I heard it's starting to get better

With proton, this is less and less the case.

If only. Usually my Manjaro partition is chill, but the moment I step foot in Windows 11, it throws a pissy fit and breaks something it shouldn't even have access to.

If Linux just calls you a cheater, Microsoft sets you and everything you love on fire to make a point.

Meanwhile, my Windows partition back in 2017:

Everything I want to play runs on Linux and the couple that don't are because of EAC, which I can't be bothered with. I've completely cut Windows out of my life.

When you don't use windows for a few months, you'll feel like that on first boot. 'Oh, you haven't used this program on your desktop in a while (lists entire desktop). You want me to clean it up into a folder, because you don't use it anyway? I would also like to attend you to some urgent updates you need to install right now, and after that I have updates for your updates waiting, like 3 increments in a row with reboots each.' And of course, during the chore of updating, Edge appears and becomes your default browser. Take that you dirty cheater!

This is fake, where is the wrong system time? 😂

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Black text on a white background reads "Coming back to your linux partition after gaming on Windows."

Below the text is a photo of a house, taken from across the street. Over part of the front of the house is a white sheet hung like a banner with text spray-painted on it in black and red. The black text reads "WELCOME HOME" followed by one word in red reading "CHEATER".

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I switched to linux becouse I was tired of fighting with my OS, no way am I gonna dualboot with windows, that'll just make me have to fight with it more

Hey, not my fault Valve's vr support sucks on Linux.

My Windows partition is a vm that has its own 4060Ti and that I use via looking glass.

So it should behave or the host will just kill it off.

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In a dual boot system I like to call the Windows partition the "Destiny 2 Partition"

Nah Linux is too cool to care if you use other operating systems or not. It's Windows and Mac that react like this.

Windows-free since ‘93…

I started to get better 5 years ago. These days it's at least 60-70% where Windows is with respect to gaming. According to protondb.com, 78% of the top 100 steam games (and 75% of the top 1000) are directly playable on linux with no or very little tweaking required.

In my experience, gaming on linux has been better than on windows

Committed loyal Linux users here. I don't even have my Linux dress up to role play Windows via a virtual machine. We still get kinky tho 😜

I wish I could fully abandon my windows partition, but sadly my sim racing peripherals don't all work on Linux, and I bought those before I started thinking about switching.

I have a Quest 2 VR headset that I use for playing sim racing like Assetto Corsa, and flight sim on Xplane 11. To use that I have to open up Meta's Quest app, connect the headset to the computer over the WIFI, and it sorta functions like a monitor. In that I can view the whole Windows desktop environment on a virtual screen floating in VR space. When you open a VR game like Xplane you stop seeing the floating monitor, and it takes over the whole VR eye space for the duration you play it.

Is this type of thing also possible on Ubuntu? If so, I'll shitcan Windows ASAP.

On pop_os I had great success with proton until I had to wipe my os and reload. Before, most of my games worked well. Cyberpunk 2077 actually ran faster than on Windows. After the wipe, I literally cannot get a single game to run and I really don't feel like troubleshooting so I keep returning to windows. I hate it. And yes, I have an Nvidia card and have tried several driver versions

But PKHeX is a .exe! What am I supposed to do, figure out Wine? XD

Coming back to Linux at home after using Windows all day.

'But baby, they forced me to!'

Has anyone got Apex Legends running smoothly on Linux ?

I run xfce on debian 12 and when the game loads - it's not smooth enough for me to play.

My hardware is - i5 10400f , GTX 1660 Super, 16GB RAM

I really want to jump but dual boot. I can’t seem to get my games to work. I just don’t know how to get past the issues I see.

Back in 2010s, I had to open Windows to game. Now all games work out of the box with Linux, thanks to wine, vulkan and dxvk.

the games i play work perfectly, although i don't play multiplayer (other than Minecraft) so i guess thats why

Nowadays I felt dirty whenever I boot into Windoze, that's why get rid of it

Lol I laughed at this more than I should've.

That's a sweet Subaru Outback in front of that house. Ultra reliable. Miss my first car man. Was an older version of that. It's a shame they make their automatics with those shitty ass CVT's now. Also a shame I refuse to drive stick anymore but anyways... I don't know shit about programming.

It's not starting to, it already did.