| ▲ | jcalvinowens a day ago |
| Now that Steam has Proton, my only remaining need for windows has evaporated. Good riddance. |
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| ▲ | Fire-Dragon-DoL a day ago | parent | next [-] |
| I wish it was the same for me. Nucleus coop is windows only and so many mods work only there,so I still need windows for gaming. I'm with you though ,I wish I could completely swap |
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| ▲ | nozzlegear a day ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| We recently replaced my wife's aging Windows PC with a Mac Mini, which eliminated the last Windows machine in our household. It feels good to be free of it, and our Macs handle World of Warcraft – the only game either of us play – without any problems. |
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| ▲ | barbazoo a day ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| What Linux distro would you recommend to be able to run Proton to play windows games but also for day to day light (mostly browser) use, SteamOS? |
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| ▲ | scuff3d a day ago | parent | next [-] | | If you want a more curated experience that takes a lot of the rough edges off Linux: https://bazzite.gg Bazzite isn't going to be as flexible as some other distros, but it's goal is to make the Linux transition as easy as possible. It's aimed primarily at gamers but you'll get a full OS that you can do all the normal stuff on | | |
| ▲ | BoredPositron 13 hours ago | parent [-] | | You can't perform all the usual tasks with it; it's a limited, immutable Arch derivative. Edit: Not arch but fedora. | | |
| ▲ | scuff3d 5 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | For regular people that just want gaming and a web browser it's fine. It would drive people like us nuts, but they aren't gonna care. It can load into a desktop environment by default and you can install Flatpacks, and it comes setup for gaming out of the box. That's enough for 90% of people. | |
| ▲ | LaxisB 13 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | you might be thinking of the new KDE distro. bazzite is fedora silverblue based. iirc there's access to flatpak homebrew, as well as rpm-ostree (basically rpm) among others | | |
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| ▲ | rightbyte a day ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | Debian works fine with Proton for me. I think it is not very picky. | |
| ▲ | jcalvinowens a day ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | I just run Debian Trixie with almost no problems. I build the kernels I use off the upstream release cycle (so, 6.17-rc6 right now). I build with LLVM Full LTO, not because it's necessarily faster, but because I want to find bugs in it :) For some reason the video acceleration in Steam itself will break running games if you alt-tab back and forth. But it can be disabled in the menus, and I haven't missed it at all. | |
| ▲ | Havoc a day ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | SteamOS is arch based so some variant of that makes a lot of sense if you're not going for steamos directly | |
| ▲ | lawlessone a day ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | Kubuntu works fine for me. Got cyberpunk to run on it very well, i havent had a game not work so far, but i don't play online shooters. Kubuntu is Debian but i don't think that has caused any issues. Since i got the deck i don't really use the PC for gaming much though. This is all purely my anecdotal opinion. | |
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| ▲ | voidfunc a day ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Proton's good-ish. But if you want to play a lot of AAA games it's a non-starter especially if they have invasive kernel anti-cheat. |
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| ▲ | autoexec a day ago | parent | next [-] | | Thankfully I don't want and will never want any games that infect my systems with "anti-cheat" malware so I see the lack of support for it as a feature. | | |
| ▲ | voidfunc a day ago | parent [-] | | Okay, but realize a lot of people do. Until there's parity there it will be a 2nd class platform. | | |
| ▲ | autoexec a day ago | parent [-] | | consoles are already a 2nd class platform and that works for a lot of people.
I suppose a new 2nd class platform will make consoles a third class platform |
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| ▲ | akimbostrawman 9 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | To quote myself because it's getting tiresome I wish people would stop bringing this up which has not been true for years. Around 40-50% of kernel level anti cheats work and are supported (in user space). https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45050913 Not to mention that AAA or any games with anti cheat are in the minority of all games. | |
| ▲ | jcalvinowens a day ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | I tend to play indie games, but I've never had anti-cheat problems. Everything happily runs on 6.17-rc5 right now. | |
| ▲ | lupusreal a day ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | AAA games are overproduced crap that compensate with aggressive marketing. | | | |
| ▲ | polski-g a day ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | Microsoft needs to provide their own anti-cheat hooks and block any kernel-level mods entirely. | |
| ▲ | ginko a day ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | Why would you willingly install games with invasive kernel anti-cheat? That's unacceptable both on Linux or Windows. | | |
| ▲ | voidfunc a day ago | parent | next [-] | | Because people want to play fun games with their friends and sometimes playing games with kernel anti-cheat is a requirement? | |
| ▲ | jawilson2 a day ago | parent | prev [-] | | What would you suggest to my kids that game with their friends and want to play Rocket League or Fortnite? | | |
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| ▲ | naikrovek a day ago | parent | prev [-] | | playing any game with an invasive kernel anti-cheat is a non-starter on its own. no game is worth that. | | |
| ▲ | voidfunc a day ago | parent [-] | | Clearly many people disagree with you given the popularity of games with invasive anti-cheat. |
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| ▲ | anal_reactor a day ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| My parents specifically need MS Office. LibreOffice won't do the job for them, because they deal with a lot of documents sent to them by other people, and also they're used to the interface. |
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| ▲ | jcalvinowens 16 hours ago | parent [-] | | Doesn't microsoft have office in the browser now? I'd think that would be a way around it. But I don't know, the last time I actually used MS office was over ten years ago... |
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| ▲ | 2OEH8eoCRo0 a day ago | parent | prev [-] |
| Think Steam proton will support GTA VI? I doubt it since it still doesn't support GTA V online |
