Call me when I can play ALL the video games I want to play on Linux and I’ll happily ditch windows.
Hard mode: you aren’t allowed to mention Proton or tell me to abandon video games I like because “Well kernal anticheat is bad and was invented by satan” (it is, I know, I still want to play fortnite occasionally or whatever).
Thanks for making me realise why I never had the legendary “Windows broke dual boot” issues that everyone says are so common. I always used separate drives!
As a Linux-only person I can totally acknowledge the need for Windows if you want to be a regular player of specific popular games. And maybe VR. I haven’t tried it recently after playing a ton of VR a few years ago.
But I can also point out the fact that I probably already own more games than I will ever finish in my adult life, and just in case I do there are also more games released every year that work on Linux that I could ever play. So if a game will not work in Linux even with proton and whatnot, my life is not negatively affected by that game not existing in my world. (I’ll admit I probably didn’t always think this way, but for a long time I still ran Windows and didn’t think about it either way)
I find that ideal. I strip Windows down to the bone, turn off defender realtime and some other security measures (which I don’t worry about since Windows can’t read my Linux partitions), and it makes games fly.
And use Linux for basically anything else.
No messing around with stuff that doesn’t want to work on either OS. And Linux is so much easier/faster for so many things (like anything GPU compute, or dealing with media, or Java games like Minecraft/Starsector).
Call me when I can play ALL the video games I want to play on Linux and I’ll happily ditch windows.
Hard mode: you aren’t allowed to mention Proton or tell me to abandon video games I like because “Well kernal anticheat is bad and was invented by satan” (it is, I know, I still want to play fortnite occasionally or whatever).
Dual boot would like to enter the chat
Dual boot is great until a random windows update borks it :/
It can only do so if both OS are on the same drive.
It is recommended to use two physical drives: one for Windows, one for Linux.
Never failed me in years.
Thanks for making me realise why I never had the legendary “Windows broke dual boot” issues that everyone says are so common. I always used separate drives!
As well as Lutris and Heroic Games Launcher
While great overall, these are just launchers/wrappers for Wine/Proton with built-in library
They will not help launch something that can’t be run with Proton, and for hard mode, they won’t add native support.
So, nice, but not what OP is looking for
As a Linux-only person I can totally acknowledge the need for Windows if you want to be a regular player of specific popular games. And maybe VR. I haven’t tried it recently after playing a ton of VR a few years ago.
But I can also point out the fact that I probably already own more games than I will ever finish in my adult life, and just in case I do there are also more games released every year that work on Linux that I could ever play. So if a game will not work in Linux even with proton and whatnot, my life is not negatively affected by that game not existing in my world. (I’ll admit I probably didn’t always think this way, but for a long time I still ran Windows and didn’t think about it either way)
ring ring: This is your upcoming Steam Deck purchase calling from the near future.
:)
You can dual boot.
I find that ideal. I strip Windows down to the bone, turn off defender realtime and some other security measures (which I don’t worry about since Windows can’t read my Linux partitions), and it makes games fly.
And use Linux for basically anything else.
No messing around with stuff that doesn’t want to work on either OS. And Linux is so much easier/faster for so many things (like anything GPU compute, or dealing with media, or Java games like Minecraft/Starsector).