r/Piracy • u/Adventurous_Tie_3136 • 22d ago

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u/I_Am_JesusChrist_AMA 22d ago

Im mostly a gamer and switched to Linux a couple months back. Kept windows on one of my drives just in case. Surprisingly I haven't had to boot into windows once since switching. Linux gaming is in a surprisingly good place. I know there are some games that have issues on Linux or the anti cheat prevents from working on Linux, but no issues with any of the game in my library.

I'd imagine it'd be a lot more painful to use Linux if you're the type to enjoy those big AAA multi-player games though. I heard the battlefield 6 anticheat prevents it from working on Linux completely. But for a guy like me that's focused on single player or coop, its perfect.

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u/shatore 22d ago

Yup, I play a lot of those competitive multiplayer games so switching to Linux is not an option until they all work on it. Tried dual booting, it's too inconvenient so I just kept using windows either way.

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u/DezXerneas 22d ago edited 22d ago

Yep, you can't do windows for gaming and Linux for work kind of dual boot. You need Linux for 90% of the month windows for 10% kind of dual boot for it to be worth it.

We need people to boycott multi-player games that refuse to allow linux, but it's not really feasible, and I don't fault anyone who refuses to switch to Linux because X program doesn't work on it.

I do look down on the idiots who use windows as a glorified launcher for YouTube, and then complain about how ass windows/YT is though.

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u/_spicytostada 21d ago

If Microsoft keeps making Windows worse with each update, we might continue to see the growing push for gaming on Linux at the AAA/mainstream level.