7 years later, Valve's Proton has been an incredible game-changer for Linux
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It's built on Wine, any general improvements to compatibility will generally support desktop programs using the same APIs
A custom wine
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Nobody said it did. But it also doesn’t mean that macOS costs money.
You're out of arguments my man
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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.
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.
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Proton upstreams to Wine a lot. You can tell by the number of patches they have keeps fluctuating
I know but I've been using wine so long that its comfortable and I rarely fail to get a game running on it.
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Considering october is the planned end of life for w10 I wouldn't be surprised
It's not over til it's over
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That's why I finally switched
And why I will as well
What did you switch to?
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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.
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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.
You can use windows freely without activating, or at least you could last time I needed it.
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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
It's a meme
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Thank you
Lord GabenCodeWeaverssSun MicrosystemsIt’s corporations making money off of OSS all the way down
How do they make money with proton and foss?
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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!
I've been using mint exclusively for like 3 months and have been using a hearty blend of terminal installs and the program manager app.
It seems to not have caused any problems YET, but I've been assured it will. I see flatpack conversations a lot and don't fully understand the differences (apart from the install method).
Is it worth understanding and committing to a single system or can I just be a low-power user for a while?
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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.
Macos is free. At the cost of paying *2 for hardware
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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.
Yeah, when w10 dies this is probably what I'll end up doing too. I want to ditch windows but a lot of the programs I use don't have Linux support
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They support web browsers
Despite its drawbacks electron is probs a great thing for linux uptake. it makes cross platform development very easy
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That’s a limited time opportunity because x86 support is getting dropped with macOS 27.
Unless they don't provide ARM downloads or have some other problem, couldn't you just use the ARM version, because part of what QEMU is is an emulator, to emulate other architectures?
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Macos is free. At the cost of paying *2 for hardware
You have to pay for hardware to run any operating system.
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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.
I use Arch, btw.
No flak. I do, too.
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You're out of arguments my man
I only ever had one: macOS is free. That is factually, correct
And no one here has been able to prove otherwise in anyway. And no, “something else cost money so this cost money, even though it’s free“ is not a valid argument.
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It not making sense to your useless brain doesn't make it false.
Now you’re just talking to yourself.
macOS is free, and no one here has been able to give a single shred of evidence to prove to the contrary.
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Or Adobe, that’s the most frequent complaint
FUCK ADOBE
But yea, those cock suckers are the only reason I have to dual boot.
