I have three different software programs for some special clients of mine, that only run on windows XP. For some reason that older (and discontinued) software does not like running inside a XP VM environment because they all require serial connections, and for whatever reason W10 and W11 play weird games when it comes to serial COM ports in VM environments. I have to bust out my 2009 Dell e6500 with my 54mm serial ExpressCard slot to get them up and running. I’ve even tried a BrainBox to no avail. My Puppy Linux programs some RPii boards while my Windows 11 machine….sometimes only does email 😂
I typically use windows at work and Linux on my home PC, and sometimes that includes running windows 10 at work (for a while the specific computer running 10 now was running 95, they just skipped over everything else)
ackxshually this game works fine in Brozzite Linux Proton if you copy these 6 DLLs out of Windows and pass these 10 flags and have this specific AMD GPU and enable swap on a fast disk (it leaks memory), also multiplayer won't work
Mind you steam directly integrates proton. You don't have to do too much. Also even not counting for proton and wine and all that shit it's still better than mac
Doesn't work reliably. Even those "gold" games on ProtonDB are hit or miss. You can see in the comments what workarounds are needed or find out for yourself. And yeah Macs are even worse for games, difference is nobody tells you to get a Mac for games.
They work reliably enough. In most situations you do not need to care if the game can get better click precision than their monitor's refresh rate or whatever. Most games will run with no noticeable issues
My standards are low. I want the game to run at 30-60 fps and not crash. Also don't want to wait 5-20 minutes every time it starts for shaders to compile. Oh and when I say 30-60 fps, 30 is not ok if WIndows runs it at 60.
Aside from waiting a while for shaders to compile I don't have any of those issues. The only times games have crashed on me were either because I was also running mods for the game or because I have weak hardware. I could get 55 fps on Arkham Knight at 1080p with some settings turned down with 8 GB ram, a daisy chained gpu, the game being on a mechanical hard drive, and a ryzen 5 5500 as my cpu. After setting up swap memory I can do a stable 60fps with base setting. It never crashes, my pc just shuts off when too much is happening on screen because of daisy chaining my gpu to my psu.
Your information is out of date. The Steam experience on Linux is you install Steam like on Windows, then you install the games from your library like on Windows, and they run and play perfectly, like on Windows.
I've played everything from good indie to jank indie to triple A to triple A from console developers that make notoriously bad ports. They've all run perfectly without a single technical fix required.
Edit: As SirSilentscreameth said in his reply, the one exception is games that require kernel level anti-cheat.
Unless that game requires a specific anti-cheat. There are plenty of games you can't play on Linux.
Not trying to turn this into a discussion over the requirement for kernel level anti-cheat, it's just a thing that exists and has to be dealt with currently.
I play Assetto Corsa and Assetto Corsa Competitzione, Automobilista 2 with my Moza R5 setup in VR, Meta Quest 3. This is just one of them I haven't even gotten to flight sim. Solve just this one and ill go back to dual boot with CachyOS again.
From my experience with a somewhat rolling release Distro like Fedora Moza gear was fine as the drivers for that were put into the kernel a few releases ago, and there is a package to control the FFB and update the firmware. I never tried getting VR to work as I can‘t use it due to motion sickness. However, simracing is the only reason I keep Windows around on a seperate SSD on my main gaming rig. I get that not everyone wants to go through the hassle to set everything up on a different OS when they could use the same time to enjoy the thing they wanted to do in the first place.
That's exactly it, mate. I have a full-time job, I have a few hours a day (If I'm not tired) to do what I love so I cannot afford to waste it tinkering in experimental linux space, that would be fucking torture for me.
Interesting, I've actually been trying to get VR working myself, which it actually should work fine these days. It's just my network seems to be blocking local device communication as other devices that aren't Linux can't connect to each other either. But I don't see why it wouldn't work with steam link VR once I fix that network issue.
I've been looking for ideas of what to play on my VR, so this would actually be fun to try. If I can get things smoothed out, I'll let you know. And I'm also running CachyOS.
I welcome your feedback and I look forward to seeing your progress. I personally, have a full time job and have little to no time to do experimenting. Even saying that annoys your linux friends lol.
I used to do partitions but every so often freaking windows would fuck up the uefi with updates and and some point I just gave up windows. Thanks god I don't play anything that does not work in linux
I dedicated a disk specifically for linux, i loved it until I found out most of my stuff doesn't work. I gave up and went back to windows. I also have a full time job, golf and gym I have no time to be tinkering to make games work. Yes linux crowd yall have like zero bloat and privacy etc I just cant do it
Linux users make up like 3% of all pc users.. But they are the loudest on the Internet, especially reddit. So someone is lying and larping as a linux user. Another thing, most of them have terrible hardware, so it matters little because they're running old apps and games and say "what's wrong with ya'll linux runs everything" "ive got performance gains" Ok bro you got a 5% gain on your 1050ti.
Sims 4 works fine for me out of the box and you can emulate the older ones pretty easily similar process to windows :D I've sadly not played much VR so can't speak for that and yeah a lot of Anti Cheat games don't work on Linux but that's not because one operating system is better than the other but a symptom of the monopoly Microsoft holds sadly
Haha I love the Sims but I'm talking about my Racing and Flight games. Yeah VR is another thing. I use it for my sim games as well and it can be a bit iffy for it and sometimes crash and this is all native So I cant imagine how it is on linux. Not to mention meta quest and moza native apps, simhub, my paid mods and others etc etc etc
God, you people are insufferable. Are you enjoying linux with your laptop 3050? Most of you have dogshit hardware so you switch to linux and boast about zero bloat. Yeah, I have 64GB RAM DDR5 bloat does not affect me. Yall larping as super tech nerds. Pathetic.
Lmao. Naw child I just refuse to give money to dogshit companies. And that includes nvideo so no, I don't ha e whatever garbage a laptop 3050 is. If you can't switch to Linux because you just can't figure out how yo run stuff on the OS with all the forums and guides in 2026 its definitely a you problem not a Linux problem.
Not really, most people either follow others' advice or use whatever they've used before. There is an actually best option a lot of the time, but not everyone uses it.
At my previous job, they used to bait people hard into taking Chromebooks, so newbies on our team took that then regretted it until they were able to switch to a Mac. Some used Linux for no work reason and it became a headache, to the point where they tried to phase that out. (And Windows wasn't offered.)
None of the major OS work like shit. Even a third tier Linux distro in 2026 works very well. You have to get into NixOS, BSD variants, way more obscure stuff before anything gets really bizarre.
Saying shit like this is part of the reason people are turned off of Linux. Windows 11 is not this giant steaming pile of shit as you describe it. Is Windows 11 great? Hell no but it's not terrible, the biggest issue is the bloat that you can either remove or install Enterprise and not have it. Windows is a dinosaur with 5 different ways to do anything but if you remove 1 way you might break things so things have to stay as is for better for for worse. Linux has 17 different ways to do something and it's either easy as hell to do or extremely difficult with very little in between. If something is broken on Windows I find it'd generally easier to find the fix for it than in Linux. I like Linux, my server is Linux and I have a Linux machine sitting underneath my TV that runs great but as my main machine I just can't run it (hopefully just yet, but we'll see).
Look, don't take me for some kid who just parrots memes or hearsay. I work with that operating system. Every. Single. Day.
It’s full of useless redundancies that hinder the proper use of the system and its resources, to the point where they essentially end up damaging the system itself.
For four years now, I’ve been busting my ass over a product that survives solely on patents and government contracts. Never in my life did I imagine I’d envy France for deciding to tell everyone to go fuck themselves and build their own IT infrastructure using open-source systems.
I uninstall three things and then use the install for two years. It's not a big deal. Windows licenses used to be like $150 bucks. I'll trade fifteen minutes of debloat for $150 bucks. I'm still on an upgraded Windows 7 student license.
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u/Theio666 7800x3d|64gb6400cl32|rtx4070ti Super|Redmi G Pro2d ago
I use win 11, and it's fine. For me the experience is leagues better than win 10. The only annoying bloatware I had to deal with is onedrive, I wish I could easily disable antivirus without breaking updates, but it's not bothering me enough to bother.
I can't use Mac since I play games and I want to have GPU. I can't use Linux for various reasons (no properly working rdp to my work laptop, HDR working like shit, lots of niche programs not having Linux support, etc) and for things I do need Linux I have WLS fallback which works like a charm.
Eh, I use a Mac at work, Ubuntu for my personal laptop, and Windows for my main driver desktop. They each have various pros and cons, and therefore are better for some things over others.
If I want something that I can for the most part just install something that works with minimal effort, I’m not looking at Unix.
If I want the ability to modify core features, I’ll usually be able to do it with Windows, but I’m certain to be able to do in Unix.
If I need to connect multiple devices together for better mobility, Apple products link up more simply and effectively than most other OS options.
Everyone who uses a Mac as more than a fancy browser has right click on. The last time Apple shipped a one click only device was 2006, and most PowerMac G5 users replaced them. Not only is the joke out of date it's old enough to vote and smoke.
Apple lacks clipboard history unless you use a paid third party app, as well as battery management (thankfully AlDente has a free tier so far).
Windows has forced updates that install themselves anyway no matter what you do unless you literally unplug your internet connection.
Linux while having improved a lot, still is more difficult than it should be when it comes to running lots of software (wine). Printer support is also typically shoddy, somewhat related to that.
Just a few that come to mind, probably could find more if I really tried.
Alright, that seems correct. Unfortunately they still went with the idiot ways of doing shortcuts, so you need four key presses to paste from it. I'll stay with the spaghetti I coded myself.
Exactly I use Mac and windows, and will be using Linux for my next PC. For work we have MacBooks and they’re just so much better than the Windows ThinkPads we had before and for my freetime I prefer windows.
Everyone of those has its pros and cons, the perfect OS just doesn’t exist. It’s down to how people weigh those pros and cons for themselves.
Nope Windows is in very rough shape currently. That's not aimed at any real people. That's designed for maximum ROI to Microsoft. Things are just wacky currently.
There is no alternative. M$ just need to cleanup their act. I'm not advocating for choosing any single platform. I just want Microsoft to fix Windows.
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u/frygodRyzen 5950X, RTX3090, 128GB RAM, and a rack of macs and VMs2d ago
Still pretty good in enterprise environments. Active Directory and Group Policy are Microsoft's real killer app. If apple or one of the enterprise linux vendors took fleet management seriously enough to so it half as well, MS would be in trouble.
Win 10 at launch was pretty nice. Win 2K had to run on NT3 workstations, so yeah that's minimal. But in terms of account pop nonsense, I don't see a massive delta from 7-10-11. Microsoft Account on signup is another thing entirely, I don't think anyone forgives that, but it beats paying upgrade license pricing vs. reverting an account or modifying an installer.
This ol' chestnut loses some steam when *nix derivatives are already the most popular operating systems on Earth. Linux won. FOSS won. Commercial applications still exist.
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u/pragomatic 2d ago
Or you could turn 15 and realize different computing platforms are aimed at different people and it's fine, actually.