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As long as 10 is supported, I’m not updating. At least I’m not hammered with ads like on 11.
If 10 is sunset, I’ll probably switch back to Linux. I rarely game on my laptop anyway.
Out of like 1000 games I can play about 997 on linux, you’ll probably be fine on linux even gaming now
I don’t understand Linux, but gaming on my steam deck is amazing and occasionally runs games better than my much more powerful windows computer.
Certain things do run better on Linux. So if a game heavily relies on one of those things, it’ll run better. But there’s still a lot of game engine stuff that is experimental or just plain non-functional on Linux, so the games that utilize those are basically unplayable.
Until fairly recently, things like Ray tracing and DLSS were windows-only, because they almost universally used DirectX, which is a windows API.
Microsoft already announced Windows 10 will no longer be supported in Oct 2025
If you game via Steam, there’s a good chance you can use their Proton layer to play Windows games on Linux.
Ive played wow on linux without an issue as well
Lutris is great!
Installation was a bit tricky but following the guide… easy peasy.
My gaming rig is linux and it’s only sorta inconvenient
How dumb can a person be and still use Linux for gaming? I’m open to switching from Windows but am only marginally technical so I don’t wanna bite off more than I can chew
These days it’s more “which games don’t work on linux?” Rather than “which games work on linux?”
It’s even simpler then that.
It’s which games use EAC or BattleEYE and have dog shit devs that won’t just turn on proton support. It’s seriously just this at this point. I feel like every time I go looking though protonDB a majority of the garbage rated games are anticheat/drm related problems.
Fucking fromsoft games use EAC and they have worked out of the box day 1 on Linux.
Yeah I managed to solve that for some games by installing the proton EAC plugin. Squad works for instance.
But games introducing kernel-level DRM I wouldn’t install on my Windows machine anyway. I guess the person I replied to potentially doesn’t know how to deploy a new operating system. So they might not care about all that anywho.
But calling everyone else dumb because they don’t know how to do something is ridiculous.
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I wished more people phrased it this way, or acknowledged that some peoples’ tastes in games aren’t going to change to fit a new platform.
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Thanks for dumbing it down for me. I just built a computer so I’m not a complete bust on knowing or figuring this stuff out, but I don’t want an OS where customizing and making sense of it becomes a second job, you know? I’m just a blue collar guy that likes gaming. Think it’s worth getting another hard drive and having a dual boot just so I could practice with Linux before going all in? Or is that a stupid idea because I don’t know what I’m talking about?
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I really appreciate you making it sound so much more manageable than my first impression led me to believe. You’ve got me looking forward to trying Linux rather than just being full of trepidation about it since programming and the technical stuff isn’t my wheelhouse, so thanks for that!
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Depends on the distro, times have really changed in the last 5 years and even more since the steam deck was released. I distro hop a lot and my recommendation for a newbie would be pop os! Or Ubuntu. I was really impressed with pop, everything just worked right on install. Same with Ubuntu for the most part. Any guide for the current release of Ubuntu will work on pop os.
I’ve been using EndeavorOS recently and enjoyed it but I wouldn’t recommend it to someone new to linux. It’s not as hard to use as other distros but might be a bit much for a newcomer.
It’s not nearly as hard as it seems, but you do have to be willing to search around Google for a bit and things might take a few tries to get working. Steam has an option in their compatibility settings to run windows games through Proton that has worked well for me, but I only really play smaller single player games. Can’t vouch for how well it works for multi-player stuff. Also I’m using Manjaro (based on Arch Linux) not sure if it works the same for all distributions.
I have nearly 1000 games on steam the only ones that don’t work on proton with zero fiddling at this point are either EAC/BattleEYE games that don’t support proton. Or old games from the early 00s with drm that also don’t really work on windows anymore either.
I am also on Manjaro.
Dunno if he’s dumb but you’re dumb based on your dumb comment.
You misread the comment
Yeah, the phrasing didn’t do it any favors.
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It is a healthy way to look at it, since by the time 10 isn’t supported, 11 will be relatively bug free.