6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux?
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I've been hard at trying to get games i like to work in mint. It takes a lit of time but it's going ok. Like you said though kind of sucks for multi-player. I can't even get diabolical multi-player to work (after I looked up how to fix the instant crashing audio driver issue) . It's also a lot of qork getting any racing game to work with my DFGT...even though linux does see the axis and buttons, the force feedback is all messed up. Wish I knew how to code so I could fix these issues! But I don't have 12 hours a day to ever learn that
Use Bazzite. It is a distro dedicated to gaming and user friendly for beginners. It still has some limitations but it is better compared to others when it comes to gaming. You don't really require more tweaking unlike other distros to make games work.
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Sadly I use way too many programs that only work on windows or Mac that Linux would handicap me. The free open source versions of yhe apps I use are no where near as capable.
My only option I can think of would be running a virtual machine of Win10 on a Linux install so I can still use those apps.
Maybe check out Bottles [1]. It's similar to Proton/Wine, but for regular Software and it runs pretty damn well.
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Sadly I use way too many programs that only work on windows or Mac that Linux would handicap me. The free open source versions of yhe apps I use are no where near as capable.
My only option I can think of would be running a virtual machine of Win10 on a Linux install so I can still use those apps.
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I still use steam on Windows 7. I don't see the problem.
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For now yes but when a zero day is found 1 guy could literally take down every single 10 install and Microsoft won’t be bothered to fix it
Why not? They were fixing Windows XP remote-execution exploits all the way up to 2017.
And that stuff is only used to take down children's hospitals, they don't waste 0-day exploits on some rando's home PC.
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I have procrastinated the switch this far, I'll be damned if my laziness gives in now! Lol
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Use Bazzite. It is a distro dedicated to gaming and user friendly for beginners. It still has some limitations but it is better compared to others when it comes to gaming. You don't really require more tweaking unlike other distros to make games work.
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I completely disagree. Debian is not beginner-friendly. Go with Bazzite if your focus is gaming.
It is a gaming-focused distribution. It's also an "atomic" distribution, which basically means it's really hard to break it. It's more like Android or IOS where the OS and base system are managed by someone else. They're read-only so you can't accidentally break them.
For example, instead of trying to manage your own video card drivers, they come packaged with the base system image, and they're tested to make sure they work with all the other base components.
I've been using Linux since the 1990s, so I've run my share of distributions: Slackware, RedHat, Gentoo, Debian, Ubuntu, etc. Even for someone experienced, atomic distributions are great. But, for a newcomer they're so much better.
How does Bazzite fare when I want to do something a bit different. Install docker, Python, PHP, sqlite, etc. I'd normally just install them, but does this work for Bazzite and other atomic/immutable distros?
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Linux. I've been putting if off because of hardware reasons that would be annoying to explain beyond the solution is upgrading the motherboard, which is bottlenecking me anyways.
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I don't know. If more devs start to support Linux, I probably will.
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I play many kinds of games. Using a Windows emulator in Linux doesn't count as "running on Linux"
If the game plays on your linux distro who cares what you call it?
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I'd consider switching if somebody spoonfed me into being able to use/know it's basics.
I am currently way too overstimulated with switching to privacy-focused and less (US-)corpo-reigned alternatives (like lemmy instead of reddit)
I installed Linux on a raspberry pi recently (first time using Linux in 15+ years), and in addition to reading stuff on Lemmy, I found that this is a really good use case for chatgpt or similar LLMs.
I was able to get chatgpt to explain stuff to me, ask it to dumb it down further, provide examples, correct my incorrect assumptions, etc.
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Why need upgrade at all? I've never needed "support" before
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I still use steam on Windows 7. I don't see the problem.
Do you worry about connecting it to the internet?
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Jumping to Linux for sure. The hardest part is going to be finding time to learn it first...
Have you considered making a Linux virtual machine now, and learning small things a few minutes at a time between other tasks? That ought to give you a head start when it comes time to commit.
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Been using Linux for years and the only issue with it is the incompetence of big studios. And them going out of their way to make sure stuff doesn't work on Linux.
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Why need upgrade at all? I've never needed "support" before
I hope this is a sarcastic joke.
If it’s not, support means updates. More importantly security updates.
There is a reason you don’t put a windows XP machine on the internet.
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Why need upgrade at all? I've never needed "support" before
The "support" most importantly includes security updates. You better bet every hacking group has been working at finding fresh zero days for Windows 10 and is stockpiling them to start hammering any PCs that can't be upgraded this October
