What I don't understand is that Anti-Cheat systems like BattlEye work with Proton, it just requires the devs to flick a switch that says "Make this work on Proton" but they don't. It's so fucking dumb. Also gamepass can't be used on Linux, there's no Wine support for UWP apps, and the Cloud system doesn't work in Chile so there also goes a big chunk of my library yay
Part of the reason why they do it is because it's a lot easier to hack in games on Linux with their anti cheats unable to access the kernel. So you will have a lot of people on Windows spoofing their machine to appear Linux to get the easier Anti Cheat to get around. Developers then have to decide if it's worth trying to keep Linux support with the increased level of hackers or just to cut them out, which more times then often we get cut out since we're a minority. As Linux keeps growing or if new alternatives to anti cheat get developed we should see more support for Linux gamers.
I almost never use the terminal. If you want to get a good idea on how it's like running Linux for gaming I recommend looking at the YouTube channels Mattscreative and Linux Next.
October 14 is coming up :P
Not going to happen :p But Microsoft is offering extended support for like $30 for another year. Also think there are some people doing unofficial support for Windows 10 past the deadline. It will just become an issue when the programs you use no longer support Windows 10
Same, now I only use distros that make software management easy with their package gui. I only want to use the the cl for things like ffmpeg where it is much more efficient to use it that way.
I don't think I could. Most of the computer games I play, need Windows.
Yes, that's the standard argument that companies give you, but the reality is that they don't allow you to play because they don't have full control of your computer.
I remember back in the day you could customize and access everything in a Windows OS.
Before you try Arch, you may want to try Garuda. @Leon recommended it in the other linux thread, and I am loving it so far. It is closer to arch than manjaro (which I have been using), but still has nice gui assistants for updates, and even setting up the stuff you are talking about as you can see (although I don't use wine or steam, so can't comment how well it works)
Steam works fine, wine from what i tried worked fine too but i game mostly through lutris's wine or emulators.
I have only tried the garuda gamer assistant for a few things. Retroarch, PCSX2, and mame installed perfectly, but duckstation threw a git error (forget what it was) and had to use octopi to install it (which worked fine and wasn't a big deal). I'm sure it all can be made to work, but I was commenting on how easy the assistant makes the setup for those applications: I misspoke. That's great it makes steam and wine easy! Like I said, duckstation gave me trouble, so I'm not sure how easy the assistant makes everything, and I can't comment on things I haven't tried.
One warning i will give you is that melon ds's linux version is unstable, at least for me, that said the windows version ironically works fine through lutris which i used to play metal max 2 reloaded in from start to finish.
I know I just use a separate ssd with Batocera to run my roms. Though if I was to run roms on my main desktop I would end up just grabbing the emulators off flathub and run the flatpak versions of them so I won't have to do any set up to make them work on whichever distro I am on.
I'm about to triboot on my couch gaming rig. 4tb ssd running ChimaeraOS for steam, 2tb SSD running Batocera for retro emulators, and getting a 512gb SSD today to set up Fedora mainly to run rEFInd
Yea flatpaks are great, I use a few on my manjaro install (the way manjaro releases packages makes it sometimes the only real option which is one thing that made me consider getting away from manjaro, despite how much I like it ;_;), but some make me paranoid, even if it is something non-critical like an emulator. For example, I do not use the dolphin emulator flatpak; it worries me it has full system read access and ones like duckstation work just fine without that. Fortunately, I find the dolphin core works perfect in retroarch, so don't need it anyway. Maybe I'm just paranoid?
