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Comment by j4coh

6 months ago

I’m not OP but for me I end up having trouble with games and maintaining dual boot for it isn’t worth it. Most recently I was trying to install gamescope on PopOS LTS for retro gaming, but it was too old of a distribution for gamescopes dependencies, so I upgraded to Cosmic and it broke my software KVM. I use PopOS because it has great NVIDIA support and I’ve run into issues before with other distros.

At that point I switched back to windows but I’ll try again after a few months. I always keep trying.

I think if I didn’t play games I’d be fine with Linux. I hate Windows except that everything just works.

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stavros  6 months ago

With Steam, I haven't seen a game that doesn't work yet. I was just playing Clair Obscur yesterday, it worked great. I don't know about Gamescope, but I think you can run whatever Windows thing you want through Proton and it'll probably work well.

  • j4coh  6 months ago

    It’s been hit or miss for me. I mostly play strategy games. I often get weird game graphics, flickering and things like that that go away when I give up and reinstall windows.

  • dontlaugh  6 months ago

    If you play anything multiplayer (and especially anything competitive), it’ll break periodically or not work in the first place due to anti-cheat.