I remember when Proton launched it was like magic playing games like Doom and Nier Automata straight from the Linux Steam client with excellent performance. I do not miss the days of having the Windows version of Steam installed separately.

  • SuddenlyBlowGreen@lemmy.world
    6·
    1 year ago

    I’m that guy.

    Unfortunately, Siege and MW2 are the only two games that a large segment of my friend group plays.

    And also no alternative for Visual Studio (especially WPF and Xamarin)

    • Defaced@lemmy.world
      2·
      1 year ago

      Thankfully both of those games are crossplay. Anything that requires anti cheat seems to have crossplay oddly enough so I just play those on my ps5 or Xbox series s. My Xbox is the only Windows based device I use. Haven’t touched Windows 11 in months.

      • SuddenlyBlowGreen@lemmy.world
        2·
        1 year ago

        I do like rider, but I’m most comfortable building GUIs in WPF, and VS has a great drag-and-drop interface for that.

        Unfortunately, I don’t have free time like I used to, so learning a new framework that’s cross platform like Avalonia has been slow.

    • Trantarius
      1·
      1 year ago

      What do you mean no alternative to VS? There are many IDEs on Linux. What does VS do that nothing else can?

      • SuddenlyBlowGreen@lemmy.world
        4·
        1 year ago

        It has a very good GUI for building WPF and Avalonia interfaces drag-and-drop style.

        Although it’s been a while since I used rider, maybe it has it too. I should probably check it out again.

        But my main reason for staying on windows is still those damn anticheat software for some games my friend group play.

        To be fair though, windows is doing everything in its power to push me towards dual booting again.

        • banneryear1868@lemmy.world
          1·
          1 year ago

          To be fair though, windows is doing everything in its power to push me towards dual booting again.

          I just have separate PCs but similar situation, and I’ve been a linux sysadmin for over a decade. A lot of games work fine on linux, but when you get in to things like specialty peripherals and mods/addons things can get messy. Desktop running Windows Enterprise (with so much disabled) for audio production and games, laptop running debain for everything else, and all my servers are debian or raspberry pi devices.

          I feel like a lot of people don’t know you can, or know how to, disable most of the shitty Windows features and addons. There’s all kinds of automated scripts for it like “Reclaim Windows” but you can basically turn a lot of this stuff off through powershell. Most people are running Windows like a user and not like an admin.

          • SuddenlyBlowGreen@lemmy.world
            2·
            1 year ago

            Yeah, windows is still the best (or at least the most compatible) for games, but all my servers use linux too. I played around with windows server a bit, but it’s no contest.

            Thankfully, with WSL you can do a lot (but not all) of the stuff I love linux for.

            I mean I even automated the backup of my windows PC with WSL, and it works great.