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1725 points taubek | 3 comments | 27 Mar 23 05:20 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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kstenerud ◴[27 Mar 23 06:10 UTC] No.35323424[source]▶
I finally made the switch to Ubuntu Mate on Friday and WOW, color me impressed!

The only reason I stuck with Windows on my desktop machine for so long was gaming, and the last time I tried switching over was 10 years ago. Spoiler: it was a shitshow.

This time, things are MUCH better! The Mate desktop environment is simple, stable, clean, does the job and gets out of your way (kinda reminds me of Windows 2000). Steam's Proton makes running games a breeze. All of my favorites just work. I could even run battle.net as a non-steam game, USING Steam's Proton!

And the kicker? Blizzard's recently opened beta of Diablo 4 just worked. As in, I clicked install, clicked play, and it just worked. Perfectly. As if I were still running under Windows. I've never before seen such sorcery.

So bye bye Windows, except when I'm running one as a VM.

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birracerveza ◴[27 Mar 23 07:40 UTC] No.35323948[source]▶
Sadly there's still a few very heavy hitters that make Linux a no-go for some.

Genshin Impact and Fortnite are unusable.

Unreal Editor requires Windows too.

And I don't know how usable VR is on Windows.

Plus the random assortment of windows programs for which there could be a Linux equivalent but you really need that one that only works on Windows for some reason.

But at this point it's just a matter of time, I guess.

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1. mort96 ◴[27 Mar 23 08:36 UTC] No.35324305[source]▶
I think the Unreal Engine editor supports Linux now? This page seems to claim so: https://www.unrealengine.com/en-US/download

Not that this takes away from your overall point.

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2. toastal ◴[27 Mar 23 08:42 UTC] No.35324336[source]▶
Most of the games now are always online and some of them opt for home-grown, Microsoft Windows-only kernel anti-cheat detection rather than working with the bigger engines that Valve worked with to get said anti-cheat systems running on Linux.

Others refuse to support Linux thinking it’ll bring more bug reports, but there was an interview in recent years where the game company realized the Linux community knew they could submit bug reports, they submitted good bug reports (that affected all platforms too), and didn’t see software as a black box for consumption but a community effort. They ended up praising the Linux community for their bug reports even if the number of reports were higher.

3. birracerveza ◴[27 Mar 23 08:50 UTC] No.35324387[source]▶
Huh, what the hell?

Apparently it happened in July 2022.

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2022/07/unreal-engine-5-editor...

These last few years have been moving way too fast, whew.

Thanks for telling me.