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.
If rainbow 6 ever gets Linux support, I think I can fully uninstall windows. Unfortunately if I need to have windows installed for something, I might as well compartmentalize Linux for productivity, and windows for gaming
This is understandable, I still have a Win10 install on a separate disk in case I want to run VR on my Oculus CV1. Otherwise it’s all Linux babyyyy
I’ve been working on a NixOS setup over the past few days and I just got BG3 to run a couple of hours ago. I had to switch from the Mesa driver to the AMD one, I can’t login to the launcher (CORS issue lmao), and it sometimes doesn’t launch at all. It’s still a bit of a WIP, but it did seem to run at least as well as it did on Windows when it worked. I’m hoping that having an ephemeral, config-based setup will save me a lot of this trouble in the future.
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 I could multibox.
turns out a compatibility layer takes up system resources. who knew.
edit: also fuck minimize on focus loss, I’m not even sorry for my Windows partition while that’s a thing.
I’ve recently installed Linux. Have a hdd full with steam games (for windows) Is there any way to get that to work without needing to format the drive and install the games again? Looked a bit at it but every article seems to suggest formating the drive to get it to work with proton.
It’s technically possible but not recommended as the NTFS format has some quirks under Linux. Give yourself the best chance at everything working and do full reinstalls after a format.
“Has some quirks” is putting it mildly. I had a couple of drives that I thought were dead because I kept getting errors. I reformatted them to ext4 and they were fine.
It’s just a even more evil cheating if still do it
I think the real gamechanger was Vulkan. OpenGL was just not suited for this.
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
at this point I’m just going to have my hard drives externally and just have windows on one and Linux on the other and depending on which one I want to boot I connect it and disconnect the other
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.
Thought I had but I double checked and it turns out to be enabled. Turned it off, we’ll see if that helps, thanks.
Haha, I forgot it also broke the clock. But as others explained, it’s fixable.
Lol, I killed manjaro twice 😂 it’s just too easy for Noobs to enable AUR
In my case, I got a little too confident and messed around with drivers to get stable situation to work. Oops.
But in the times windows kills something… aside from messing with my boot loader (always install windows first, then Linux), it also managed to break my wifi drivers to the point that it would blue screen my windows AND prevent Manjaro from booting (and once fixed, not connect to Internet via Wi-Fi).
Using AUR with Manjaro is dangerous cause of their stupid and useless 2 weeks rule. I would use EndevourOS or just not using the AUR
Meanwhile, my Windows partition back in 2017:
Same, right after Windows 10 nuked my network drivers via any automated update that happened while I wasn’t home
I never sullied my computer with Windows 10. The last version of Windows I used was 7, and I ditched it for good when Microsoft started trying to backport 10’s malware (euphemized as “telemetry”) to it.
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.
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Ubisoft sucks. I’m still mad that they to this day refuse to add Linux compatibility to The Crew 2 despite BattlEye supporting Linux. It’s basically the only game I have that I can’t run on Linux due to an anti-cheat, and I really miss playing it since I like open-world racing games… Their launcher also doesn’t run on Wine last time I tried, either. (I hope that at least changed since then?)
You know, here’s the funny thing about Ghost Recon Wildlands.
Ubisoft and Riot really need to have a talk, because the Valorant anticheat fucks with the Ubisoft anticheat. In the end, I couldn’t even run Wildlands on Windows until I uninstalled Valorant and its anticheat. It’s too bad that such a fun co-op game is stuck behind some of the most obnoxious “protection” on the market.
Heck several games the do use EAC work now. Valve flexed some muscle and got compatibility with Proton pushed through.
This is fake, where is the wrong system time? 😂
timedatectl set-local-rtc 1
Windows is in the wrong, not Linux.
reg.exe add HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\TimeZoneInformation /v RealTimeIsUniversal /t REG_DWORD /d 1 /f
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.
It is not hostile it is abusively helpful! It will force you into the best experience of the web, just sit still you silly goose!
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But hey, he opened a new tab for you (What’s new in version xxx; Thanks for using firefox…) so you can go looking right away! 😂
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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.
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I have a dualboot because I had something to finish that couldn’t be realistically moved to Linux because I put the required files all over the Windows system instead of 1 easily movable folder. Anyway, I am lazy to finish that. It’s been 2 years since I booted up that Windows.
I left due to not being able to open 2 settings menus. I am not putting up with that bullshit.
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”
I call mine the starcitizen partition
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Some games with intrusive DRM or anticheat. Also VR is pretty bad
I bet that wife wishes she has anti-cheat.
denuvo ricochet
I’ve had issues with vr games, mostly playable, but way less consistent and I’ve gotten motion sick when I haven’t on windows. Though I last tried a year or so ago, so it could have improved
I’m very proud to announce that 98% of my steam titles play perfect on my gaming Linux setup. I main Pop!_os and I love it so much.
Tarkov runs perfect but its 3rd party anti cheat doesn’t support Linux so it’s not playable online.
Certain games from the Xbox Microsoft store like halo wars 2 cannot run on Linux, PC or Xbox only. Very few exceptions. Couldn’t he happier. I highly recommend it
Same here. Ended up deleting my windows partition altogether after a few months.
Games that calculate a lot of pathfinding or similar in the GPU will end in a CPU-melting stutter fairly soon when run on Vulcan.
Satisfactory is a good example or this: It quickly becomes unplayable with any halfway complex setup.
If you’ve got a Linux native version, then you’re fine.
Huh, I haven’t had any issues with satisfactory
Windows-free since ‘93…
Has a nice ring to it… … ‘23 be free. It’s never too late.
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.
Actually except for one eac game (Hunt) I don’t have to switch anymore.
Stellaris, Zomboid, Splitgate, …
Though getting the best “quality” for some of the games was challenging (struggling with differing monitor Hz on X11 and nvidia)
Hunt is why I’m still rocking windows too 😭
Well that, and some work stuff that doesn’t work on Linux, bleh
Hunt runs on Linux! I play it on Linux with my Windows friends. Some people even see improved framerates, lol. They flipped the “enable EAC for Linux” switch on steam earlier in the year.
I don’t know about you, but while I think its an amazing game (art, idea), the current state is not. It just feels like crytek is milking it and some big upgrade to the engine is long overdue.
So, I don’t really have to switch too often, only if we get full lobby with friends.
