I don’t really like Windows but it’s for my gaming PC. My laptop does run linux. I don’t know much of anything about 11 and whether it’s better or not.

  • flashgnash@lemm.eeEnglish
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    2 years ago

    Honestly if you’re ok with a little tinkering you can use Linux for gaming nowadays.

    I fully switched about a week ago using NixOS, so far it’s been pretty smooth sailing, and generally better performance than when it ran windows

    Have run overwatch, diablo, modded Minecraft (with shaders) and a bunch of steam games so far.

    Have yet to run epic games on it but I’ve heard it’s pretty seamless with a launcher called heroic (which imo works better than epic’s own one anyway)

    Only games I’ve found that don’t work are because of deliberate effort on the devs’ part (Halo MCC, Roblox and dragon ball breakers)

    • averyfalken@beehaw.orgEnglish
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      2 years ago

      Depending on the game tinkering may not be needed. With proton most of my games except like dead by daylight it was install and press play

      • flashgnash@lemm.eeEnglish
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        1 year ago

        Oh yeah absolutely the only tinkering I’ve really needed to do is make sure I installed steam properly (NixOS) and a little bit of jiggery pokery for battle.net games (though battle.net is actually really good, you just give it a path to the game files and away you go)

          • flashgnash@lemm.eeEnglish
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            1 year ago

            Never tried mint but weirdly enough NixOS has been the easiest distro for me so far, haven’t run into any weird bugs in drivers or my touchpad not working after hibernation etc like I have in Ubuntu based distros

            (Other than the bugs I caused myself that is)