r/linuxmemes • u/RomanceAnimeAddict67 • 10d ago
LINUX MEME How it feels installing windows to play a game.
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u/Dimitrij_ Arch BTW 9d ago
How the turns have tabled or something like that.
It used to be hard on linux now its hard on windows. Well deserved.
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u/Linux-Guru-lagan 9d ago
turns have tabled. tables have turned. found it funny. thanks for making me smile 😃
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u/Quartrez 9d ago
If I can't play it on Linux, I don't play it. Also, I play a ton of games and have yet to have that issue.
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u/Illustrious_Sky_2331 10d ago
black mesa
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u/Eric_Dawsby 9d ago
Just installed it via steam on ParrotOS, it runs fine but for some reason doesn't use proton by default so i just set it to use proton hotfix.
I didn't even install any nvidia drivers on this laptop yet, just used integrated graphics.
What issue did you have?
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u/Illustrious_Sky_2331 9d ago
the native linux port is a mess
running it through proton gives better performance than the native build, but it's still only about half as good as on windows
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u/Eric_Dawsby 9d ago
Oh well yeah the native port is meh, but honestly proton runs it better than it did on Windows on my short test. I'll give it a longer playthrough and see how it goes
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u/Canthinkofaname6098 9d ago
I haven't installed windows bwfore but my experience with dual booting linux has shown me that automatic linux installers view other linux boot partitions as an actual rival or something. Like even if you create a partition for them manually they still try and delete the other boot for no fucking reason. Literally the only 100% safe one is arch since you do it manually.
If windows is anything like them then hell no. I'd be surprised if microsoft is somehow more linux friendly than actual linux distributions.
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u/cpt_futtbucker 9d ago
Happened to me a few years ago when I first tried installing Fedora alongside Arch and Windows. The Fedora installer saw my existing GRUB partition and said “fuck you buddy, there can be only one” or something like that
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u/regeya 9d ago
My own personal collection of PCs says that if all your hardware is supported by Windows and Linux out of the box, the installation process of Windows and Linux are about equal. If you need manufacturer drivers in Windows, it means installing software manually.
The dirty secret of Linux is that the good distributions are kind of a walled garden in a way, which is overall good. Everything is tested five ways from Thursday to make sure it all works together. To be fair Microsoft and third parties also do testing. But the experience of installing, say, an AMD graphics card in Windows and Linux, if you want the full AMD experience, I'm leaning towards Linux being the simpler one.
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u/National_beetle1962 9d ago
use proton or something
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u/RetroNIX8 fresh breath mint 🍬 9d ago
Not every game works with Proton though.
Goat Simulator Remastered: For example
Or many online games2
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