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Close to switching to a Linux distro full time. (beehaw.org)

submitted 1 year ago by sad_distro@beehaw.org to c/operating_systems@beehaw.org

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With the advances in gaming on Linux in recent years, it is so tempting to switch full time. I would absolutely love to, but I am a Game Pass Ultimate subscriber and it is where I play a lot of my games on PC. I know you can use the cloud version, but I cannot stomach streaming games in their current state, so it is a no go. A large portion of my Steam library is compatible, but anytime I have done an install I end up giving in and going back to Windows for games.

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[–] HrBingR@beehaw.org 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (12 children)

So one thing that might be worth looking into is virtual machines.

Currently on my desktop I run a variant of Arch (Endeavor I think) where I primarily do my gaming , but for any highly incompatible games, or Game Pass games, I have a virtual machine running Windows that uses pass-through to pass my graphics card through to the virtual machine for games I can't play on Linux. I also use CPU pinning to 'pin' 10 of my 12 CPU cores to the virtual machine to reduce potential overhead.

Works really well, might be an option for you, although it's not super easy to setup. I've tried passthrough on PopOS as well before, but it wasn't as performant, and Arch Wiki provides a ridiculous amount of super useful guides for doing just about anything, including setting this up.

Edit: Otherwise in terms of daily driver, I love Fedora, and likely won't move away anytime soon on my laptop.

[–] sad_distro@beehaw.org 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Thank you. I have some experience with using virtual machines, but only for running old DOS/Windows 95-era software lol

[–] HrBingR@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Understandable, but virtual machines can be highly versatile! When I boot up my VM it's as though I'm literally just running Windows as normal, and when I shut down the VM I'm back to Linux. I much prefer it to dual booting, though dual booting is 100% easier.

If you ever decide to look into it, here's the Arch guide I was referencing: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/PCI_passthrough_via_OVMF

[–] sad_distro@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago

Thank you! I will poke around and explore this.

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