Nik282000

Test it out on an old PC, you gotta have one hanging around the house. After a couple of weeks you’ll wonder how you got anything done without it.

And so you spend hours tweaking the UI only to have it nuked by an update. If you’re gonna rice your desktop, run Linux!

I read a long time ago that delays had to be added to desktop UIs because users didn’t think the computer was “working” if it responded in a single video frame. Maybe the M$ LLM read that too and took it to heart.

I think I’ve had one game in the past 4 years that was totally broken with Proton but all I had to do was switch versions. Blew me away to have a literal 1-click solution to gaming on Linux.

Still running a 1080, between nvidia and windows 11 I think I’ll stay where I am.

Switched on my daily driver around 2016 and have been doing all but VR gaming on Linux since about 2019. I would totally recommend it to any one as long as they aren’t a tripple a, release day kinda gamer.

Yup, I have a 500gb HDD for Steam Games, loading screens are a few seconds longer than you would expect but that just makes time for a beer break.

Valve devs said “we are not working on, and have no plans to re-start work on Half-Life 3” in the recently released HL2 audio commentary. How much clearer to they have to be?

also, go play HL2 with the commentary on, it was awesome and worth the re-visit

My 1080 from 2017 has 8gb of vram. Still works fine.

3.3k over 19 years isn’t too bad considering I bought an Index and Deck :/ If anything I need more games!

Why? 4k is already at the limit of what your eyes can resolve unless you have an enormous screen.

Virtual Box is probably the easiest to get started but lately I have been using LXC containers because they are a very similar to VMs but with less overhead.

No idea where you are in your trek, but if you can find the time learn how to use virtual machines (or use an old laptop) so you can test stuff without fear of breaking a machine you rely on.

When I want to use a new package or make a change to my setup I will do it in a virtual machine as many times as it takes until I get it right, then use my notes to do it on my daily driver. I went from a Windows only user to daily driving Linux in about a year thanks to keeping good notes.

Windows still hasn’t decided what it’s configuration windows should look like, there are still dialogs with the 30 year old W95 design language. I doubt that they were able to put together a seamless gaming UI over that past x months or years.

Virtual Box. It’s dead easy.

I’m not familiar with it but you might get lucky and it will work with Wine. It took me years before I was comfortable dropping Windows but I am a lot less anxious now about having an update randomly brick my PC or wipe out my settings/tweaks.

Good luck!

For anything that HAS to work and only runs on Windows (eat a dick Siemens) I put it in a VM with no network connection. A physical machine that gets regular updates is too unstable to rely on.

When ever I’m teaching a new guy I try to get them on board with using VMs at at minimum for reliability and a VM under Linux if they are interested.

That sucks. About 5 years ago I put ideology one peg above entertainment and just avoid games that use Windows only anti-cheat, I don’t get to play the biggest releases but there are literally thousands of other games that work perfectly and are just as fun.

If I were you I would keep my Windows gaming machine as a single function device. Play games, get all the MS updates and 3rd party spyware, don’t let it touch anything you want to keep private or safe.

Make the switch, even if it’s on an old laptop first just to try it out. About 90% of my Steam library runs without any extra effort needed, a few games needed tweaks that I found in the steam message boards, and 5 or 10 just refused to work at all.

You can not steal what you can not own. ☠️