With proton, this is less and less the case.
Indeed, God bless proton
Basically, I tried proton and I'll never go back.
The overhead of windows is so heavy
I just made the jump again and I don't think I'll be going back to Windows. I'm getting improved performance in many of my favourite titles.
Very happy to be free of windows finally.
Was amazed at how good this is.
what is proton? what does it do?
Proton is a translation layer that uses Wine and other tricks to allow you to run Windows games on Linux. It's a Valve project that is making a ton of progress on compatibility. It's a huge part of the success of the Steam Deck.
A compatibility layer that lets you run native windows games on Linux through Steam. It's gotten better and better over the years and supports a majority of popular games now.
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.
Windows: "Looks like your bootloader was corrupted. I went ahead and reinstall it. No need to thank me, I was just doing my job. What's that? Grub? Nope, never heard of that guy."
Windows: "While updating I found out that some weird thing was set as first boot priority. I fixed that by setting it to myself. You are welcome!"
Yes, precisely! Haha
Garuda / win11 dualboot here.
When I go back to Garuda I find my display settings out of whack. Usually 800x640 resolution and desktop image back to default.
When I go back to win11 i find the timezone changed.
So dual boot is annoying for both in my experience
Amazing, thank you for the link.
Recently migrated to Endeavor and have Windows for Rainbow Six Siege (anticheat isn't setup to work with Proton). Was curious why the clock was always wrong.
Ok, at least that explains that. Thanks ^^ didn't have to switch that often so never bothered looking for a solution. So you spared me some searching, many thanks!
The clock thing is normal. Windows doesn't like UTC clocks with local adjustment for timezone like every sane system does it.
About the resolution issue. Did you deactivate fast boot in Windows. That's a bullshit feature decreasing boot time by not actually shutting off. It's some kind of hybrid standby. And it can lead to all kinds of problems, like for example not properly shutting down and releasing control over hardware. Which then leads to stuff like graphics or network cards not working properly in linux.
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.
I'm in the honeymoon stage but I've left win 11 behind earlier this week. Jump full into it I am loving pop_os... the tiling feature is a refreshing thing I didn't know I needed. I'm hooked to it already. Flatpak is something else new for me that I'm really enjoying the thought of. Really like all the seamlessness of the virtual desktops too. Pop calls them workspaces. I can send windows to another workspace. Keep selectef ones on all workspaces. I'm a devops that has been using wsl for anything I needed Linux locally for since it came out. Now that I know how to interact with Linux and my remaining Windows infrastructure at work (primarily Ad) I am full into it. The only game I've spun up on it so far was cyberpunk 2077 and it runs great on it. Got Plex going, virtual machines, docker/podman, the foss possibilities are awesome. Really enjoying freetube right now too.
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!
That just reminds me why I left in the first place. Bye!
Edge appears and becomes your default browser.
I have to use Edge at work and after a recent update it disabled the adblocking extension I used because "it might have been tampered with". It also offered a nice Repair button which...uninstalled the extension completely.
Edge is hostile to its users and should never ever be used.
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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.
Hey, not my fault Valve's vr support sucks on Linux.
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.
So you're saying Linux is a cuckold?
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
Actually. I recently started using Linux for the first time, I play a wide variety of games and my laptop I was trying it on, 1 game didn't work on Linux that (barely, buggy as hell and abandoned by devs) worked on Windows, but 2 other games that didn't run smooth enough on Windows to be playable, ran fine on Linux, all the others were about the same. Gaming experience has far far exceeded my expectations going in and expecting lots of headaches and issues.
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 ๐
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
What is there figure out? You install wine and double click the exe. It's not 2003 anymore.
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
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