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by Black616Angel 1049 days ago
No, then they tell you about all the not-working AAA-games they boycott and why that somehow hinders them of using Linux, which they by the way already tried in 1995 and it didn't work out back then so why should it now?
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netbioserror 1049 days ago
If we're expecting consistency, the overlap between "AAA games boycott" and "Linux users" should be fairly significant. I'm doing my part, though I must say, the utterly whelming stock of third-person movie-games is making it a LOT easier.
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unethical_ban 1049 days ago
That's quite a fantasy you've cooked up there.

There is nothing demonic about happily gaming on the supported software platform. I have Windows because I play games built for Windows.

I have Fedora on my laptop.

Edit: oh yeah, a fresh KDE fedora install with encrypted volumes can't open the file manager without doing a one time cli to create a thumbnails directory. And I can't watch h26(4|5) videos in YouTube, supposedly unless I enable a 3p repo and install a package which gives me a dependency conflict.

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markbnj 1049 days ago
Yeah this is me. I've been using Windows since version 3, and was a windows dev for many years before focusing on linux and open source. Now Windows is basically for steam games, media consumption and displaying my work laptop using NoMachine (VNC on steroids, since windows is in control of my two Dell 27" displays and a nice keyboard and mouse).
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mschuster91 1049 days ago
Hasn't Steam Deck pretty much solved that problem by shoveling such insane amounts of money into Wine/Proton that it is able to pretty much run everything you want in terms of games?
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nerdjon 1049 days ago
Unfortunately very much not the case.

There are still a lot of issues playing games outside of Steam, and not every game is available in steam.

As someone else said there are some issues with anticheat (but some do work).

It is also not unheard of for a game to have an update and it break the proton compatibility. Meaning anyone who wants to play the game has to wait for proton to update with a fix.

But also, not every game on Steam works either.

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redserk 1049 days ago
Unfortunately there are a select few (though popular) games like Valorant that won't run because they require anti-cheat software with Windows kernel-mode drivers.

That said, it does support _a lot_.

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