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Gaming on Linux hasn't been great so far... | JayzTwoCents [27:59] (www.youtube.com)
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Follow-up video to https://lemmy.world/post/32690521

Spoiler alert: the main reason he says the experience "hasn't been great" is because shortly before posting the video his Linux install mysteriously broke and he had no idea why. Therefore, he recommended dual-booting Windows just in case.

Cue sea of comments explaining that the reason for the error he was getting was that Windows screwed up his bootloader (i.e. the problem was caused by dual-booting to begin with, LOL).

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[-] potustheplant@feddit.nl 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

You can just have a thumbdrive with another linux distro and live boot with that. There really isn't a need to have another os permanently installed.

[-] MudMan@fedia.io 1 points 1 week ago

The reason he's actually giving to keep Windows is software compatibility for multiplayer games and other unsupported things. Using it as a fallback is just another reason he adds at the end when troubleshooting his broken bootloader.

He's not wrong about any of it, although for recovery you'll likely have a harder time accessing the Linux FS from Windows than the other way around, so having a recovery Linux on an external drive is good advice regardless.

[-] Malix@sopuli.xyz 0 points 2 weeks ago

Depends. I'm still keeping win10 (but haven't booted into it in months), just in case when on a game night something refuses to work on linux and I can just boot to windows and game with my friends. I'm not going to start troubleshooting then and there, doubly because in general alcohol is involved during those friday night gaming sessions.

The day for repurposing those partitions is coming closer though.

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