Comment by rpodraza
3 months ago
I would honestly do so, but if I want to run games and music production stuff (like Cubase) I'm pretty much forced to be on Windows.
3 months ago
I would honestly do so, but if I want to run games and music production stuff (like Cubase) I'm pretty much forced to be on Windows.
I don’t play much AAA stuff, but Steam+Proton has gotten very good; I almost never even bother checking compatibility anymore.
I don’t know anything about music production though.
The snags arise when playing games that use specific anti-cheat measures. Which is particularly annoying these days because developers are forcing them to be active when you're playing single player.
https://areweanticheatyet.com/
Yes, but it's the usual suspects. If you literally do not play those, admittedly very popular 5 or 6 games, it's a smooth sailing.
There's an entire world outside of AAA FPS games-as-a-service that require kernel-level anticheat.
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The whole windows game mod scene shows just how much of a toy operating system windows is. Game mods are changing memory values on the fly on running programs and the OS allows it. These mods can just as easily read/modify Excel spreadsheets to get business health data. This is why corporate windows machines lock everything down. Crazy.
Originally anti-cheat was to detect the running of the mods but of course now are phoning home every thing you are doing on your computer.
When the next window image manager claims windows is secure ask them to turn off the virus scanner. They will look at you like your nuts.
And mods. Yes there are work arounds to get various mod managers working on linux, but they're honestly jank. Also any mods that are windows executables (version downgraders, engine optimizers, etc) don't work, even trying to run them through wine / proton.
So now my annoyance at windows does battle with my love of mods. I know the nexus folks are working on a new cross platform mod manager, but they have yet to support bethesda games (I suspect for some of the same reasons I had issues).
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Yeah, I don’t really play any multiplayer games outside of Minecraft and OG Doom on my own server, so it’s never been an issue for me but I realize I am a weird case.
Always-online single-player is supremely bullshit though.
> are we anti cheat yet
While anti cheats have obvious benefits and are a dealbreaker for some, be careful what you wish for. It's a slippery slope. One chess streamer famously had to set up multiple cameras pointing at him from different angles to combat cheating accusations.
I play a lot of sports games and they rarely work with Linux. A ton of my other multiplayer games I play also don’t work. Anti-cheat stuff often requires Windows.
That’s fair. I do wonder if Valve has a plan to fix this at some point in the future for their Steam Decks.
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What music stuff I've tested worked on Linux, but I am also not a very demanding user in that regard.
EDIT: by Linux, I mean Linux+Proton