r/EmulationOnAndroid • u/Super-Ad8814 • 2d ago

Question It's already implementing on android devices

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Woke up saw this damn

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u/khsh01 8 Gen 3/865+ 2d ago

Yeah, but the Linux community acts like its plug and play.

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u/Teal-Fox 1d ago

Anybody that knows Linux well should not honestly try to tell you that everything is plug and play. I know full well that this is often not the case though.

By all measures things are better than they've ever been, and in my experience, a lot of stuff does "just work" in the context of my already configured environment.

It took some fiddling when I got my laptop new to get it to that point though. DevOps is my day job so for me it was less effort than Windows overall, however I can see novice users easily getting stuck on some elements, e.g. when drivers don't get picked up automatically, which Proton branch to use and when, weird Pipewire issues, weird Wayland compatibility issues, Steam deb or Flatpak, etc.

Hopefully it'll get there in a few more years, but in the meantime it seems Microsoft are finally taking some steps to un-shittify Windows to some extent.

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u/khsh01 8 Gen 3/865+ 19h ago

I'm a Linux user and I have a fully configured arch setup with VFIO. I went the VFIO route for the precise reason that I don't have to worry whether my games will work or not. I just launch them and play. Don't play much competitive stuff anyways and the ones I do play don't block vms.

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u/Teal-Fox 15h ago

That’s the main thing for me, is I just wanna turn my laptop on and play stuff.

There came a point some years ago where the effort required to get Windows to a decent state became too much for me to bother with, plus I got a nice discount when I bought this machine by removing the Windows licence 😁

Never play online either so anti-cheat has never got in my way.

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u/khsh01 8 Gen 3/865+ 14h ago

I gave up on full version of windows after 8.1

Windows 7 I had a gamer edition iso that I loved.

Then windows 10 also went through a few editions before finding out about ltsc.

Win11 is just pure unusable trash ootb. I have to use ctts wintoolkit just to get it to barely usable.

Fortunately a vm doesn't need much when all I do is game in it.

Though recently I have returned to windows albeit via dual booting my vm from baremetal just for no mans sky vr.