Stick with windows or Dual boot. Linux sucks for games. Linuxers can clap back at this all they want, but I am a 100%, 20+ yr linux every day driver veteran and I am 10000% pro linux.
But I'm also honest. It's not good for gaming. SteamOS is an option for gaming but I couldn't get it to properly install on my equipment. Steamdeck obviously is going to work, but their system is not really supercompatible and it doesn't play well with others.
Steam the app on the linux desktop is pretty flawless EXCEPT for proton, which is well oversold. Steam proton works about as well as WINE (linux people will snerk at this).
NVIDIA support on linux is already there with proprietary linux video drivers you install after you install the OS. THAT SAID, nVidia just announced their drivers are going Open Source like AMD video drivers already are, and it's a matter of time that NVIDIA will dominate linux when that finally comes. So that's something to look forward to.
So there's no problem with the drivers. The problem is with the individual games. They have a lot of windows DLLs that the developers don't want to port over to Linux...that is why there is steam proton, to act as a kind of virtual machine to emulate those windows components that the games need. The problem is it's clunky and bad, and worst of all it just flat out doesn't often work.
So there's no problem with the drivers. The problem is with the individual games. They have a lot of windows DLLs that the developers don't want to port over to Linux...that is why there is steam proton, to act as a kind of virtual machine to emulate those windows components that the games need. The problem is it's clunky and bad, and worst of all it just flat out doesn't often work.
Proton. which is a fork of wine, is a compatibility layer, it mimics a windows system and translates callbacks to linux, it's nowhere near a virtual machine or emulator...
Also I disagree with your assertion that it "flat out doesn't work", how long ago did you try it? every single thing I tried ran, and I've been running Linux exclusively for at least 3 years now, not only on steam with proton, but also using Lutris with wineGE, it just works...
I ran games great when I had an nvindia card, and I run them well now with a crappy integrated intel GPU (my nvidia one crapped out), well, at least the games I can run heh
Now, obviously, games made for windows will still run better on windows, there's no question about that, the translating of callbacks, like from directx to vulkan for instance, will have a bit of an overhead, and you will lose some performance
But, as far as I'm concerned, that's absolutely worth it, if it means ditching that piece of filth from Gates....
If more people start using linux, taking advantage of the compatibility layer to run games, more developers will have an incentive to make native builds for linux, and less and less we will need such compatibility layers, and less of a monopoly MS will have...
The longer people keep saying "jUSt dUal BOOt", the longer this will take....
Stick with windows or Dual boot. Linux sucks for games. Linuxers can clap back at this all they want, but I am a 100%, 20+ yr linux every day driver veteran and I am 10000% pro linux.
But I'm also honest. It's not good for gaming. SteamOS is an option for gaming but I couldn't get it to properly install on my equipment. Steamdeck obviously is going to work, but their system is not really supercompatible and it doesn't play well with others.
Steam the app on the linux desktop is pretty flawless EXCEPT for proton, which is well oversold. Steam proton works about as well as WINE (linux people will snerk at this).
NVIDIA support on linux is already there with proprietary linux video drivers you install after you install the OS. THAT SAID, nVidia just announced their drivers are going Open Source like AMD video drivers already are, and it's a matter of time that NVIDIA will dominate linux when that finally comes. So that's something to look forward to.
So there's no problem with the drivers. The problem is with the individual games. They have a lot of windows DLLs that the developers don't want to port over to Linux...that is why there is steam proton, to act as a kind of virtual machine to emulate those windows components that the games need. The problem is it's clunky and bad, and worst of all it just flat out doesn't often work.
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Whatever he said about gaming is shitty advice imo...
Proton. which is a fork of wine, is a compatibility layer, it mimics a windows system and translates callbacks to linux, it's nowhere near a virtual machine or emulator...
Also I disagree with your assertion that it "flat out doesn't work", how long ago did you try it? every single thing I tried ran, and I've been running Linux exclusively for at least 3 years now, not only on steam with proton, but also using Lutris with wineGE, it just works...
I ran games great when I had an nvindia card, and I run them well now with a crappy integrated intel GPU (my nvidia one crapped out), well, at least the games I can run heh
Now, obviously, games made for windows will still run better on windows, there's no question about that, the translating of callbacks, like from directx to vulkan for instance, will have a bit of an overhead, and you will lose some performance
But, as far as I'm concerned, that's absolutely worth it, if it means ditching that piece of filth from Gates....
If more people start using linux, taking advantage of the compatibility layer to run games, more developers will have an incentive to make native builds for linux, and less and less we will need such compatibility layers, and less of a monopoly MS will have...
The longer people keep saying "jUSt dUal BOOt", the longer this will take....