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    [–] Amputret@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 9 hours ago (4 children)

    Oh the times a-coming, but as I only really use my PC for gaming now, I’m holding out for a SteamOS distro.

    [–] eager_eagle@lemmy.world 11 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (1 children)

    you don't have to wait, games run fine in most distros and the ones that don't are probably because of anti cheat which won't be solved with steamOS.

    [–] Uli@sopuli.xyz 2 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

    Yeah, I keep my Windows PC purely for League of Legends due to their anti cheat (read rootkit) and it's a pre-2017 chip, so it's not Win 11 eligible (which I've always counted my blessings for). And also the Spotify web page doesn't work well for me on Linux. Other than that, I do pretty much everything on my newer Linux machine.

    [–] eager_eagle@lemmy.world 2 points 5 hours ago

    yeah, part of me is happy these abusive rootkits disguised as anti-cheats "don't work" on Linux. We customers shouldn't be putting up with that crap.

    [–] reseller_pledge609@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (1 children)

    I've heard good things about Bazzite if that's an option for you.

    [–] Know_not_Scotty_does@lemmy.world 8 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

    Bazzite has been awesome as a recent windows expat. 100% recommended and the only game I have not gotten working via the built in steam compatibility tools has been pubg.

    [–] Ketram@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 2 hours ago

    I think the only thing stopping me from gaming 100% on bazzite is Helldivers 2 anti-cheat (so fucking tired of these rootkits) isn't Linux compatible last time I checked.I hope that shit changes soon, because I can't wait to fully remove windows off my extra hard drive.

    [–] reseller_pledge609@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

    When I stop needing Windows, that's gonna be one of the first distros I try. Haven't tried the atomic distros properly yet.

    [–] Know_not_Scotty_does@lemmy.world 3 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

    I spun up a win10 vm in bazzite to run my CAD and Windows specific stuff and have basically not used it in months now. The libre office suite has gotten much better over the years and most of my normal usage just didn't end up being OS specific. Its been a great and easy transition for me.

    Nice. I'm hoping to get there eventually, but work stuff is keeping me on Windows.

    Valve is working on it.

    [–] SaltSong@startrek.website 4 points 9 hours ago (4 children)

    Same here. The minute I can be confident than my steam collection will run on Linux, I'm switching over.

    [–] drkt_@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

    Have you tried? Because Proton is the miracle people make it up to be.

    [–] SaltSong@startrek.website 1 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

    I'm not in a position to experiment, but I'm following the lead of a friend who is in such a position, and is far more technical than I am.

    I'll ask him about proton. Appreciate the recommend.

    [–] zippythezigzag@lemm.ee 2 points 4 hours ago

    Just started using mint. Tell me a game that you're curious about and if I own it I'll try it out.

    [–] verdigris@lemmy.ml 2 points 6 hours ago

    Yeah SteamOS is nothing special. Any of the big distros can give you a similarly solid gaming experience these days.

    [–] jws_shadotak@sh.itjust.works 8 points 8 hours ago

    https://www.protondb.com/

    I haven't had any issues with any of my games.

    For anything not on steam, there's bottles or lutris, both of which work amazingly well.

    [–] smeg@feddit.uk 3 points 7 hours ago

    There was a comment thread in one of the Linux communities a while back talking about this mindset. Obviously the comments got a bit rude and unconstructive, but the point is that you can switch to something like bazzite now and most things will work pretty well, but if you're holding out until it's perfect then you'll be waiting forever!

    The only game I have not been able to get running via steam/proton has been pubg.