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…
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Did you try Lurtis? With that its quite easy to install and play most games.
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.
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.
I don’t think the number is that high. But regardless Proton performs very well.
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Sounds like you should consider dual booting :)
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.
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Just save money and get a bigger drive. This is a non problem.
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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
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Also I do not like having to run Steam because I feel like that defeats the point of using free OS…
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Are you RMS levels of staunch who lives and sleeps by FLOSS principles? If no, Steam is just fine. If you started using Linux for ideological and not functional reasons, maybe Linux is not your thing.
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Oops i probly shoulda read this before posting…
Does kvm/qemu support gpu passthrough?
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