just fine except for online games with certain anti cheat shit like what fortnite or gtaV use.
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If you wanna check if a specific game is gonna work before you buy it, there’s protondb.com
Rivals works great on my Linux rig. Occasionally they update and it breaks the intro video, but the core game has been stable since day 1.
Epic generally works fine through Heroic launcher. Though I’ve had some occasional problems with Heroic and in those cases Lutris running the Windows Epic Game Store Launcher solved every time. Steam and Proton are still the easiest plug n play though.
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Heroic Game Launcher for Epic, GOG and Amazon games works great.
Steam’s primary platform is Linux wdym
I keep a windows LTSC install around purely for Escape from Tarkov. Everything else I play works great on Linux.
Wait, there’s something scrawled on the corner down here in crayon…
i’m lazy
A few months ago I installed windows on a spare SSD. It’s only purpose was for modded Skyrim.
A few weeks ago I accidentally formated that drive. It was only mildly annoying. Then I remembered I was basically done with that playthrough anyways. The SSD still remains unformated XD
“Accidentally formatted that drive”
Someone is playing with fire.
Yep, that’s me. Wasn’t 100% sober at the time. Self inflicted I admit. Not the first time, won’t be the last XD
Fusion 360
Cubase
Tax perp software was the only thing I needed it for in the last year. I haven’t converted my gaming PC to Linux yet, but I don’t anticipate an issue.
This ethereal concept titled “Work” is pointing a pistol towards me.
But yeah. Windows is trash. I’m going to go submit resumes and buy lottery tickets.
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Microsoft software and NinjaRMM screen sharing. Ninja and MS SQL management tools are the biggest blockers since the web versions of M365 are adequate.
Yup. Trying to get various work critical specific pieces of software working on Linux is just not a reasonable concept. Dual boot is the only option.
Are you guys using your own computers to work? I connect vpn and then remote desktop.
I can’t escape windows at work because my company uses all windows.
My company is your standard Dell + M365 outfit, but we on the dev team can install linux because our product is an embedded linux system. It is so damn nice.
It is so tempting to wipe my Windows partition and add that space to my home directory. It just feels like there must be SOME reason they wouldn’t want me to. I don’t ever actually use it. I will occasionally fire up a windows VM to check the windows version of one of our build artifacts.
Meanwhile, I am forced to develop embedded Linux stuff using WSL
Wsl is a piece of joke, like seriously why. If you want an actual linux, install it on bare metal. If you want to try out, then virtualbox. If you need a good integration with the system with native performance, Termux. WSL works with hyperv which is hard to set up and breaks all the time, plus you are forced to use microsoft’s kernel which is riddled with who knows what. Plus wsl consumes insane amount of space. I don’t think we really need this to windows, it was just a desperate attempt from microsoft to get sympathy from Linux users, but they didn’t convice me with this trashpile
Why WSL? Because I’d be setting up a Linux VM anyway.
Not an option in my line of work unfortunately
I’m probably going to invest in some hardware to get powerful enough VMs.
There’s plenty of software that is windows exclusive and has little to no Linux compatibility, although it is shit praxis, it is an argument to use windows
I’m too scared of fucking up the set up by accident and also terminals are scary to me 😔
For me it’s Nvidia tech, VR, and HDR, even if they’re technically supported, they’re much more of a hassle than on Windows.
I have a decent list of software I need it for unfortunately so I’m keeping my best PC on Windows, but I have four PCs in the house. I’ve been running Linux on one of them for a couple years but the other two will be moved over by Windows 10 EOL.
Funnily enough, I’ve seen opinions that Windows has awful HDR handling and Plasma is much better, but I don’t have a proper HDR display to check. I’ve also had some success with VR, though I haven’t played much on Linux. That said, support from software for those things for Linux is still widely lacking, so it’s not much consolation.
The thing with Windows is that it’s very much set and forget with HDR. I don’t bother with auto HDR since it isn’t great, but I just enable HDR, and have RTX HDR handle non-HDR games. I don’t really need to touch anything else or launch games in a specific way to get it working. I’ve tried VR with Linux but I’ve been spoiled by the accessibility of VD.
On most recent Plasma (KDE) I can confirm HDR also just works (tested on AMD). I do miss a contrast slider though, SDR titles seem a little bit bright.
Of course Nvidia didn’t port “RTX HDR” yet. They’re preoccupied fixing their driver mess by building a completely new one (NVK), so for the foreseeable future it’s still better to run AMD with Linux.
CAD
Literally just steam VR in home streaming is all I need to fully dump windows.
WiVRn / ALVR?
Fusion 360 for me. Freecads incredibly user unfriendly, openscad is missing functionality and performance, and blender isn’t great for engineering modeling
There are dozens of us. Surely someone can figure out how to port F360 to Linux, or make a functional clone
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I’ve been thinking about it, but it is a crap ton of work
Valorante :(
