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Follow-up video to https://lemmy.world/post/32690521


Spoiler alert: the main reason he says the experience "hasn't been great" is because shortly before posting the video his Linux install mysteriously broke and he had no idea why. Therefore, he recommended dual-booting Windows just in case.

Cue sea of comments explaining that the reason for the error he was getting was that Windows screwed up his bootloader (i.e. the problem was caused by dual-booting to begin with, LOL).

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[–] Defaced@lemmy.world -1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

People need to stop watching this clickbaiting asshole. No shit kernel anti cheat doesn't work in Linux, it's been a thing forever, that's never gonna change. Did he use mesa or amdgpu? RADV or proprietary? Wasn't that long ago that windows had similar problems. Not surprised the windows and Nvidia shill doesn't do basic research.

[–] MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

Did he use mesa or amdgpu? RADV or proprietary?

I gotta admit I don't understand why the best option isn't used by default? Like when I go to download drivers off AMD/Nvidias websites there's just one option to pick for gaming, I don't have multiple options I need to research.

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[–] tacosanonymous@mander.xyz -2 points 4 days ago (3 children)

I do a lot of sailing and none of the installers work on Linux. 100% windows and sometimes they have Mac versions.

So, I need a windows machine to do some work and transfer the installed game to my Linux machines.

The amount of work necessary is not conducive to the chill gamer lifestyle I have cultivated for 40+ years.

I've only ever had one repack completely fail to install and I just got an unpacked dump of the files and installed the crack manually.

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