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1725 points taubek | 4 comments | 27 Mar 23 05:20 UTC | HN request time: 0.688s | 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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lexandstuff ◴[27 Mar 23 07:14 UTC] No.35323762[source]▶
This will surely be the year of the Linux desktop.
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1. MagicMoonlight ◴[27 Mar 23 14:07 UTC] No.35326837[source]▶
I can run pretty much any game out of the box, even random games that nobody would ever have optimised for linux.

The time of the desktop has come.

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2. zamalek ◴[27 Mar 23 14:50 UTC] No.35327423[source]▶
It sometimes does a better job than Windows at running Windows games.
3. ChickenNugger ◴[27 Mar 23 15:43 UTC] No.35328143[source]▶
Serious question: Did you play the Diablo IV open beta weekend? (It's live for 4 more hours).

I did, on my Windows 10 box. The issue isn't random games that no one would ever have optimized, the issue is bleeding edge games that most people want to play, and play right now.

If you didn't, can you? If (the royal) you can't, get started in the time remaining, download speeds allowing, the year of the Linux desktop isn't here.

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4. COGlory ◴[27 Mar 23 19:35 UTC] No.35331250[source]▶
From the great grandparent - they did play the Diablo 4 beta on Ubuntu.

>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.