Hi /g/
In my professional life I work mainly with centos / redhat boxes. At home I have a windows 7 PC and a laptop with Ubuntu on it. As I got more mature I found that I prefer using Linux compared to windows. I want to move to a new Linux distro on my main PC and purge windows but I play games and most of them only work for windows - that is the sole thing that is blocking my switch. I know about wine but heard that it can be flakey.
Have you ran into this and if so what did you do? Is it time to stop playing vidya?
I installed Steam on Manjaro and continued to play games in my spare time.
How's things back in 2011, anon?
Grow up baby.
Learn how to GPU pass through, then you get the best of both, in addition to a number of other benefits that using a virtual machine brings
>>62023824
how old r u bby?
>>62023824
best bet would to dual boot until you get bored of gaming or no longer care for it
>>62023824
This is pasta but may help:
Not him but the no games argument is not true anymore. Windows is the best os for gaming mostly due to most game developers are trained into developing for it with microsoft's closed APIs, so the simple process of porting a game that was developed for windows to any other platform will affect negatively the performance of the game. This with the fact that the marketshare is small compared to windows there's hardly an incentive at the moment to optimize for linux, making look as if the platform were worse for games than windows when in fact to flip the situation you'll need to change the idiosyncrasies on the industry itself.
The fact though is that the situation on linux is not nearly the same than two years ago and now those who prefer linux over windows now can play games on it, helping to break the vicious circle, but still there's a lot of things to do for linux to compete in the gaming side. I anyone wants for this to change i recommend to play the games you can on linux when possible and ask for linux ports.
I notice some people doesn't want's for this to happen but if that the case let me ask (not directed specifically to the person i'm replying): how are any of you benefited in a meaningful way with the current situation? because i consider that keeping the statu quo just to have a tool to win an argument on what OS is better is not a meaningful thing. how having less options and practically being locked to MS products benefits you?
Some links:
https://steamdb.info/linux/
http://store.steampowered.com/search/?category1=998&os=linux
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXr8bqzf45Y
https://www.youtube.com/user/tuxreviews/videos
https://www.youtube.com/user/airspeedmph
https://www.youtube.com/user/Jakejw93/videos
https://www.youtube.com/user/mrdeathjr28/videos
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWZvwhwT1Sk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9gsu_YWUzE
>>62023926
>>62023866
Thank you
>>62023824
>playing gaymes
>>62023824
>playing goymes
>>62024568
>>62024512
I know right? Why should anyone have hobbies that anons on /g/ don't agree with?