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    • coffinwood@feddit.de
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      1 year ago

      Windows runs 10 out of 10 games, Linux does 8 of which 4 only barely run at all.

      Don’t get me wrong: Windows really is the worst OS, except all the others.

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        I know there’s more to PC games than just steam, but honestly the only issue I’ve had playing games on the steamdeck is when there’s some horrible anticheat service required by the game.

        I guess the problem is that the games with anticheat also tend to be quite popular ones with some people

      • 🦄🦄🦄@feddit.de
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        1 year ago

        I thought the same thing until a couple weeks ago, then tried out EndeavourOS which is based on Arch and comes with Nvidia drivers. It’s been awesome and I’ve been able to play whatever I want.

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        My favourite game was always hacking around in Wine to make games work. Once I got them working I lost interest and moved on to the next game… Now I don’t have time to play games. :(

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        1 year ago

        That stat about games doesn’t track for me

        Most Windows games i try run fine on linux

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              And I’d almost bet these two to three titles run fine in Windows which is exactly the point: what is Linux’s advantage here concerning gaming?

              When I want to play a certain title I don’t want something similar because that derivate runs on Linux. That’s maybe okay for casual games like a round of Solitaire where the Linux alternatives are fine.

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                I’d almost bet these two to three titles run fine in Windows

                Windows 95 maybe… these games were old AF. Nothing made within the past 20 years has this issue.

                The only games that don’t run on Linux now, are games that don’t run on Windows, either

                The advantage? I genuinely have a much easier time setting up games on Linux

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      Because it does everything I need it to do and if I run into issues I can’t solve myself I know that just because of the number of people using it the problem will be known and a solution will exist.

      I don’t mind playing with Linux on my RPi, but having to use it daily and always having to use command lines to deal with things (thus having to search for the right command line every time) gets tiring.

      For the most part Windows just works out of the box and there are things I would much rather do with my time than searching the depth of the internet to find that one person that had the same problem as me and that might or might not have found a solution to their issue…

      And as other people mentioned, my computer is mostly used for gaming these days so it’s easier to use the platform that’s the must widely supported for that purpose.