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290 points XzetaU8 | 1 comments | 23 Jul 25 09:33 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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jksflkjl3jk3 ◴[23 Jul 25 12:43 UTC] No.44658589[source]▶
I can never understand how anyone with an interest in tech hasn't switched to Linux for their personal desktop/laptop at some point in the last 20+ years.

Why would you want to use a closed source OS controlled by a corporation with a past as checkered as Microsoft's?

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shevis ◴[23 Jul 25 12:46 UTC] No.44658612[source]▶
Gaming. Linux gaming has come a long way (especially thanks to the steam deck) but the vast majority of games are still only released on Windows.
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freeone3000 ◴[23 Jul 25 12:54 UTC] No.44658677[source]▶
Right, but thanks to Proton that’s just not relevant? Blue Prince, Clair Obscure, Lost Records, The Alters, Doom: The Dark Ages, Oblivion Remastered, South of Midnight… all run just fine on Steam on linux.
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vips7L ◴[23 Jul 25 14:32 UTC] No.44659662[source]▶
Every single game you mentioned has some sort of tinker step reported on protondb even though it may be marked platinum. Here’s the one for oblivion:

    DRI_PRIME=1 WINEDLLOVERRIDES="xaudio2_7=n,b" PULSE_LATENCY_MSEC=90 %command%
Or maybe it’s this one that the next user reported…

    DXIL_SPIRV_CONFIG=wmma_fp8_hack FSR4_UPGRADE=1 game-performance %command%
I personally don’t want to have to do stuff like that to get them to work.
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1. bigstrat2003 ◴[23 Jul 25 15:05 UTC] No.44660054{3}[source]▶
I haven't played most of those games, but I can at least attest that I could run Clair Obscur with no tinkering whatsoever. A lot of times even if some people had to tinker with a game, you will be just fine and not have to tinker.