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Dealing with games that just won't run on Linux
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this post was submitted on 10 Jun 2024
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A "ez" solution would be simply stay on Windows and leave Linux as a novelty. A somewhat complicated solution -- double booting (apparently Windows can be a privacy nightmare even while dual-booting). A quite hard one would be installing Linux and running Windows on a VM with GPU passthrough. The "are you bleeping kidding me?" approach would be buying another PC just to run Linux while leaving your "main" PC for Windows.
"Is there a sane approach for this?" -- yep, there is! Which is, buying a console and use it solely for gaming while leaving your main PC for daily browsing and everything else (i.e Linux).
To march into a thread asking about what they can do with their PC to play as many games as possible just to tell them to drop several hundred dollars on a console that will only be able to play games available on that console is a bold move
Tbf 80% of responses here are just "don't play the games that don't run" which is just as helpful.