Gaming has actually seen the biggest improvement on Linux in the last couple of years, check out https://www.protondb.com/ for just how many titles are playable.

I figured that one is mostly solved now between Steam, Bazzite or even just VM Windows ( if you really have to go that route ).

It definitely isn't solved.

Hmm. I might be speaking from a perspective of a more.. restrained gamer ( my last bigger indulgence was BG3 and, while there were issues after updates, drivers tended to solve those eventually ). Any particular titles you have a problem with?

If you are thinking of permanently online games that effectively put malware on your system, I am ok with that not being solved ( but even for those there are ways to go around those restrictions -- which should not be surprise given the nature of cat and mouse game ).

Battlefield 2024 (and the upcoming 6) and all recent Call of Duty games are the obvious ones. And if you're interested in sim racing then device compatibility is a major problem even before you get to launch the game.

> I am ok with that not being solved

Great, good for you? You can't claim a problem is solved and then say "well I don't care" when shown it's not solved.

<< You can't claim a problem is solved and then say "well I don't care" when shown it's not solved.

It is a fair point in that sense so you get full points for argument counter. That said, I personally think gamers, as a demographic, has some responsibility to say.. 'yeah, no. stop being dicks'.

It is not that I don't care exactly. It is that I care too much to allow this crap on my computer.

> I personally think gamers, as a demographic, has some responsibility to say.. 'yeah, no. stop being dicks'

Well you don't play online games. Personally I care a great deal more about cheaters than I do about whether a company (who I already trust to install stuff on my computer) installs stuff on my computer. Cheaters absolutely ruin games.

Hmm. What solution would you propose if you were in a position to do that ( change linux in a way that allows you to play online games like new Battlefield )?

I don't know enough to understand what prevents it I guess. I thought it was a matter of game or anti cheat developers not writing software that will cooperate properly. It's a chicken and egg problem, has been for decades.

Believe me I would love to drop Windows.

That's fair. I don't want to sound too cynical with a reflexive 'money' response. As you note, some of it is indeed a question of software not playing nice together. I have zero solutions for this.

Tbh, it sounds like you may be forced to use a Windows VM ( if you want try 'dropping' windows that way ). Last time I was looking at it, VMs were still fair game, but were starting to be identified as a way to bypass some of the restrictions ( mostly because they were only doing a couple of checks for whether OS is in a VM ). That said, few friends were recently sharing pics suggesting those checks were getting more invasive.

<< Believe me I would love to drop Windows.

Just in case it helps, I went through a major system issue at some point with Windows 7 and once it was clear that CPU/GPU passthrough works surprisingly well ( before nvidia started messing with it after 3060 ), I got a way to ease myself in with better fallback position should my linux install fail somehow. This approach ( OS engaged for a specific purpose ) worked better than dual boot, which in practice was never used. There is some learning curve, but nothing excessive or something that is not well covered online.