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.
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Soon enough it will be a linux exclusive feature*