I’ve been thinking about keeping a running windows on the side once I switch my “gaming” system. There’s two things that won’t work well (or at all) on Linux: fully PC-tethered wireless SteamVR with my current hardware (HTC Cosmos Elite), and a ripping software.
I might keep a small windows running for VR (although I’m currently looking into trashing the hardware if a good alternative shows up). For the ripping software, I’ll just stitch a script that uses existing open source software to do roughly the same thing.
And I might just get a small box, like a 200something computer with only Steam and the wireless card, to remote play VR through it, if that’s an option.
Bye bye windows.
its been years since I touched my 200gb windows partition, but it might have something important i might need in future lmao
Oblivion Remaster got me relapsing because I still had leftover game pass subscription. Forgive me my lord. And holy shit Todd managed to stitch Unreal Engine on top of Creation Engine, it’s black magic fuckery. Lots of esp only mods still work like wtf.
I do unfortunately still use it for my VR sim racing. But half of that is because I got a quest 3 as an entry point for VR. I’d love to get one where you don’t have to fiddle around with video compression and WiFi latency.
Same
Forgive me lord, for I have sinned.
The great flood (me not charging my laptop and leaving it in a humid place for 1.5 years) got rid of that (and everything with it), tho
Hey Jesus can you help me get Disco Elysium running on Kubuntu? I would ask for help with Fusion360 but I would probably need your dad’s help with that
There’s FreeCAD.
I try it every couple of months, but as long as it’s faster to boot into a Windows install and start Fusion360 than it is to learn how to make a cube in FreeCAD, I’m going to keep my windows install
FreeCAD isn’t that hard to use. Just different and not as polished.
I dual booted my study pc. Well technically I did. I didn’t use windows for a few months without thinking about it and by then I was too afraid of windows corrupting my linux if I ever booted it. So I effectively just had a Linux machine with half half the disk space. Never had a problem with it though.
I was too afraid of windows corrupting my linux if I ever booted it. So I effectively just had a Linux machine with half half the disk space. Never had a problem with it though.
That’s basically my story, as well.
I eventually had a close call where Windows almost booted by misclick - and it scared me it was going to mess up the Linux install I actually use - and I decided the stress wasn’t worth it, to me, to keep a fallback copy of Windows around.
i can play stardew valley natively in linux. there’s no reason to dual boot.
When Linux can actually do everything I want to do I’ll gladly stop using Windows. It’s not there yet and a lot of what it can do is still janky.
There are applications that still don’t have a proper Linux port, or any at all. Or maybe the ones that exist are cumbersome to use. I really hate that people downvote you for pointing this out. If you were wrong, Linux would have a much larger share already.
I understand that some people have alternatives for everything they use; I’m happy for them, and I wish to be them. But assuming that if I can do everything I want on Linux in the same quality/convenience/whatever, then others must, as well…
Yeah it’s pretty frustrating to hear so many touting it as a replacement and then being met with hostility when you try to adopt it yourself and run into problems. Like I expect there to be some friction moving to a different system but when you’re hitting roadblocks every step of the way on what to you are everyday tasks in Windows it gets tiresome quick and I haven’t even tried to game on it yet.
but when you’re hitting roadblocks every step of the way on what to you are everyday tasks in Windows
Did you buy hardware with Linux pre-installed?
We need to be better about clarifying that, for apples to apples experience, it’s best to buy hardware with Linux pre-installed.
Or is AutoCAD one of your everyday tasks? We all have different definitions of “everyday”, but I haven’t had an issue web browsing on Linux in ages.
As long as it’s single player or you’re lucky to not want to play League, PUBG, CS2 or Valorant (or RS6 or… basically any of the biggest ones), you should be fine, and there are plenty of games working under Linux. If you do… Well, not now or in the past 20 years.
League ran fine for many years on Linux. The problem is Tencent, not Linux.
Per Riot’s own stats, the rates of scripting in competitive league went way up AFTER they rolled out Vanguard, so it’s not about anti-cheat either.
I remember having played it on Ubuntu around S3-S4. It didn’t look the exact same, but it was definitely playable (could have been just different graphics settings). A few weeks ago I found a comment saying it’s not playable and/or buggy as hell now. I wonder what broke it.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯ been daily driving Linux for at least a decade now…
But I haven’t found a way to run my HTC Vive on my nvidia gpu and the updater software for my car on Linux… So I still have a dual boot for those
updater software for my car
Can I just point out that there was a point in time in living memory where this statement would be utterly deranged? (And it’ll probably soon be unusual again because of OTA updates…)
That point in time is forever for me. I’ll spend a few thousand on a really good bike before I buy a car that needs regular software updates
Hard agree…
Oh, it still is.
I’m so sorry Jesus, I just wanted to play some tarkov
Believe it or not, straight to hell.
I know it’s Linux memes but is better than using a bit of both instead of but trying Linux at all. We need more casual people to try Linux. Not just diehards.
The Steam Deck is at least trying to attract the casual users in.
diehards really kill the community. I think the guys from suckles are most guilty of this
But what if I’m on the fence and I’m trying out Linux?
This is allowed.
See another stupid repost
Sink or swim! Embrace chaos! Constant confusion builds character.
Sadly I have to waste 512gb of ssd for windows because oculus rift cv1 drivers are not finished and haven’t been worked on for a year I think…
Didn’t expect to find another CV1 usr in the wild.
I wish there was a way to use bottles or whatever to use the damn thing until an affordable and usable replacement finally appears.
I’m building a dedicated windows VR gaming PC that can live in my shed so I don’t have to dual boot windows to use my racing sim.
Yes Linux and proton have come a long way, and for the most part is more than good enough. But for certain things (like my HP Reverb G2, or proprietary sim racing hardware drivers) it’s just easier to pirate windows
Shed? What quality shed do you have that you feel comfortable using it for VR?
I still turn it on every few months. It’s helpful to make sure that kernel works fine and it’s just my VGA port making trouble. Also some beta stuff doesn’t work on Linux. When friends call me to play a game that doesn’t work properly after a quick install I don’t have the time to search on forums. If someone could tell me how to run pirated Hades II I would be glad. It only start up once and 2nd time it crashes. I’m not gonna pay 30€ for it nor finish it in one breath.
Yeah, I dual boot Windows
's ass outta my system >:C
