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Very positively surprised by how seamless the switch from Windows was (feddit.org)
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Today, I switched the last of my Windows machines to Linux: my gaming PC. I've been using Linux on servers for many years but was a bit apprehensive for gaming.

Turns out it just... works. Just installed steam and turned proton on, have zero performance or other issues. I'm using Ubuntu 25.04 for the 6.14 kernels NT emulation performance tweaks. Aside from there not being a catalyst driver for it and so I can't undervolt my card everything is great.

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[-] LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I'll have to look into this, thanks for the suggestion. Been installing games with Lutris, then if they don't work I try all the proton versions there, then try non-steam games and still run into some that I just give up on. Having a mounted ISO on games that ask for a disk on startup I haven't figure out a way to get Lutris/Steam to recognize yet. Hopefully this will help.

I have found that games like The Sims, and Stardew Valley are the most consistent at working easily. Which is good, spouse enjoys those

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