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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..

@trinsec mac and linux have similar features to show the mouse if you want it.

@freemo Yeah, enable them. Those features are life savers! Well, sanity savers! Whatever is left anyway.

@trinsec I just increased the size of my mouse slightly and it usually works for me as long as im at my home computer... in sunlight on my laptop is another story though

@freemo There's a little software called YoloMouse. Could try that out. ;)

@sergeant @freemo I'm a gamer, still most convenient on windows. Plus my job. :P

@trinsec

I have yet to find a windows game I couldnt play on linux... and more often than not they play better on linux than on windows... there are some exceptions of course but they are getting fewer every day.

@sergeant

@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.

@trinsec

any software your job makes you use will almost certainly run on linux, thats easy... a VM being the easiest solution, but then WINE works if you want it to feel more native.

@sergeant

@freemo @sergeant Nope, I checked upon it but Affinity Suite and Linux aren't compatible yet.

@trinsec

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 @sergeant And let this software need the GPU... :P

What about just leaving my choice of OS alone? This isn't the first time we've had this discussion. :P

@trinsec

You are more than welcome to use any OS you want, as long as it is linux!

@sergeant

@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.

@trinsec

That would be a good start so i could begin the healing process and one day forgive you.

@sergeant

@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

@IAmErik @freemo @sergeant I would say Proton. Valve's working very hard to make many games accessible under Linux. Check it out with SteamOS. It's not for nothing that Valve's Steam Deck is starting to be very popular now.

@IAmErik @trinsec @sergeant

Yes most games run well on linux now, its a fork of wine called proton and steam comes with it fully integrated. So you can play most games on linux now with very little fuss.

@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.

@trinsec @IAmErik @sergeant

In my expiernce of running games about 80% work perfectly, 95% work with rare glitches (a crash every 10 hours or somethibg), and 97% work with some glitchyness but playable...

@freemo @IAmErik @sergeant Depends on the games, of course. I'd say checking the game profile pages on Steam might be helpful to see at a glance whether it is 'definitely supported' to 'Maybe I have to tweak things'.

@trinsec @IAmErik @sergeant

Proton db is the place to check, not steam... but youll be hard pressed to find a game on there listed as not working at all

@freemo @IAmErik @sergeant Good call re Proton DB. Since I'm a Steam User, Steam would be easier for me. :)

@trinsec @IAmErik @sergeant

Proton db is the tool steam uses to run windows games on linux. Proton db is usually a better source imo, it usually provides any tweaks you need to copy and paste to get it to work.

@trinsec
Thank you both for sharing that. That is good news, and bad news. Good news because as a software engineer, I really do prefer Linux for a programming environment. Bad news because now I'm going to have to reconfigure at least one of my laptops. 🙂
@freemo @sergeant

@IAmErik @trinsec @sergeant

I think youll find it is very capable in the gaming world. Let us k ow.

Only place you may have some troubke is with mmorpg, but with the latest anticheat update most of those support linux too 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.

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