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Re:Windows 11 Pro will soon require a Microsoft Account duri... by AnIdiotOnTheNet on Friday February 18, 2022 @03:05PM (#30390383)
Agreed on all counts. Proton (and WINE in general, really) is an impressive piece of work that has done wonders to make software available on Linux Desktop, but it is not a perfect solution. Personally, I'm sick enough of Microsoft's shit that I'm now willing to put up with Linux Desktop's shit instead and if that means I miss a few games, I'll live with it. I don't play competitive online games anyway.
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Re:Windows 11 Pro will soon require a Microsoft Account duri... by christkv on Friday February 18, 2022 @03:15PM (#30390480)
A friend virtualized his hardware and just assigned a dedicated gpu to the windows vm under Linux and gets close to native performance for games.
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Re:Windows 11 Pro will soon require a Microsoft Account duri... by giobox on Friday February 18, 2022 @03:18PM (#30390512)
This approach is a lot more hassle to setup than Proton, but it does yield some really great performance and ~100% game compatibility. I've been planning to go this way for my next desktop build (Windows gaming VM with native GPU pass-through).
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Re:Windows 11 Pro will soon require a Microsoft Account duri... by FreeFull on Friday February 18, 2022 @06:04PM (#30392355)
Not quite 100% compatibility, since some games intentionally detect if they're running in a VM, and refuse to launch, for anti-cheat purposes.
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