Comment on Microsoft Will Charge for Windows 10 Security Updates in 2025

Evotech@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• GladiusB@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  The problem with Linux builds is game compatibility. Many are windows only. Sure you can use Wine or Proton, but that isn’t everyone. And they don’t seem stable for long.

  Steam UI is a good step forward.

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  • Evotech@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I’ll just not play those. But anticheats might suck

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    • GladiusB@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      There are many games that have compatibility issues. I would check for your favorites first. Elden ring, cyberpunk, many others

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• Blisterexe@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Why wait?

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  • Evotech@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Running windows 10 no issues so far. And heard Wayland has Nvidia issues

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    • KrokanteBamischijf@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Not just Wayland.

      Every experience I’ve had so far with running anything Linux on Nvidia hardware has been unpredictable to say the least. Not just personal experience but those around me as well. Somehow it always comes down to driver compatibility issues, and there is a reason Torvalds used such strong words when describing the developer experience in dealing with Nvidia.

      And these problems will likely persist until they decide to fully publish the source for their drivers.

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      • lemmyvore@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        All the trouble I never had was with ATI/AMD cards, never with Nvidia.

        And they’ll never open source their drivers because they don’t give a shit about half a percent of market share. The only reason they even bother maintaining a free Linux driver is because we provide free testing, which they can use for their professional cards where the big money is.

        But I never understood people’s obsession with Nvidia bring open source, it’s not like it’s the only proprietary Linux driver, or the only one with incompatible license etc.

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    • Blisterexe@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Tbf it depends what you do, but some distros just work with Nvidia apparently

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• force@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Yeah good luck with games, support on Linux has gotten way better over the years but it’s still severely lacking (mainly due to anticheats or game developers intentionally not supporting Linux) and performance on a lot of games is just worse than on Windows (on some games it’s the same or better though).

  Steam Deck gives me hope for Linux gaming but I don’t think it’ll ever have as much support as Windows gaming, in fact a surprisingly high amount of games have a Linux detection system that block Linux players because fuck you I guess…

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