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Windows 11 has made the “clean Windows install” an oxymoron (arstechnica.com)
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[–] 69 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Downgraded my new desktop computer from Win11 to Win10 this weekend. Still considering if I shouldn't just go back to Linux now that Valve has made gaming on Linux viable...

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  • [–] 27 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Have you checked if your games are supported on ProtonDB?

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  • [–] 11 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Worst case scenario, you could always set up a dual boot situation if there are just one or two games you play that aren't supported. That's what I'll probably end up doing on my main rig eventually since the only game I'd really miss that's not supported is ESO.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    AFAIK ESO is working fine.

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  • [–] 17 points 2 years ago

    I'm holding out as long as I can on Win10 for gaming. It's my hope that Linux gaming will be compatible with most of my games by the time I have to choose between Win11 and Linux. Last time I checked there were a few games I was interested in that weren't completely compatible with SteamOS.

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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Baldurs Gate 3 has been working great for me on steam proton

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    It's working pretty well on my steam deck for me but not without a few bugs. Nothing game breaking though. (I also had some different bugs on windows 10 so not sure how much is platform specific)

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I want to switch to gaming on linux so bad. Just a few weeks ago I ran into a sudden issue where any source game I launched in windows would crash my graphics driver, totally unrecoverable without restarting the PC (even shift+ctrl+win+b did nothing) and on some restarts I found myself being forced to boot on integrated graphics and fully reinstall drivers. Total shitshow, started while I was midgame and came out of nowhere, couldn't figure anything out.

    I finally gave up and installed mint, got steam set up and downloading, started moving over some my backed up files... only to find out that a thing I'd ordered to make my VR headset wireless wasn't going to have Linux drivers. I was gonna have to dual boot windows at the very least. And I've had other experiences where Windows updates have broken Grub and forced me to do reinstalls as well, so...

    The day can't come fast enough where companies just build stuff for Linux. The Windows UI gets worse with every release, and it's really not as bug-free as people seem to think, it just has market share and companies tend to build for it by default. Completely self-fulfilling prophecy.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    I was gonna have to dual boot windows at the very least. And I’ve had other experiences where Windows updates have broken Grub and forced me to do reinstalls as well, so…

    You didn't have to reinstall. You just have to boot from a live USB and then run like three commands to fix it. But yes, that is indeed unironically more work to figure out and safely do.

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