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[–] eskimofry@lemmy.world 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

If you can invest 30 bucks, crossover claims to make any windows app work seamlessly in linux. Otherwise, there's still wine to cover 90% usecases.

Worst case, you can run windows in a VM.

[–] misanthropy@lemm.ee 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Anti cheat forces most people to still run windows for a number of games

[–] eskimofry@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Then this discussion doesn't apply to those people. I don't like the argument that Linux isn't ready for mainstream yet but the reasons quoted are often some game that is itself a niche.

Edit: this is why I specifically said 90% use cases in my previous comment.