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Re:With Proton and Steam Play, many Windows games now work o... by criddell on Monday October 29, 2018 @10:01AM (#18327570)
Why not just dual boot to Windows? It's going to be a better experience.
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Re:With Proton and Steam Play, many Windows games now work o... by melling on Monday October 29, 2018 @10:06AM (#18327598)
Hasn't the 2 decades old goal been to be able to run Linux without the need for owning Windows? Windows is still 89% of the desktop market. A free alternative is still a worthy goal.
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Re:With Proton and Steam Play, many Windows games now work o... by criddell on Monday October 29, 2018 @03:57PM (#18330771)
I wouldn't choose Windows Home for Ruby on Rails development for the same reason that I wouldn't choose CentOS for gaming.
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Re:With Proton and Steam Play, many Windows games now work o... by Filligree on Monday October 29, 2018 @10:06AM (#18327597)
Because I don't want to lose my state, and I don't want to have to take ten minutes to switch to doing something useful.
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Re:With Proton and Steam Play, many Windows games now work o... by SmellyGeekBoy on Monday October 29, 2018 @10:32AM (#18327817)
I tried this for a while but I used Windows so infrequently that I was constantly interrupted by updates whenever I did boot it up.
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Re:With Proton and Steam Play, many Windows games now work o... by criddell on Monday October 29, 2018 @01:05PM (#18329076)
Of all the replies to my comment, this is the only one that really makes sense to me. I have a PS4 and every time I want to play a game on it, either the PS4 needs an update or the game does or both.
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Re:With Proton and Steam Play, many Windows games now work o... by snarfy on Monday October 29, 2018 @10:32AM (#18327815)
Well, except for the dual booting part.
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Re:With Proton and Steam Play, many Windows games now work o... by welterde on Monday October 29, 2018 @11:57AM (#18328532)
Or buy only games that have a native Linux port - which is what I do.
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