@darth Always glad to hear that. Its good to see that tech channels have made more short easy to follow videos how easy it is to start gaming on linux, how gaming on linux has developed to better in recent years and for example with the proton support gaming on linux is good or very good on linux nowdays. I Actually did go throu all my games which I usually play in windows, and I did check does proton support the games and almost all had good support. My next gaming pc will be linux.
@darth Demo something like ChimeraOS and how you don't have to go hunting down community made mods to play your older games. A recent example is that the original "Max Payne" has had some missing audio since Windows Vista and there's a community mod out there that you have to use to convert the audio files to work. The same game works out of the box on desktop Linux with proton.
Also just ask them how many times they've had Windows update break a device driver or delete files, etc.
@darth The biggest advantage to me is to not have Windows running on bare metal. Windows is best suited to a VM because Microsoft fired most (all?) of their dedicated QA department some years back, and it shows in just how unpredictable and unstable their updates are. Often it seems regular updates break more than they fix and they end up pushing another update to fix the last update, which itself introduces all new issues. In a VM you have the ability to easily restore a working snapshot.
@darth If it's a company machine I would just leave it alone with whatever they put on it. Maybe I've just had bad luck, but while I don't get hard crashes when I use Windows there's always just some bullshit. Like Bitlocker not being an option if you only have the "home" edition of Windows, and if you try to secure your drive yourself with something like Veracrypt, Windows feature updates might nuke the Veracrypt bootloader and render your system un-bootable. I just really hate Windows, lol.
@darth For the games that work, Linux has, for me, been far more stable, predictable and easy to use for gaming. When I last tried gaming on Windows 10 a couple years ago, it was constantly "something". Once, a Windows update broke audio output from my GPU. The sound meter was showing output but nothing actually came out so I had to switch to on board audio. That same GPU is now gaming on Linux without issue and audio over HDMI works fine.
@TaigenMoon@darth To make things worse, Steam just just dropped support for Intel based Macs, and the Apple silicon Macs don't support graphics cards. Even the brand new Mac pro has several PCIe slots, but doesn't support putting a GPU in them.
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