If this happens, will it be a mass exodus to Linux/Mac? Or will people just live with it? The fact that the Steam Deck has shown great promise in playing games on Linux has made me reconsider Windows yet again.
If this happens, will it be a mass exodus to Linux/Mac? Or will people just live with it? The fact that the Steam Deck has shown great promise in playing games on Linux has made me reconsider Windows yet again.
Actually, if you’re interested, gaming on Linux is great nowadays.
Nvidia GPUs are not really well supported, but they work.
However, if you game using Intel integrated graphics or an AMD GPU, the performance is perfect.
On steam I have yet to encounter a game that does not run well using Proton.
My 1050ti had no problems on Ubuntu 20.04lts. I know if you want all the new bells and whistles on the new Nvidia cards that will be a disappointment. I think Nvidia has issues with Wayland, but X11 works
How does Proton work? Is it another application like wine?
It’s literally a fork of wine.
But from a practical perspective, you tell steam to start the game and it starts it, installing and using proton as necessary. If the developers haven’t configured it you have to first click a button in preferences that says “use proton” (paraphrased), but that’s it.
Also Steam can be configured to use Proton by default for non-native games :3
It isn’t just a fork, its a collection of tools and patches around wine tailored for a specific purpose.
DXVK, VKD3D and other components aren’t part of Wine or Proton’s Wine builds, for example. They’re extra tools used on-top of Wine.
How well are non-Steam games supported…?
It depends, the Heroic games launcher works well for GOG and Epic, and I’ve heard good things about Lutris too. For other games with their own launcher, you may have to follow certain instructions to get them to run.
Games like valorant are broken due to anticheat, but it’s basically malware and I wouldn’t install it anyway.
I would love to use linux for everything I do on my computer but there are too many games I play that use anticheat that isn’t supported sadly. The use of intrusive kernel level anticheat will hopefully be killed off soon – but for now I have to keep a windows install so I can boot into it for those games.
Also VR I didn’t hear much good about on Linux. Especially if you don’t use native SteamVR Headsets. Also there is a game i do play which works with Linux fine itself but the video players do not.
And how well do 3dsMax and Solidworks work? Cause Blender was the first modeling program I ever tried and couldn’t stand the UI, so that’s straight up not an option after 20 years of experience.
Depending on how long ago you tried blender the UI has improved significantly. As far as parametric CAD goes, supported options are still limited. For use in wine someone is working on making easy installers for fusion and solidworks that supposedly work but I just use a virtual machine.
Blender has come a LONG way in 20 years. I think it beats 3ds max in most categories these days.
For CAD I haven’t tried solidworks, but I did get Fusion to run. (Also fwiw, Onshape is surprisingly good, and is browser based)