Comment by specproc
9 days ago
I made the jump a few years ago and the experience has been largely great. Lots of learning, which has been half the fun, and no goddamn ads in my start menu.
Totally usable as a daily driver, provided you don't need Windows only software. The year of linux on the desktop was probably about 2020.
Steam's proton has made gaming on linux astoundingly good. The only thing that still needs improvement is mod support, as mod managers, game downgraders, bin patchers, some more involved mods involve little utilities written for windows that are not easily runnable on linux.
It is slowly improving though. The steam deck has moved things forward in leaps and bounds.
It seems like basically all the games I play aren't supported on this unfortunately and it feels like they never will be.
You do competitive games? Those have been so far Proton's biggest weakness, but that's usually less of a technical limitation and more of a company decision, which given enough pressure can be changed
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Force override it in the game settings. Works on 99% of games. Probably not multiplayer games with anti-cheat, because if you're not using a software chain fully validated by Microsoft then you're cheating.
Even then, a VM can get you really far.
If you need direct hardware access (like for gaming) then you can run a passthrough VM. You can do that even on a single video card system.
> You can do that even on a single video card system.
Like with consumer video cards? Tell me more.
With consumer video cards: https://github.com/martinopiaggi/Single-GPU-Passthrough-for-...
I don't believe you have to VBIOS patch anymore