Me: points out of fact

You: you’re acting in bad faith!

It still doesn’t make any sense to me. Do you think I’m acting in bad faith because I acknowledge a fact, and you won’t? Or is it because I keep poking holes in your logic?

Sounds like hurt feelings to me

Thank you Lord Gaben

Not me! I switched in 2017, right around the time Windows 10 "telemetry" (read: spyware) was getting backported to Windows 7.

It was a rough first couple of years, gaming-wise, but I managed to get by playing mostly Linux-native games and using PlayOnLinux with pre-Proton WINE for the one or two games important enough to justify the hassle.

(INB4 "weird flex but OK")

I gotta admit, I was pretty conflicted about Proton when it was first announced, since there was a lot of fear that it would reduce developer impetus to make proper Linux-native games. I'm not actually sure whether that came to pass or not, but I feel like the issue is a lot less important than it seemed at the time.

It's built on Wine, any general improvements to compatibility will generally support desktop programs using the same APIs

Nobody said it did. But it also doesn’t mean that macOS costs money.

This is why I have used flatpak steam. It's a lot easier to manage drivers in it vs the shitshow that is doing it natively with adding custom driver specific repos and whatnot.

Hoping the new PC I just ordered (with an AMD GPU) will be better with the native app.

Proton upstreams to Wine a lot. You can tell by the number of patches they have keeps fluctuating

Considering october is the planned end of life for w10 I wouldn't be surprised

That's why I finally switched

I love it! Not only do I use it on the Steam Deck, but also on my Desktop PC running Linux.

I'm getting back into PC gaming after being consult exclusive for a while. I'm assuming anything with kernel anti-cheat is still not trying to work which is a problem because it means I either have to buy a windows licence or mess around with a cracked one which has its own security concerns.

I think my plan is to dual boot and use Windows as little as often.

I'm glad he's not as evil as the other billionaires, but can we stop with the billionaire simping? Ironic that an account on a left-wing anarchist instance made that comment lmao

Thank you Lord Gaben CodeWeaverss Sun Microsystems

It’s corporations making money off of OSS all the way down

Literally this week I learned that you need to install flatpak Nvidia drivers if you use flatpak Steam. Once I found that out, proton works great!

macOS has been free for, like, 15 years.

Yes, you have to already own an Apple computer, but Apple users don’t pay for OS upgrades.

Technically, anyone could download the OS images, but there’s not a lot that non-Apple users can do with them.

I'm getting back into PC gaming after being consult exclusive for a while. I'm assuming anything with kernel anti-cheat is still not trying to work which is a problem because it means I either have to buy a windows licence or mess around with a cracked one which has its own security concerns.

I think my plan is to dual boot and use Windows as little as often.

They support web browsers

That’s a limited time opportunity because x86 support is getting dropped with macOS 27.

Macos is free. At the cost of paying *2 for hardware

I will remark that that sounds like a distro issue - I use Arch and the drivers are just in the official distros, no need to add external ones. Just look up what you need on the wiki and install it.

That said, AMD will still probably be a better experience.