A lot of games are going to work without you having to do anything and some will need some tinkering. In that case, https://www.protondb.com/ will be your best friend, telling you exactly what you need to do to get things running.
That being said, some games simply can’t be run under Linux. They might work in the future as compatibility improves but some won’t. If it’s an issue for you, you might want to dual boot windows as a workaround.
Personally, I recommend quitting Windows cold-turkey and not dual-booting at all. If a game genuinely doesn’t work without dual-booting, you don’t need it. No game is so important that it’s worth compromising your security, privacy, and property rights over.
Im a wuss and have an older laptop running windows for some things. Its really just me being lazy and not wanting to bother with the high hanging fruit.
Good thing about the distro he chose is that pretty much every game will run fine. I love bazzite. Two months on it now and I haven’t even had to open the terminal or download a single driver. It’s definitely been my go to recommendation for anyone looking to leave windows and build a gaming PC.
I’ve seen some folks complain about its size, but it’s like 8 or 9gb. Small price to pay if you ask me for how turnkey it is. Besides storage is cheap now.
I’ve seen some folks complain about its size, but it’s like 8 or 9gb. Small price to pay if you ask me for how turnkey it is. Besides storage is cheap now.
Especially when you consider Windows is like 20-30GB
Yeah I think people are just kind of used to how small some distros be and eventually it stops being a game of how much space can I save and more like dogma lol.
I mean even if you’ve got some tiny machine with only 128gb you’re still talking less than 10% of the machine vs. upwards of 25%
A lot of games are going to work without you having to do anything and some will need some tinkering. In that case, https://www.protondb.com/ will be your best friend, telling you exactly what you need to do to get things running.
That being said, some games simply can’t be run under Linux. They might work in the future as compatibility improves but some won’t. If it’s an issue for you, you might want to dual boot windows as a workaround.
Funnily, sometimes the pirate version of a game works whilst the official one does not…
Personally, I recommend quitting Windows cold-turkey and not dual-booting at all. If a game genuinely doesn’t work without dual-booting, you don’t need it. No game is so important that it’s worth compromising your security, privacy, and property rights over.
Unfortunately some of us need windows for more than games, and there aren’t Linux alternatives
This 100%. Give up Windows and never look back, you will not regret it.
Im a wuss and have an older laptop running windows for some things. Its really just me being lazy and not wanting to bother with the high hanging fruit.
but dont dual boot on the same drive! get a second SSD or something because windows is a big bully and always wants to screw stuff up
Good thing about the distro he chose is that pretty much every game will run fine. I love bazzite. Two months on it now and I haven’t even had to open the terminal or download a single driver. It’s definitely been my go to recommendation for anyone looking to leave windows and build a gaming PC.
I’ve seen some folks complain about its size, but it’s like 8 or 9gb. Small price to pay if you ask me for how turnkey it is. Besides storage is cheap now.
I’m so used to terminal that I’ve installed most of the apps I’ll use using it
I guess it’s more “i’ve had nothing come up that required using it,” which for some folks is very intimidating!
Especially when you consider Windows is like 20-30GB
Yeah I think people are just kind of used to how small some distros be and eventually it stops being a game of how much space can I save and more like dogma lol.
I mean even if you’ve got some tiny machine with only 128gb you’re still talking less than 10% of the machine vs. upwards of 25%
If you do dual boot, turn on the BIOS password to prevent Windows from messing with your bootloader.