Subj : What's Your Go-to OS
To : Nightfox
From : Arelor
Date : Sun Mar 02 2025 07:30 am
Re: What's Your Go-to OS
By: Nightfox to Accession on Sat Feb 22 2025 09:20 pm
> I'd like to see more Linux support for gaming too. It sounds like it has
You have plenty of commercial support nowadays. It is brutal. There is an incoming Linux Magazine article about that, by the way.
See, Steam has devoted a whole lot of money into designing a handheld computer and a Linux distribution to slap on it, designed specifically for playing commercial games on Linux, as a strategic moove to cease depending on Windows.
Nowadays, you can just install a game manager such as Lutris or Heroic Launcher and link it to a commercial games provider (such as Steam, GOG or Epic). You can download and install any games you have licensed under those platforms automatically because these launchers come with pre-configured install scripts. Installing a GOG game in Lutris is about as hard as installing a regular Steam game using the Steam client, which is to say it isn't. Now a game being Windows-only is no longer an issue.
Nowadays you are only really pressed when you want to play Windows 95 stuff, because those games don't run well on Wine nor Proton, but you can't run them directly on Dosbox. I find you can solve the issue for most of those titles by installing Windows 95 in Dosbox-x and running the games from there.
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