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  • nul9o9@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    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.

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        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

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        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!

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      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.