• danthehutt@lemmy.world
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      10 months ago

      Yep, my computer is zippy and nice but they won’t even let me upgrade. I’m off to Linux once I’ve finished BG3.

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        You may want to try BG3 on linux, too. Might even get better performances at this point.

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          So BG3 probably runs just fine but my main concern was that I made the purchase on GOG and downloading it manually was a nightmare and I kept getting failures to download or install with the 3rd party GOG launcher solutions. If I could have gotten past that, I would have been golden. I didn’t want to invest the time to figure it out so I just reverted back for the time being.

          I was super impressed with Steam + proton though. Insane how far Linux gaming has come.

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            Use heroic! It works great as an unofficial gog client for Linux, you can try it on windows to see how it works

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              I’ll try it out next time! I was trying to dive head first and probably should have just dual booted until I worked out the kinks.

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        BG3 runs more reliably on Linux for me, though my Windows install is getting old and crusty these days.

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      Microsoft didn’t get nearly enough flak for the amount of environmental damage they will cause with that decision. A literal mountain of computers being unnecessarily replaced worldwide.

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      10 months ago

      I’m Running the most recent kernel and Linux on a rolling release distro, on my 8 year old Ryzen, with upgraded GPU. Runs buttery smooth even with new games! Windows is a joke.

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      Meanwhile I’ve got the latest Linux Mint running on a laptop that turns 10 years old this August.

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      My hardware is closing in between 7-9 years depending on the part. Have been meaning to upgrade and convert to Linux, but for now my pc “just works”