• six_arm_spider_man@reddthat.comEnglish
    25·
    7 months ago

    Me a few months back when I accidentally formatted the Windows drive I was keeping for dual booting just in case.

    “Guess I’m a full timer now”

  • alliswell33 @lemmy.sdf.org
    15·
    7 months ago

    On my duel booted system I still have windows. But I haven’t had to use it in a couple weeks and at this point might just delete it and go fully into Linux only. Just a few windows only apps that are making me unsure. Might try windows vm.

    • KuroeNekoDemon@sh.itjust.worksOP
      11·
      7 months ago

      Honestly if I played any games that had anti cheat I would run a windows vm in QEMU/KVM. Go the GrapheneOS route and sandbox the spyware (cough Google and Microsoft cough)

      • ichbinjasokreativ@lemmy.world
        10·
        7 months ago

        Some anti cheats can detect that they’re running in a virtual machine and if they do, you’ll probably get banned for some reason.

        • ExploratrixLunae@kbin.social
          9·
          7 months ago

          I think they mean that sandboxing Windows in a VM is akin to how GrapheneOS can sandbox Google apps, not that they would use Graphene on a PC.

          Happy to be corrected though!

    • u/lukmly013 💾 (lemmy.sdf.org)@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
      5·
      7 months ago

      I have a Windows install that I haven’t booted up in 2 years. I didn’t really use it anyway. I just had one thing to finish there, but I am lazy.

      I only used it for a few weeks after getting that laptop while waiting for Linux kernel 5.8 which would finally support that hardware as nothing older booted up.

  • ghashul@feddit.dk
    8·
    7 months ago

    By the time i got my current pc I hadn’t booted into windows for several months in the old one, so it never got installed on this one.

  • Hellfire103@lemmy.caEnglish
    6·
    7 months ago

    Once I’d tasted Linux Mint in 2019, I just gave up on Windows altogether. Linux and BSD all the way!

  • db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    1·
    7 months ago

    Finally switched (again) full time to Linux early last year. With the current state of Steam proton I have finally 0 reasons to go back. If a game doesn’t work natively on Linux, I refund and move on. There’s so many games out there, I have no reason to go out of my way for any one.

  • Hyrulian@lemmy.world
    0·
    7 months ago

    There are three things holding me back from making the switch full time, I use a stream deck from Elgato for automating a lot of tasks, I stream VR titles from Steam, and I have an Nvidia graphics card.

    • ysjet@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      7 months ago

      You… can? That’s been a thing for ages. Windows has literally been taking queues from Linux on how to makes installing packages and apps easier.

      • baseless_discourse@mander.xyz
        0·
        7 months ago

        Windows has literally been taking queues from Linux on how to makes installing packages and apps easier.

        Not to argue with you, but I think it would be fun if you can provide the source for this. I am very interested in how Windows is improving (not that I will jump back)

  • citrusface@lemmy.worldEnglish
    0·
    7 months ago

    So serious question - are you supposed to dual boot window / Linux for some reason?

    When I got frustrated with Windows - I wiped my hard drive and just installed Linux mint having literally never used Linux in my life. I didn’t like mint so I tried pop_os (someone here recommended it, thanks again!) and I see zero reason to go back to Windows now.

    What is the point of going back to Windows when I can run everything i ran before on Linux now?

    My games work better and I’ve found so many free open source alternatives to everything - it’s been really eye opening just jumping in. I’m glad I did.

    Edit - I should have clarified Windows other than work, I understand Windows is the life blood of the corporate body - good points on forrnite / valorant / destiny - I don’t play those so I didn’t know.

    • ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca
      2·
      7 months ago

      My Windows install does two things

      Piracy/modding for consoles when there isn’t a Linux app available < I could probably use Wine

      Figuring out tech support for other people when they refuse to use Linux

    • saintshenanigans@programming.dev
      0·
      7 months ago

      One of the biggest things stopping me is that my partner loves to play fortnite so i play it with them a lot, is there anything to allow you to play EAC games? Iirc epic said they don’t want to account for security across every Linux distro

      • Crozekiel@lemmy.zip
        1·
        7 months ago

        Basically the only road block I’ve seen is a lot of games using anti-cheat software just refuse to allow Linux. Some of it even has an option to allow it to run under proton and the devs don’t enable that option so it’s blocked. It’s basically them saying they don’t trust the Linux community not to cheat.

        Then you get into the root-kit anti-cheat stuff like valorant uses which wants to load before the os and then control and monitor everything the os does and what hardware is connected… I’ve stayed away from the invasive as fuck anti-cheat games for years even before my move to Linux, so nothing lost there.

      • Cosmic Cleric@lemmy.world
        0·
        7 months ago

        is there anything to allow you to play EAC games?

        Steam has EAC available under Linux, you just install it just like it is its own game.

        • SuperIce@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          7 months ago

          The developer has to specifically allow it though. Epic themselves don’t let EAC for Fortnite run on Linux because they don’t trust it as much as the rootkit version that only runs Windows.

          • Cosmic Cleric@lemmy.world
            0·
            7 months ago

            The developer has to specifically allow it though.

            True. But then that becomes a vendor problem, and not a Linux problem.

            My point is that Linux went from 0% support for any game that uses EAS, to 100% support for any game that uses (and enables) EAS. There’s many more games that you can now play on Linux that you could not before.

            • Joe Cool@lemmy.ml
              1·
              7 months ago

              It’s almost at the point where Wine can run more games than Windows. Most games from the Win98 to early WinXP era just run fine on Wine and don’t even show a title screen or glitch and flicker on Win10.

    • Telodzrum@lemmy.world
      01·
      7 months ago

      I used to dual boot for some work tasks and to play games. With OnlyOffice and Office365 in a browser, I can do everything I used to need desktop Window apps for. With Wine, Proton, and Proton-GE I can play all of my games in Steam or Heroic Launcher, so I don’t need Windows for games anymore.

      There is still a usecase for people who need Windows for specific usecases; but for most people the only obstacle is learning curve (and don’t come at me with Mint, Ubuntu, and ElemntaryOS you’re lying to yourselves).

  • MrPoopbutt@lemmy.world
    0·
    7 months ago

    I haven’t tried it myself yet, but I’ve heard that steam vr does not work well on Linux. Is that still the case? Occasional vr is the only thing keeping me from nuking my windows install.

    • Domi@lemmy.secnd.me
      1·
      7 months ago

      SteamVR on Linux works out of the box if you have a Valve Index or a HTC Vive.

      There are some others that work via ALVR but can’t speak about that.

      Two caveats though:

      • Valve likes to break SteamVR for Linux with every third update and then takes weeks to fix it
      • It works but there’s a lot of issues with it. From incorrectly scaled UI, to missing features, to SteamVR Home not working for a year straight

      Most of the time there are community workarounds but there’s only so much they can do.

    • jaemo@sh.itjust.works
      1·
      7 months ago

      Works great. Very occasionally I get an error (black screen) requiring me to disconnect and reconnect the display port adapter but I get the same occasional nonsense with my regular monitor too so 🤷.

      Usually that happens after new Nvidia drivers too so…

  • phoenixz@lemmy.ca
    0·
    7 months ago

    I’ve been running Linux KDE desktop only (mostly Ubuntu) since 2003, so well over 20 years, only reason to look at windows was either work, or family who again for the nth time had a forked up windows install

  • preludeofme@lemmy.world
    0·
    7 months ago

    My only thing holding me back is my kids play Roblox and for the life of me I can’t get it working since they blocked it last year. Tried all the troubleshooting, vinegar, juice box, etc nothing works

    • DerpyPlayz18@lemm.ee
      1·
      7 months ago

      I use Grapejuice. It’s a simple flatpak that I can install and it just works. You just need to go into its settings and choose between Vulkan, D3D11 or something else if the performance isn’t good.

      EDIT: just found out about Vinegar, I’ll try it later. Apparently it’s better than Grapejuice

      EDIT 2: the game doesn’t launch with it even after following the troubleshooting instructions, so if this doesn’t work for you use Grapejuice