Tbf proton evolving fast as he doing, soon i won't even will need windows beside my workplace notebook
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Switched to Linux a couple years ago and at this point it is rare that a game doesn't "just work" and even rarer when it still won't work after trying other versions of proton in the Steam compatibility settings for the game.
Depending on if there is a specific game you know doesn't work that is a deal breaker for you, it might be fine at this point to switch. Just throwing that out there. You may not need more compatibility than what is available.
Yeah I think a lot of people don't understand how far it's come. Often even games that Steam lists as "unsupported" will work with some very light tinkering.
Using wine and Proton, I've been able to play old windows games that haven't worked on real windows for over two decades.
How moddings tool like MO2 and the mods from nexus are behaving on Linux ?
Also, PCVR, playing HALF LIFE ALYX, Arizona Sunshine, OpenMW VR are huge deal breakers for me
I don't think I've actually played any of those so I can't speak to them but hopefully someone else can. There is a website you can check compatibility on although I don't know if it includes non-games and/or tools. Arizona Sunshine looks like it's fine: https://www.protondb.com/search?q=arizona+sunshine
If it's gold or higher it'll almost certainly play without issue. Silver will very likely play if you tweak the compatibility settings to change proton versions (go to game options in steam > compatibility > change the version. Bronze is hit or miss, you'll likely be able to get it to work but it might require more work. Borked is of course...borked.
Anyways, someone else can probably answer those games specifically but if not you can use the website to check.
So more ppl are re-purposing old, legacy win7 machines despite security risk...
Completely clueless about anything linux or floss in that matter wether even if there where lighter distros with better hardware support & enough apps for everyday office needs & more.
Like win7 can't even run any UWP apps, photoshop or steam anymore.
It's great livin' in 2025
they’re using AI to generate system level code?
holy shit this is the dumbest way to destroy civilization
Yes indeed.
Any chance this will lead Microsoft to re-evaluate its use of AI?
Why should we hope for that? Let’s use this moment to embrace Linux instead and never look back.
no it wont, if google is doing it this aggressively to thier own devices, MS doesnt want to be left behind
lol no, VC funding line goes up
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