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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Fair point but my games only run on windows.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Try a little Proton. There's also Lutris. There hasn't been a game I own that I haven't been able to play on Linux.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Unfortunately, two of my most played games (R6:Siege and Cod MW2) can't run on linux, and last time I checked Visual Studio also.

[–] [email protected] -5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

visual studio is native on linux

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hmm, I can't seem to find it. Maybe you were thinking about Visual Studio Code? I know for sure that runs natively on linux.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

yes actually. didnt realize there was another visual studio

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah, not that great of a naming convetion with that one. At least my servers still run linux, so I have somewhere to fall back to when windows gets on my nerves :-D

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Proton is amazing as long as you don't get bit by anticheat, which thankfully is getting better.

Thankfully I don't play many games with anticheat so almost the entirety of my game library runs on my Linux install.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Subnautica multiplayer mod nitrox :( Ik its a reach to support but its literally the only thing holding me to windows

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Same I just had this conversation last week with a coworker

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Yeah, that sucks. I'm not much of a gamer myself. I know there are workarounds, but I probably would stay with Windows for games too if that was the case.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I’ll probably install a second SSD for Linux so I can dual boot for development.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Humorous, but I don't think that really applies here.