Linux, you, and vidya

the original had ubuntu

>Nah. Linux don't work with shitty anticheat and antipiracy software.
shitty anticheat and antipiracy aren't mutually exclusive to "newer games"

>Zig Forums says things is dead
>thing is alive

Make an exception to EVE, my man. The devs are based.

>EVE on Linux
it's like you want to overdose on autism

>games with anticheat and antipiracy measures will usually not run
>get VAC banned

Thanks Linux

>Motivate me to switch from "just works (usually)" Windows 10
No way fag. Linux is serviceable, you can play most definitely not all games on it, but if you feel like W10 already works for you then you have no reason to switch.

>linux
>gaming
>using linux at all, even
Linux users are the vegans of the technology world, OP.

Source games are native, though.

I would be very surprised if Linux didn't support more "older" games than Windows does at this point. I can't think of anything that Linux doesn't have an easy answer for. Generally there's at least one neckbeard on Linux out there that will move heaven and earth to keep their old obscure game from their childhood supported. While on the other hand even when I still used Windows like a decade ago there was still compatibly issues.

Games in Proton/Wine almost always run at least a bit worse than on Windows.
Does this mean they're more demanding on the GPU or the CPU or both?

Wine translates windows API calls to Linux ones. That's always going to have some amount of overhead.

are you using the vulkan drivers? my computer is too old for them and it makes games under wine/proton unbearably slow

This doesn't answer my question.

It can work, but don't expect it to out of the box. I'd recommend dual booting with an Ubuntu install for a while and using it as your daily driver. See how often you need to reboot into Windows. The installer will give you an option to resize your Windows partition so you don't really have anything to lose. Just make sure you make a good backup first in case something fails.

I recommend Ubuntu not because it's the best distribution, but it's the most well supported.

Expect a learning curve. You're probably going to have to drop to the terminal once or twice, maybe edit some config files, nothing major.

What said is true, but I think the noticeable problems generally come from certain calls not being translated perfectly or hacks being put in place. In a perfect world, with how Wine is supposed to operate, I think there might be literally no performance change/"wasted" CPU cycles

I can't speak for EGS, but between Steam and Lutris everything I've thrown at it works for the most part or ended up working later. I suppose if you play the latest AAA games as they come out then you might run into issues.

If you're seriously looking to ditch Windows, the sooner the better. Take the time to hop around, mess with shit, figure out exactly what feels good to you to use. Then you'll have more time to play and do whatever.

No, we are omnivorus, meanwhile microsoft shills only eat 100% unprocessed dog shit.
It's not our fault that your system sucks. That you have a shit ton of speed issues and broken updates. It's not our fault that you *need* to sperg out everytime someone names a better os than what you're using.

There are problems with using linux, but the thing is that they actually get fixed unlike many other windows problems that still occure to this day ever since xp. (Ie : alt+tab = game crash or sometimes you can't do it at all, slow boot time, overall slow system, and many other problems.)

>get unbuntu distro
>program/game doesn't work, but another distro will make it work
>have to install another distro to get the program you want running
>spend hours getting any distro up to par

While I enjoy Linux distros giving you near full customization of your computer/OS, it sometimes isn't worth the trouble. As much as people hate Windows and MS spying on them, at least it works for most people for the most part. The people who are huge advocates for Linux tend to be the exact people you'd expect to have the time to deal with Linux.

There's also the issue of losing a lot of familiar programs like Word or Adobe products for "similar" products usable for Linux. People will claim the Linux version of Photoshop is comparable to the actual Photoshop program but it's like saying store brand cola is the same as Coca Cola. Yea, they're generally the same and serve the purpose of quenching your thirst, but there's something off about the store brand.

Maybe the reason Coca Cola tastes better than the off-brand is just that you're more used to it?
Same with Photoshop.

>Quenches thirst with literal salt water
There's hardly much difference between distros once you peal back their layers of paint. I don't know why anyone would put themselves through ubuntu, but baring some very niche situations that normal users wouldn't see, there's not really anything that runs on one distro, but not another

gimp is objectively garbage compared to photoshop. It might be ok for putting text on reaction images, but virtually no one uses it professionally.

If you want a good example of competitive software that runs on linux, look at krita.

>I don't know why anyone would put themselves through ubuntu
I guess since valve was initially backing them. But they've had second thoughts ever since ubuntu decided they wanted to axe 32 bit binaries.

Mac users are literally vegans tho.

Argumentum ad populum, but it's worth noting Blender and a few other tools actually perform better on Linux. Krtia is for sure an easier program to use, though, and in my experience has better drawpad support

Generally for marketing to normies, companies (used to) use "Ubuntu" interchangeable with Linux. Probably to direct people to the more "friendly" distros. If Valve ever intended on supporting Ubuntu and not Linux proper, then they dropped that ideal almost instantaneously