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@freemo That's why I've enabled the 'click CTRL to have your mouse pointer give some visual clue' in Windows. Man..
No they are.. when you run on a VM it is indistinguishable to the software from running on the OS itself... the only thing a VM cant do is if it needs access to the GPU, so its not a solution for games of things with GPU acceleration, outside of that 100% of apps are garunteed to work because it looks identical to the app to windows.
What they mean when they say it isnt compatible is that it wont run on linux directly.
@sergeant @freemo If you want I could run Linux in a VM to placate you. 😋
But hey, I have a steam deck running arch Linux (which I still have to learn about but I recently got the dock for it so that should be easier). Valve did a great job with Linux/Proton support. But it isn't 100% yet but I'm eagerly following this development.
At the moment windows is still more convenient for me. But I'm sure that won't be the case in 10 years at most.
@freemo
I was a pretty hardcore Linux user for 6 or seven years. I pretty much defaulted back to Mac and Windows lately, though. ("Lately" being the last 8 years or so.)
One of the reasons I haven't used Linux is that I do like to play games from time to time, and there was very little for that platform. Are you saying that you can run most gaming libraries under wine now?!?
@trinsec @sergeant
@freemo @IAmErik @sergeant Not quite 'most' yet, but it's getting pushed hard. You can check per game what the status is. There's fair amount of 'Verified' games for the Steam Deck, those you can usually count on supporting Linux. (Some 'verified' seem to be sketchy though, but majority should be fine)
At least 'verified' is in the thousands now.
@freemo @trinsec @sergeant Yeah, I’ve been running arch for three years now with no issues, performance specifically for Elden Ring and Cyberpunk exceeded windows specifically. Only issue is the few games with anti-cheat, Apex Legends, Dead By Daylight etc- I run a second windows ssd just for these and some work that requires powershell.
@freemo @sergeant I'm glad more and more games work on Linux since I do think that's the future. But not all do yet. Plus software I have to use for job.