💾 Archived View for station.martinrue.com › mathpunk › 372e20694aa544d9a37d0038e5c7238f captured on 2023-09-08 at 17:03:42. Gemini links have been rewritten to link to archived content
⬅️ Previous capture (2023-07-22)
-=-=-=-=-=-=-
Think I'm gonna end up dual booting with windows after all. For one it doesn't really impact me since I have more hard drive space than I will ever use. But for two, I currently have absolutely zero experience with gaming on Linux, and some of the games I'm pretty excited about don't even show up on ProtonDB, so I think it's best to keep windows around "just in case."
2 months ago
Thanks for the feedback, all. I'm probably going to dual boot just in case I end up in a situation where I need windows for some reason, but I'm definitely gonna check if my games run on Linux first, and I'm definitely willing to move to pure Linux if I'm confident I can manage it! · 2 months ago
I dual booted on my gaming PCs to start with, tried out all my games on Linux. most of them worked and the ones that didn't at the time weren't worth booting into windows. then the deck happened and even those games became playable. after 6 months of not booting into windows I deleted its partition and never looked back. · 2 months ago
You can't go that wrong either way and either solution has its downsides. You'll probably spend more time fiddling with configs in Linux, but when I dual booted Windows the main annoyance was having to catch up on updates when I just wanted to play games. · 2 months ago
@mathpunk It's up to you if you want to have Windows installed, but I would try running some of the games you have questions about through Proton anyway! Almost everything works. In fact it's pretty uncommon to find something that won't work these days, especially if they're older games. · 2 months ago
I'll probably end up doing a fresh install with Windows 10 Enterprise LTSC 2019, since its my understanding that it will still recieve security updates until 2029, and I'm pretty sure I won't be able to afford a Windows 11 compatible machine by 2025. · 2 months ago