I’m helping a family member build a pc. He wanted to use Windows because “Linux can’t play games” despite me having a perfectly good gaming laptop running Linux that runs all my games, even graphically intensive ones.

2 days later, no game has been played yet. We can’t even get steam to start. I even installed Arch on a sata ssd I donated just to verify the pc parts actually work (took less than an hour). It took 1 and a half days to even get the Windows 11 installer to get past like the 3rd screen.

Fucking fuck. Dealing with all this fucking bullshit is far worse than not being able to play a few trashy anticheat pay 2 win games. The anti Linux circlejerk is real.

  • @[email protected]
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    7611 months ago

    These “Windows bad” posts are the worst thing in the Linux community. I run Windows on my desktop because Games are just far easier and usually run better, and Windows works perfectly fine.

    • @masterairmagic
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      1711 months ago

      Games just run on my Linux laptop these days. I stopped checking winehq a long time ago.

      • @[email protected]
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        611 months ago

        ProtonDB is the first place I go before buying a game, most of the time games work, but there’s a few occasions where I have to change some configurations.

        • @masterairmagic
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          011 months ago

          I used to do that too, but I don’t bother anymore. It just works.

      • R0cket_M00se
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        311 months ago

        I don’t have any issues with performance, just with anticheat not being compatible with my most played games.

      • Tempy
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        111 months ago

        I do tend to check protondb, people tend to have figured out the best options for the most stable performance for a lot of games.