Down that hole

    • Viper_NZ@lemmy.nz
      3·
      1 year ago

      Probably just a gamer. My cycle is normally:

      1. I’ll switch to Linux permanently this time.
      2. Damn. Game X doesn’t work. Fine, I guess I’ll dual boot.
      3. Meh, restarting is so inconvenient. I’ll just stay in Windows until I’ve completed this game.
      4. I never reboot into Linux. Fine, I’ll run it from a vm instead.
      5. A year or more passes, revert to step one
      • miss_brainfart@lemmy.ml
        1·
        1 year ago

        Yeah, that’s fair.

        It’s just annoying that the issue isn’t even Linux itself most of the time, but rather game developers deliberately breaking or denying support for it.

        But at the end of the day, if you can’t play your games, you can’t play your games, the reason for that doesn’t matter.

        • Viper_NZ@lemmy.nz
          0·
          1 year ago

          The way things have gone over recent years, I don’t think it’ll be all that long before I can make a permanent switch.

          • miss_brainfart@lemmy.ml
            2·
            1 year ago

            Gaming on Linux is pretty damn great nowadays. More and more new releases run day one, Proton and Wine are being tirelessly worked on, and for most games it’s as simple as enabling Steam Play in an absolutely seamless set-and-forget type of way.

            The biggest problem are still competitive games and their anticheat, and while some titles enable Linux support, others go out of their way to show us the middle finger, sometimes even banning accounts using Linux.
            And that only gets worse when so many games have moved to more invasive anticheat solutions that wouldn’t work the way Linux handles these things.

    • Kecessa@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      31·
      1 year ago

      I’ve been playing with computers, building them and troubleshooting issues on them since we first had a 386, thanks for your concerns with my abilities.