Hello Lemmy,

Past 30 days I have installed Debian GNU/Linux and Windows 10 probably around 6-8 times. I am stuck not being able to decide what I want…

I dislike Windows 10 software management, having to install most things from the product website. I also don’t like my system installing bloatware automatically even after uninstalling it manually. Also window management, desktop customization and other elements I am custom to on Linux are lacking on Windows. But with simplewall and some other third party software I can tolerate Windows…

The reason I keep switching back and forth to Windows is are the video games. I know there is no real technical limitation for Linux distro with proprietary NVIDIA or AMD open-source driver installed which would prevent it from running modern games. However its quite a hassle getting games to run manually with Wine. Perhaps if I had the money I would be able to buy games from Steam and run them with Proton with minimal effort, but I can not do that at the moment. Also I do not like having to run Steam because I feel like that defeats the point of using free OS…

Anyways this post probably have no point to it, just rambling how I cannot make my mind regarding my OS. At the moment I am back on Linux but I have none games installed, i don’t know how long will I last with this state…

  • nutomicA
    8·
    3 years ago

    Did you try Lurtis? With that its quite easy to install and play most games.

    • ksynwa
      6·
      3 years ago

      Yeah I run pirated windows games with lutris a lot. It’s a little bit of a hassle but what are you gonna do. Lutris makes it very easy to manage wine versions and dxvk so it’s sweet.

      But I don’t play AAA games or online anticheat games so my expectations are a bit modest.

  • DessalinesA
    5·
    3 years ago

    I don’t game that much but iirc something like > 80% of steam games have been linux compatible ( as in no wine necessary ) for the last few years now. That was a big push when they were making steam boxes.

    • ksynwa
      2·
      3 years ago

      I don’t think the number is that high. But regardless Proton performs very well.

  • HMH
    41·
    3 years ago

    Sounds like you should consider dual booting :)

    • throwawayaccount2038OP
      3·
      3 years ago

      Probably I could configure dual boot somehow, however I don’t like the idea because I only have a small SSD for OS and hard drive for games and my PC has no more slots available. I wish I had dedicated drives for dual booting.

    • levity
      1·
      3 years ago

      Dual booting is for oldfolk

      Recently i hear that, using virtualbox + nvidia, you can do gpu pass-thru which should yield good gaming performance on reasonably modern hardware with hyper-v or similar

    • levity
      1·
      3 years ago

      Oops i probly shoulda read this before posting…

      Does kvm/qemu support gpu passthrough?