Dealing with games that just won't run on Linux (lemmy.zip)

submitted 5 months ago by RadDevon@lemmy.zip to c/linux_gaming@lemmy.ml

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How are people coping with games that just won't run on Linux (aside from leaving them behind)? Do you dual boot Windows? Virtualize? What's your strategy for this?

This will be extremely rare for me since I don't play a lot of competitive stuff, but I'd love to find a solution. I have a large library, and it's bound to happen from time to time.

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[-] Vincente@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Thanks for the long details, dude.

I just use Windows to run games. I need nothing else on Windows. So Tiny11 is good enough for me.

In terms of safety, I don’t store any information on Windows, so I never update it. It's just a gaming tool for me.

If my game accounts like Ubisoft, Steam, or GOG are leaked, it’s acceptable. They are just some email addresses and automatically generated passcodes, easy to update. It’s not important.

And the file systems used by Windows and Linux partitions aren’t mutually readable, so running games on Windows is hardly likely to affect the safety of the Linux partition. It’s perfect.

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