Re:Microsoft begins showing an anti-Firefox ad in the Window...
by sslayer on Monday February 10, 2020 @12:49PM
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Steam with Proton and ProtonDb was a game changer. What runs native in Linux vs using Proton is like night and day
Re:Microsoft begins showing an anti-Firefox ad in the Window...
by xnyan on Monday February 10, 2020 @03:01PM
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Proton is fantastic, but you’re still saying I am going have to accept less compatibility and more work than on windows windows. Not worth it for me, especially with an nvidia GPU. I understand that’s mostly to blame on Nvidia but it’s still the reality of the situation.
Re:Microsoft begins showing an anti-Firefox ad in the Window...
by jjdredd on Tuesday February 11, 2020 @12:38AM
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Same reason for me. If not for games, I would have switched a long time ago. My favourite game runs only on windows and
requires an anti-cheat that runs only on windows. So I just dual-boot.
For me the main reason is games. Dual booting is really annoying and jumping through the 15 hoops it takes to run games on Linux doesn't seem worth it considering how poorly games seem to run natively on Windows already. It's not a question of "there are no games for Linux" but rather "the game I want to play is not on Linux".
This one point is basically the anchor that all the other usage is centered around for me. Linux simply doesn't offer something amazing enough over what Windows does to warrant all this trouble for games. If the games I wanted to play ran decently on Linux with few problems then I'd probably switch over. But considering that MS is now doing that Xbox game pass subscription even on Windows, I think the chance of switching is becoming less and less likely.