• Beebabe@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    I’ve decided I’m gonna have one crapbox prebuilt just for the windows things and nothing important or personal, but my work laptop and pc will most certainly not be windows going forward. I have a lot to learn but I’m over it with the ads and the privacy stuff is a genuine concern for work related items.

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      5 months ago

      I’m gonna have one crapbox prebuilt just for the windows things

      I did that too. For older games.
      Then I went ahead and installed Linux on that one too.

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      5 months ago

      unfortunately the games I like to play require bare-metal windows and a beefy gpu.

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        5 months ago

        Are you sure? You checked them on ProtonDB or you checked them on your hardware?

        I have just bought a modern AMD gpu (rx 7700xt) and now I am very surprised how almost every game works on Linux (I miss you rainbow six siedge, but I know it’s the developer’s fault who just chose not to enable anticheat support on Linux 🥲). Before I had Radeon R9 380 so it was quite old at this point but performance wise it wasn’t really as bad but I noticed that performance on Linux compared to Windows was trash or games even didn’t work at all. Now I guess it was due to how old and unsupported my old gpu was. Now everything just works and I’m shocked. Hardware is unfortunately important on Linux 😭. It doesn’t need to be beefy but it needs to be somehow modern. (At least for games… Everything else worked just fine even on my old hardware)