Not sure if you're joking or just uninformed, but gaming on linux, even with cancer that Nvidia is pushing out, has been great for a while now, especially with Proton (the thing Valve is pushing out to give Linux support to Windows-only games)
I know gaming on Linux works good and iirc the steamdeck runs on arch but the games i play dont work, so its just a me problem. Im not really good informed though.
I myself was not aware that SteamOS is based on arch.
I guess we're all silly people, that's all.
Been using Linux as main driver for a while now, since I got pissed about Windows eating 10gb of my ram while idle (cpu at 2%, GPU at 0%, no viruses, I checked), and never looked back. Only real kick in the balls is some multiplayer games which I can live without, and the convenience of Word/Office suite. Sure, I can use Libre office or Google docs, or even web version of Office, but it's very inconvenient and misses some features that I need for my studies.
Eh, most multiplayer FPS games (CS2, Apex, Helldivers 2) run great on linux. Valorant, COD, Fortnite, R6 don't.
In this case, I just make a partition, install windows10 there, no updates, no bullshit, download a game and play with friends. It's a rather simple life. I use office on that instance too.
a while ago i started playing league of legends with my friends, but i don't like very much the idea of vanguard on my personal computer, so i just let it go
It gives enough access that if someone found a backdoor they could maybe write a virus to your bios. This is rare and a lot (probably all modern ones) of mobos will block this. Although the way they do it is also hackable, MSI had some security keys stolen which might make this possible for older bios versions.Typically the purpose of this is to reinfect your drove after you wipe it, but it could be used to infect other partitions/disks in the system.
Again this probably isn't possible on your computer. But vanguard has access to absolutely everything including any random chips that can have firmware on them which the OS can flash, and those are shared between partitions obviously. So the answer to your question is no probably not, but it's probably technically possible on some machines. But an attacker would need to find a vulnerability in vanguard first.
Can it harm you? No, probably not. But it's still a direct backdoor to someone. And honestly? I'd rather not risk that. Companies can not be trusted with any of our data, unfortunately.
Damn i thought about dual bootung Linux but dual booting windows didnt come to my mind.
I mainly play ow and ready or not, im gonna check if they work (the other games should run without a problem), definitely switching to Linux as my main os, just dont know when.
One way to look at it is that it'll never change unless the people change first; corporations will never make the first move. Also client-side anti-cheat is basically giving them control over your system, more than you have yourself.
since I got pissed about Windows eating 10gb of my ram while idle
Do you not understand how ram caching works? Windows isn't "eating" that ram, it's holding it as a disk cache. It's much faster to pull from ram than the disk. Plus there's runtime application data that doesn't need to be written to disk. If at any point a program needed that ram it would be flushed and available without you even noticing.
Yeah, unfortunately, no. I run a resource-intensive program, and the ram is still being used by windows processes, while my game is chugging. I researched this, and it's just a big fuck you - only solution was to move to Linux for me.
Only thing stopping games from working at this point is anti-cheat and even then, its because most devs won't enable the Linux support flag when adding anti-cheat
Gaming on Linux is really solid these days. Single player games basically just work. Multiplayer is hit or miss depending on the anti cheat but lots of big ones run well.
It's sometimes not just you, unfortunately. Destiny 2, for example, will not support Linux, so I would have to set up either a dual boot sitch, or a box inside of Linux I can run D2 on. I'm sure someone will let me know shortly of a solution lmao.
Thank you, but I have been using Linux since 2006. 'Twas a jest, the games I listed are all free and open-source software and very much so are natively available on Linux.
It's playable For the most part... But even then the games are hat DO work only run at 75%... You might think a game is buggy or frustrating when in reality it's just Linux.
Have you tried playing destiny 2? Halo? Rainbow six siege? DAYZ? Literally any game with easy anti-cheat like Helldivers?
Since I'm not interested in those games, no. But I did mention in another comment that some multiplayer games do not work due to anti-cheat, which is proven both by your link, and comment itself.
Since I mostly play single-player games, it's great. And yes, should I want to play an unsupported game, I can always dual boot windows - it isn't crazy hard.
Doesn't Linux struggle with having more than 1 monitor, especially at different refresh rates for gaming?
EDIT: Interesting responses. I recently had someone move over to Linux since he was tired of Windows but he complained that he struggled with having multiple monitors during gaming (Where one would be the main game, and the other would be his desktop).
It used to be a problem. A lot of development effort has been put in and now it seems ironed out for the most part, at least if you’re on KDE or Gnome.
And that is why Microsoft and all of this companies can and will do whatever they want with their products, they know that the average user only cares about convenience, entertainment, etc. and is willing to give their privacy away for it.
People get mad about this but everyone is going to use it anyway, because it's more convenient than the alternative. Lol, lmao even.
Everyone wants to complain but nobody wants to do shit for themselves, they want daddy big company or daddy government to be the ones doing it for them.
Although to be fair, there is people that need to use a specific professional software, and sometimes with some obscure piece of hardware too, and that is most of the time only available for Windows, not even Mac.
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Soon enough it will be a linux exclusive feature*