It's been a hot minute since I've used a linux distro for personal use, but I've got a laptop that probably needs to move over. That being said, I would still LIKE to play some windows exclusive games on that machine. Is wine still the go to for fudging compatibility? How good is it? Will I be able to download windows only steam games with relatively low effort for such uses?

[–] AmberOverdrive@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 days ago

There's also Lutris, https://lutris.net/, which uses wine and other software underneath, but with a nice GUI and a lot of scripts to further make playing your games on Linux easier.

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[–] cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 2 days ago (2 children)

hey i'm trying to get my parents moved over to mint :)

[–] LeFantome@programming.dev 1 points 1 day ago

Moved my mother a few days ago (LMDE). Printer too. Took about an hour.

Most of it was getting apps setup, moving pictures over, and making sure she was already logged into things like Facebook so she did not have to remember the passwords after I left.

Her biggest complaint has been that her friends email addresses do mot automatically pop-up in Thunderbird. They will once she has sent or received email from them. So this will pass.

[–] absGeekNZ@lemmy.nz 1 points 2 days ago

I moved mine over about 2 years ago.

Only issue was getting the printer to work.... Took a few hours.

[–] gaja@lemm.ee 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Just started the switch to fedora. It's actually really good. I played minecraft with my spouse and after turning off mouse acceleration, it felt great. My favorite games are all on steam. Only things that are rough is professional software. Also, my $250 elgato capture card doesn't support Linux. Windows is definitely going to need to stick around for me.

[–] domi@lemmy.secnd.me 8 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Also, my $250 elgato capture card doesn't support Linux.

Which one? We use a few Elgato capture cards with OBS on Linux at work and all of them are bog-standard UVC video devices.

I played minecraft with my spouse

Check out Prism Launcher if you play Java Minecraft. It allows you to easily manage multiple Minecraft versions. Modded, unmodded, different versions, etc..

[–] gaja@lemm.ee 2 points 2 days ago (2 children)

4k60

Prism is the best

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[–] moosetwin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I tried switching a few days ago but the performance was so awful for some reason, ended up having to switch back (linux mint)

[–] parpol@programming.dev 3 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Sounds like something went wrong with the installation. Mint is overall more performant than windows. What slowed down?

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[–] Bat@programming.dev 1 points 2 days ago

Similar with me, but Kubuntu. Installed Steam and started downloading some games, and the whole system became almost unusable until it had finished. Also I put some music on (YouTube), and the audio was slightly slowing down and speeding up.

I have used Linux for decades for servers, and I really want to move to Desktop Linux, but at least once a year I try and there is some major issue that stops me.

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