Subj : What's Your Go-to OS
To   : Nightfox
From : Arelor
Date : Mon Mar 03 2025 07:29 am

 Re: What's Your Go-to OS
 By: Nightfox to Arelor on Sun Mar 02 2025 01:20 pm

> I'm aware of that.  Have you tried it though?  Many people have said many
> Windows games still have trouble running in Linux or won't run at all.  I've
> tried it myself and have been unable to run a few of the games I like to
> play. Also, there are some demanding Windows games that I like (such as
> Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024) that I just don't think would run in Linux.

I ran Bazzite for a couple of months, then wrote an article about it. The results were sound enough that I bought a SteamDeck for personal use.

Compatibility is not perfect but a significant percentage of the games I want to run work GreatTM and the overwhelmingly most works well enough. The real trick is using some means of automation in order to install the games, so you don't have to do it all manually yourself. Stuff like Lutris is great because it installs your games for you with known good configurations using community scripts.

Also, lots of games made with Unity get Linux native versions.

I don't play particularly new stuff, but I have found you can run most of the games most of the time. If you want 100% compatibility you are out of luck, but at this point of Computer History you are screwed with Windows there too.


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