• Hazel『They/Them』@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    1 day ago

    Linux would be cool but the games I primarily play ate only on windows and doesn’t play well in VMs, and dual booting just isn’t worth the hassle.

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      Chicken and egg. Can’t have the gamers without games and games without the gamers. Valve and the steam deck might have changed that. Even if small, if that portion of 0.0x percent of the market buy games and it is enough to offset the developing costs to port the game, companies will do it since it will make business sense.

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      what’s “ate”? edit: oh it’s just a type for “are” isn’t it

      i would recommend getting an extra ssd, installing a beginner friendly distro (mint or pop for instance) and just boot it up occasionally, see what works, what doesn’t. i got into linux like this, gradually, over years

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        Oh I didn’t even see that typo.

        But yeah I’ve tried this and I just found my self booting less and less into Linux, to me it made more sense to just keep my PC on once I’m done playing, or alt tab out and work on other stuff with the game running in the background.

        However this old MMO is getting a unreal update sometime in the next few years so I’ll probably give it a try again and see if it’s able to run once that comes around.

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          idk which mmo it is but i would assume an older engine runs more reliably on linux than a new one

          actually, for me, trying and failing to run star wars republic commando a few years ago on win 10 was what pushed me to really look into gaming on linux, and after installing it via steam, enabling steam play, i just clicked play and it ran great, i was shocked
          and you can add any windows executable to steam (although it’s a bit janky), enable compatibility, and most of the times, stuff just runs
          heroic launcher also is great, but a bit more complicated