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Y'all, for real, I was on Windows for gaming. Gaming on Linux really does seem to "just work" now. I'm using CachyOS. It just works. The only tweak I had to do was to tell Helldivers 2 to use the vanilla version of Proton instead of Cachy's version. So literally if I was on a more traditional distribution I'd have to do less.
Yep. Used to be cautious about it working, having to check protondb before buying/installing/playing and what have you..
but I havent done that in a year.
I just install a game, even a new game, and it just works. No thought, no concern,no issues.. OS related, that is, it obviously doesnt make buggy games not buggy, so buggy games are still buggy, but thats the games fault, and you'd run into that regardless of the OS.. Like Cities Skylines 2 bad performance, or modded minecraft crashing due to mod things.
Want to be specific so someone doesnt follow my post with a predictable "WELL I PLAYED insert known buggy game AND IT STILL CRASHED AND I DIDNT GET A BLOWJOB FROM BETTY WHITES GHOST OR ANYTHING, YOU LIAR!"
My aunt bought some Wal-Mart $200 Lenovo like 8 years ago. It ran Windows 10 like I run a mile...eventually. I put what upgrades into it I could (added some RAM and an SSD) and threw Linux Mint on it, perfectly usable.
Last week: "Hey, can my Linux computer run The Sims? They just released a bundle with Sims 1 and 2." I got to looking at it, "no info" on steam deck compatibility, system requirements require a newer GPU than her laptop, like they call out Intel HD 620 and she's got Intel HD 520.
Proton will almost certainly run it, but that machine's iGPU won't. I got to blame the hardware and not Linux!
I was absolutely amazed that the new Overwatch game (Marvel Rivals) ran out of the box with GloriousEggroll v23. Kind of a wild sentence.
This year totally is the year of Linux, guys!
Trust me!
Don't need it to be the year of the Linux desktop for me to switch to use it myself.
There's still the odd game that's somehow broken in WINE that isn't broken by anticheat or DRM, but by just being crusty code, but those edge cases will do fine in a Windows VM /w a spare GPU being passed through to it.
Anything that uses kernel anticheat, so basically any modern multiplayer title, is platform-locked into a baremetal Windows install, but since I have no interest whatsoever in modern multiplayer titles and thus no interest in anything with a kernel anticheat, I can do just fine virtualizing Windows in that scenario while using a Linux host for everything else.
(which, Soulbringer, one of my previous edge-case titles, works great in Proton /w dxwrapper+DXVK, but Civ3's audio is still broken in Proton even if C3X fixes the graphics, so that's still being ran in a Windows VM, which I currently have Win11 LTSC running in a VM /w my Vega 56 being passed through to it for just that very purpose, while I'm using an RX 6600 for my host card)
As for apps like Maya, Blender is actually competitive with it nowadays.
As an addendum relating to modern multiplayer titles, those are the few titles where it would make more sense to play them on console instead of PC anyways since the way in which they're locked down goes against PC's main selling point: the fact that you actually own your system to a degree where the consoles are effectively locked into the PS, Xbox, or Nintendo walled garden.
I've read that modding many games is a total bitch-and-a-half on Linux, too. No idea if that's true or not, but still. I'm a sicker for fuckin' with games and if stuff breaks on Linux that works fine on windows, that's a problem.
That depends, the Fallout and Elder Scrolls games are easily modded regardless of OS, and I've had good luck with HedgeModManager too for Sonic Generations, and even for Civ3, C3X fixes the black map bug however I haven't found a good fix for the crackling and popping audio.
some days ago switched to void linux. It's awesome
What made you choose Void?
I wanted to try something new and different than debian, ubuntu or fedora, but at the same time do not try something like arch. A few days ago at work I've mounted a VM with void linux and start reading its handbook , and wow, the OS is very intuitive, if you combine its practicity along fish you got a very handy system, but again, I tried because I wanted to try something different, I really didn't try to satisfy a need. By the time, I should be able to tell if has the speed and performance to carry a selfhosted server; yesterday I started to migrate everything to void in my Lenovo Think Centre mini.
I tried Mac os and I thought it was cool until I got docker and it made me make an account. It also in order to change things in the desktop environment you had to pay for apps and I'm cheap. Windows is annoying to me after being on Linux for so long even if they have wsl. My computer broke and I ended up needing Linux to make an old MacBook we had work again is the only reason I switched originally. Developing software I appreciate that the ide and terminal are super convenient to use. Normal people for Linux.... Nope. Getting my Bluetooth to work was a 3 hour journey. Normal people use their PC that much in a month where as I use mine 12 hours+ a day.
The better time is always yesterday
Edit: A little bit of a cathartic rant to people who will understand lol. I love you all. <3
Echo chamber or not, I'm happy to finally be back on Lemmy and see some damn community positivity about Linux for a change. It isn't perfect but it's beautiful and it's worth it and it's ours.
It's a resistance instrument over ever-entitled, creeping corporate control over our lives, it's not "better Windows", it's just better.
I just got super bummed out reading a bunch of those bizarre "Normal people can't be bothered and it doesn't instantly just work with a single button push so it's too complicated and everyone will hate it forever." Tirades... You know the ones...
The kicker... That was after I stumbled from an unrelated link into /r/linux !!, when someone was asking how to help people not be "so scared" to try Linux.
Huge, angry posts about how it can't stand up to proprietary capital-ware, and asking users to click a button or type a word "is just too much." It's freaking sad.
I dunno if the reddit brigading just got super bad or they're all self-loathing over there. But it was weird. And bitter.
I'm happy with our operating-system punk movement, where we invite artists and gamers and coders and family members to learn something and have their computing experience back, since we can't go back to the 00's when computing was an activity and the Internet was a place.
The servile corporate wageslaves who disregard their rights and throw a fit whenever they need to troubleshoot something, can keep their bloated service-appliances and their self righteous corpo-simp attitudes, whilst loudly announcing "tHe DeSkToP iS dYiNg" and "aNdRoiD iS LiNuX." They can keep it.
Meanwhile we welcome the curious, and the seeking, and those wanting something more.
I don't care if we'll never get "critical mass adoption." Part of me hopes I never see Linux getting talked about in mainstream TV news or something, because that's when the grifters will descend like vultures and corporations and states will be wanting a piece of it.
But hey I'll gladly take the time to help someone discover it and enjoy it as much as possible so it can be even greater than it is today. I'll gladly release my work to be Linux compatible and donate to software that changes my life for the better every day.
I'll gladly troubleshoot a little, and be patient, and donate when I can, and report bugs, and share what I've learned. Because we're in this community together, and Open Source belongs to all of us, and you're doing a great job.
I'm more of a proponent for running some Linux distro for my main OS and then virtualizing Windows if desired for things that are broken in WINE/Proton somehow but work fine in Windows, at this point.
I don't trust Windows enough to run it baremetal in a dual-boot anymore though, virtualization at least isolates it from the host where it counts, where in a dual-boot, even if it generally doesn't happen, there's still the looming threat of Windows screwing up the Linux install somehow, where that isn't a problem when virtualizing since, as I said, it's isolated where it counts, even if paravirtualization is a thing for storage drivers and networking and the like, and hardware passthrough is a thing for things like GPUs.
I've been moving over a few machines but some software isn't easy to just switch. I have at least a dozen more to move, and a few machines I'm going to keep on Windows for now.
have you tried bottles? I've great luck with using it for windows only software and it's way more user friendly than wine by itself.
You could dual boot, or virtualize a few machines.
If there's any new Lemmy users here, coming from Reddit (feel like I'm opening a seance), and if you're wondering what else you might decide to change during this era of change -
Try Linux! It's easy now, and frankly just better :)
I came 1.5 years ago when reddit fucked up big. Read about Linux here a lot, but not engaged much with it. But since I can't make the switch to Windows 11 I tryed out Linux Mint two weeks ago. Haven't booted into Windows since then, but for one game i have to start using a mod Manager and that won't run in Linux. Every other game I play, even with mods, works just fine. It's fucking cool. And it's so damn nice that I can decide exactly how it looks and feels. So, thanks for that Lemmy.
I switched a few years ago. I've been using windows for over 30 years. They changed a bunch of random shit I had used in the past. I figured I'd give it a shot.
I never went back. I'm not a coder. I don't even like tech very much. I've been really happy with Ubuntu for years.
I wanted something that just worked. It has.