Andy Young, an ex-Microsoft senior software engineer, posted a message on X/Twitter bemoaning that even with his $1,600 Core i9 CPU and 128 GB of RAM, Windows...
I would love to swap to Linux if I could play all my games without having to dual boot etc. Steam have done wonders with the proton compatability on steamdeck so there is hope but a lot of my hardware also requires software that is windows only too.
It might be a stupid comment I’m no Linux expert, but looking forward to the steamOS coming out for PC.
I’ve been running Nobara for about a month now and really like it. It’s a gaming focused distro put together by Glorious Eggroll, and it’s set up to make Linux desktop gaming as easy as possible. A few of my more demanding games drop a few frames, but for the most part things run just as well or better in Linux.
I was Linux gaming for 4 months (broke an update during a busy time and panicked to windows). And the games I was playing were perfectly fine however mods to the games weren’t supported no matter how hard I tried. Devil May Cry was my main problem
The biggest thing stopping me from making the switch is that I make music in Ableton and have spent hundreds if not thousands of dollars on plugins and programs that will only work on windows. Including Ableton itself.
this is one of the reasons i just sort of inherently refuse to pay for software unless it’s explicitly multi-platform. And even then i still probably wouldn’t
This is unfortunately unlikely. Valve controls the hardware of the Steam Deck, which in all of its variants is functionally the same platform with the same hardware in it, versus the near-inifite number of hardware combinations any random user could have in their PC. This means they can tailor it specifically to work perfectly with the platform it runs on. It won’t work that way on J. Random Gamer’s PC. The hardware support would be a nightmare and require a ridiculous amount of manpower to maintain.
Remember that hardware support is already the major weakness of Linux in all of its guises, and this is true even for massive distributions like Fedora, Debian, and Ubuntu with tons of people working on them. Drink every time you’re scrolling one of these threads and someone says something to the effect of, “I would use Linux on desktop if my [ wifi / video card / printer / sleep and suspend / Bluetooth / VR headset / etc. ] would actually work right.”
I’d doubt Valve would be willing to kick that beehive just for the karma points, or whatever. That’s not to say that enterprising hackers have not already figured out how to install SteamOS on devices it’s not meant to run on, but that doesn’t mean it’ll work right with all (or most) of them.
if steamOS 3 is open source it could very well be a situation of community PRs being pushed through to add support to these things. We’ve seen that already with SteamOS on other handhelds, like the rog ally, and friends, though that might be a community fork of it, steam is weird with releases so.
You should try it. I’ve had very little issue, and if anything slightly fewer issues. I don’t need to worry about updating my drivers anymore, for example. They just come with the kernel. Almost every game has worked besides one multiplayer game because of anti-cheat (The Finals), but that’s since been updated and it’s fine.
give linux a try! install a recent distro (fedora for exemple, especially if you have a pc with nvidia and optimus) and for exemple : Lutris : it is a breeze to use and play everything I own on gog com and steam so far
edit: misspelled lutris
Me too. Some development companies refuse to support it period or their games are unavailable to stream due to licensing etc., and that is the only reason I dual boot now. I would ditch it in a heartbeat otherwise.
I would love to swap to Linux if I could play all my games without having to dual boot etc. Steam have done wonders with the proton compatability on steamdeck so there is hope but a lot of my hardware also requires software that is windows only too.
It might be a stupid comment I’m no Linux expert, but looking forward to the steamOS coming out for PC.
For me I just gave up the games that don’t work on Linux. I didn’t have any windows only software I was bound to tho
So do I, this has resulted in my not careing about pretty much only anti-cheat games, which I already didn’t care about…
Legitimately haven’t encountered anything else that just doesn’t work barring the odd really old game that doesn’t even work on windows anymore anyway
Also went this way, now stick almost exclusively to indie titles and everything is just better
I’ve been running Nobara for about a month now and really like it. It’s a gaming focused distro put together by Glorious Eggroll, and it’s set up to make Linux desktop gaming as easy as possible. A few of my more demanding games drop a few frames, but for the most part things run just as well or better in Linux.
It’s worth a shot.
I’ll check it out, thanks
There’s not much in SteamOS that isn’t available to the rest of the ecosystem.
I was Linux gaming for 4 months (broke an update during a busy time and panicked to windows). And the games I was playing were perfectly fine however mods to the games weren’t supported no matter how hard I tried. Devil May Cry was my main problem
the biggest modding problem i had on linux was GTAV .net mods, those i only got working once, and then they proceeded to never work again.
The biggest thing stopping me from making the switch is that I make music in Ableton and have spent hundreds if not thousands of dollars on plugins and programs that will only work on windows. Including Ableton itself.
Never looked into this. Do VSTs not work on Linux ? Not withstanding the host ( ableton) of course . What about bitwig ?
Not natively but they do through Reaper For Linux. However, dongles do not. That could still be a big problem.
this is one of the reasons i just sort of inherently refuse to pay for software unless it’s explicitly multi-platform. And even then i still probably wouldn’t
This is unfortunately unlikely. Valve controls the hardware of the Steam Deck, which in all of its variants is functionally the same platform with the same hardware in it, versus the near-inifite number of hardware combinations any random user could have in their PC. This means they can tailor it specifically to work perfectly with the platform it runs on. It won’t work that way on J. Random Gamer’s PC. The hardware support would be a nightmare and require a ridiculous amount of manpower to maintain.
Remember that hardware support is already the major weakness of Linux in all of its guises, and this is true even for massive distributions like Fedora, Debian, and Ubuntu with tons of people working on them. Drink every time you’re scrolling one of these threads and someone says something to the effect of, “I would use Linux on desktop if my [ wifi / video card / printer / sleep and suspend / Bluetooth / VR headset / etc. ] would actually work right.”
I’d doubt Valve would be willing to kick that beehive just for the karma points, or whatever. That’s not to say that enterprising hackers have not already figured out how to install SteamOS on devices it’s not meant to run on, but that doesn’t mean it’ll work right with all (or most) of them.
if steamOS 3 is open source it could very well be a situation of community PRs being pushed through to add support to these things. We’ve seen that already with SteamOS on other handhelds, like the rog ally, and friends, though that might be a community fork of it, steam is weird with releases so.
You should try it. I’ve had very little issue, and if anything slightly fewer issues. I don’t need to worry about updating my drivers anymore, for example. They just come with the kernel. Almost every game has worked besides one multiplayer game because of anti-cheat (The Finals), but that’s since been updated and it’s fine.
Games is the only thing keeping me on win 😕
give linux a try! install a recent distro (fedora for exemple, especially if you have a pc with nvidia and optimus) and for exemple : Lutris : it is a breeze to use and play everything I own on gog com and steam so far edit: misspelled lutris
How’s vr support?
I don’t have vr yet, so I don’t know
Me too. Some development companies refuse to support it period or their games are unavailable to stream due to licensing etc., and that is the only reason I dual boot now. I would ditch it in a heartbeat otherwise.
You should check the compatibility of your most important games on Protondb.com. Your other windows software might work on WINE, too.