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Re:Valve Rolls Out Wine-Based “Proton” for Running Windows G... by andybak on Wednesday August 22, 2018 @05:34AM (#17817471)
This...

It takes me a good 20m to reboot. 5m for the actual reboot and 15m to check to see if I'll lose any work.

Also - I tend to multitask. Dip into games, dip into work, browsing etc. It's not a concerted change of mode so closing one side of my mind down for a single purpose just doesn't work for me.

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Re:Valve Rolls Out Wine-Based “Proton” for Running Windows G... by nottorp on Wednesday August 22, 2018 @10:21AM (#17818846)
This this this. Rebooting is a-ok if all you use the computer for is games. But then you don't need to reboot because you're in Windows already.

If you use the computer for multiple purposes, rebooting to play a game will disrupt your environment way too much.

While I do dual boot, I have booted Windows like 2 times this year. The rest, I played ported games. There are a lot of them.

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