Thinking on switching to linux
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Approaching the end of window 10 and have no plans on upgrading to 11.
I am trying to find alternatives to applications I regularly use before jumping ship (it is mostly a gaming focused pc) any suggestions?
I think providing a list of those applications might be a first step
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Approaching the end of window 10 and have no plans on upgrading to 11.
I am trying to find alternatives to applications I regularly use before jumping ship (it is mostly a gaming focused pc) any suggestions?
iTunes: Quod Libet.
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iTunes: Quod Libet.
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Approaching the end of window 10 and have no plans on upgrading to 11.
I am trying to find alternatives to applications I regularly use before jumping ship (it is mostly a gaming focused pc) any suggestions?
The linux ecosystem, depending on which distro you choose, has anywhere from tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands of packages. There's only select software that you can't virtualize from Windows to Linux, so you may not even be required to find alternatives.
But without listing any software at all, it's hard to tell you definitively...
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I think providing a list of those applications might be a first step
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From what i understand (probably wrong), Valve forked WINE and did their own development on Proton.
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From what i understand (probably wrong), Valve forked WINE and did their own development on Proton.
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It does. The simplest way to use Proton with other games is to add each as a non-Steam game to... Steam. But there are also CLIs for it.
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Approaching the end of window 10 and have no plans on upgrading to 11.
I am trying to find alternatives to applications I regularly use before jumping ship (it is mostly a gaming focused pc) any suggestions?
"VPN"? Which?
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It does. The simplest way to use Proton with other games is to add each as a non-Steam game to... Steam. But there are also CLIs for it.
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"VPN"? Which?
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Approaching the end of window 10 and have no plans on upgrading to 11.
I am trying to find alternatives to applications I regularly use before jumping ship (it is mostly a gaming focused pc) any suggestions?
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Yep! In steam, Add Game > Add Non-Steam Game > Select the Game. Then in the game's properties, go to the compatibility section and choose "Force the use of a specific Steam Play compatibility tool", which will then run the game under Proton.
That said, I actually run a number of games under Wine. The Heroic Launcher covers GOG, Epic, and Prime games, and will install them with Wine enabled for them by default.
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Approaching the end of window 10 and have no plans on upgrading to 11.
I am trying to find alternatives to applications I regularly use before jumping ship (it is mostly a gaming focused pc) any suggestions?
Depending on what VPN software you use, they may already have a linux version.
For anti-virus, you don't need one in Linux. Even for Windows I would recommend using the built-in AV, rather than Norton.
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Approaching the end of window 10 and have no plans on upgrading to 11.
I am trying to find alternatives to applications I regularly use before jumping ship (it is mostly a gaming focused pc) any suggestions?
Gmail as in email client? Thunderbird
Anti virus? Just need common sense. Dont visit shady site and download random executable
Windows? Try linux mint if this your first time. I heard PopOS is good if you play games.
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Yep! In steam, Add Game > Add Non-Steam Game > Select the Game. Then in the game's properties, go to the compatibility section and choose "Force the use of a specific Steam Play compatibility tool", which will then run the game under Proton.
That said, I actually run a number of games under Wine. The Heroic Launcher covers GOG, Epic, and Prime games, and will install them with Wine enabled for them by default.
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It's worth looking into Lutris for non-Steam games as well. Comes preinstalled with Bazzite (heavily gaming-optimized Linux distro), though I don't have any non-Steam games to try it on since Steam works fine for all the games I play.
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