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Microsoft's draconian Windows 11 restrictions will send an estimated 240 million PCs to the landfill when Windows 10 hits end of life in 2025 (www.tomshardware.com)

submitted 8 months ago by catch22@programming.dev to c/technology@lemmy.world

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Microsoft, doing it's part to make the world a better place.

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[–] nul9o9@lemmy.world 55 points 8 months ago (2 children)

I was in the same boat. But Valve seriously made it easy to install and play games on Steam. If you have a spare drive, give it a shot.

Things I had to do were to turn on proton in the steam settings and installing vulkan drivers for my AMD card.

[–] EdibleFriend@lemmy.world 12 points 8 months ago (2 children)

I honestly might with my next build this summer.

[–] Revan343@lemmy.ca 4 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

In a desktop (which is what you want for gaming anyways) why not? Easy enough to slot in a new drive and dual boot from there, no need to muck about with partitions like with a single-drive laptop.

If it doesn't work out, oh well, go back to Windows. But maybe Linux is finally there, and you'll find you don't need to go back

[–] robotica@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

Oh it's you again, Mr. Edible Friend...

A couple days ago I posted a comment on the negatives on Linux, but honestly, if you play normal games on Steam, like not some weird obscure Atari 2600 emulators, you can try Linux fearlessly.

99% of games work on Linux, I personally have played many Steam and non-Steam games, such as Cyberpunk 2077, War Thunder, world of tanks, rimworld, factorio, Overwatch etc. All ran flawlessly for me, and I even have an NVIDIA GPU, which is supposedly very bad on Linux!

[–] capital@lemmy.world 7 points 8 months ago

I was surprised by this.

Admittedly, I haven't played many video games in the past few years but I was a little disappointed when the list of Steam games for Linux was quite short.

Then I read about Proton. The first Windows-only game I tried worked great so I'm happy.

I play older games on a 1060 so I don't have a good sense of what the performance is compared to playing directly on Windows though.