Steam for Linux

Steam for Linux

how was your experience moving from Windows to Linux?
for me it was kind of a mix, loved the freedom and how easy linux is, proton is way better than i expected even on my old hardware, but i still ran into some random driver stuff and had to find workarounds to replace the windows trauma...

did you go full linux or kept dual booting?
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1000ydSTEREO 9 月 22 日 下午 5:35 
proton has been a game changer. as of late ive been dual booted, but i intend to make the full step away from m$ before the end of october. liberating feeling.

truth is though. the market will dictate you to have m$ in your back pocket as new games come along, m$ will be consistently combating the switch by making more annoying features certain game devs think they cant live without. unless youre willing to simply say: "nah, i dont need to play that game, ever." then you will stay dual booted. because new errors and driver issues will be occuring at some point or another, and in a vast majority of cases either wont get fixed due to a lack of linux focused troubleshooters dev side, or a workaround wall community side. you're at the behest of the games capabilities/functions.
最后由 1000ydSTEREO 编辑于; 9 月 22 日 下午 5:36
Puffin_Nugs 9 月 22 日 下午 5:41 
So far great! Just sad though that Windows 10 is ending soon :steamsad: but so far 6 months of just SteamOS is awesome! And I have no plans of dual-booting, as everything I need is working just fine. And if I really want to play COD or Fortnite, I can just go on my PS5 for that.
DaMu 9 月 22 日 下午 5:46 
It sucked at first, but it's going along well. Switching between Debian and Fedora as my daily drivers.
no snd 9 月 22 日 下午 5:49 
引用自 1000ydSTEREO
proton has been a game changer. as of late ive been dual booted, but i intend to make the full step away from m$ before the end of october. liberating feeling.

truth is though. the market will dictate you to have m$ in your back pocket as new games come along, m$ will be consistently combating the switch by making more annoying features certain game devs think they cant live without. unless youre willing to simply say: "nah, i dont need to play that game, ever." then you will stay dual booted....
If a game doesn't support Proton: "nah, i dont need to play that game, ever." is always the correct choice!
最后由 no snd 编辑于; 9 月 22 日 下午 5:55
Xenophobe 9 月 22 日 下午 5:57 
I started with dual booting, went back and forth for the first 3-4 weeks as I located linux alternatives to windows apps I used and then just got comfortable in linux ... then one day my son called me to help with a windows problem he was having and as I booted into windows to walk him through the fix, I realized it had been over 4 months since I had a need to go into windows.

Yes, there was a mild learning curve, but using a stable distro like Linux Mint with the Cinnamon desktop environment made the transition mostly painless. I still keep a windows install on my other pc for any unexpected 'can't find a linux app' situation ... just in case.
WarnerCK 9 月 22 日 下午 6:21 
Don't forget to read GOL.
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/
Mizzt 9 月 22 日 下午 7:01 
I started using Linux full-time in 2022. Since then, I don't regret switching over, even if it meant I'd be losing out on some multiplayer games that I more than likely never cared about.

I use Arch btw.
D. Flame 9 月 22 日 下午 7:23 
Wish CSP worked on Linux. Other than that, everything is golden.
thetargos 9 月 22 日 下午 7:48 
I started using Linux back in the second half of the 90s, and switched fully in 2002.

I arrived at Linux derived from many factors, but mainly (oddly enough) from gaming... keep in mind that gaming back then meant that you had to fiddle with the system configuration in order to get the most out of your games.

That meant messing with the memory system in config.sys and loading certain drivers in autoexec.bat in DOS, and later messing with Windows settings in 3.1 and then the nightmare that became the registry in win9x (and still is, for the most part), before 3D graphics you had to do the most out of your CPU and memory, which back then were expensive (not to the rididiculous point of current GPU pricing, but in some cases really close). 3D gaming became a commodity, and with it also came a whole new breed of instability points and the miriad of settings you had to mess with (depending on your configuration), etc.

It was back then that I learned of this "enthusiasts" operating system which implemented the Unix philosophy (which I had no idea what it meant back then) to the common desktop PC with a 386 or newer x86 CPU, which was very efficient with memory management and that supported multitasking from a DOS-like (TTY) interface... and got hooked. Then learned about how to fiddle with the X settings (in XFree86) to get pretty graphics on my desktop, and then about the OSS (Open Sound Sysyem) for my sound card, later (in 2.6) ditched in favor of ALSA (Advanced Linux Sound Architecture), like XFree86, created and swapped out of licensing issues.

At any rate I was so invested in this new system, and fed up with Win9x issues, that I simply stayed and oddly and ironically enough, switched my gaming fix needs to consoles, while keeping an eye for the occasional game with Linux support, like Shogo, Unreal Tournament, Quake 2 and 3, and a few (quite a few) others. Limiting my Windows gaming experience (and hence missing out on much of the PCMR scene).

I had my PC gaming dopamine rush out of games I could make run in Wine and tweaking the hell out of it (and the kernel with custom kernel builds and library builds for my games)... until real life kicked in and I had to make a choice, and chose to stay on Linux (as the poor student I was at the time), and I do not regret it one bit.
mihnt 9 月 22 日 下午 8:22 
Pretty easy as I don't really play AAA, current games. All the other stuff that I do with my PC already had good enough/better options. Only thing holding me back was gaming.
Thermal Lance 9 月 22 日 下午 9:50 
Since I mostly retrogame, I found the experience very good. At least for the games I played.
Zagnaut 9 月 23 日 上午 2:50 
I've been playing around with Linux since the mid-90's. I fully switched in 2019 and haven't looked back. Some very minor issues but overall amazing compared to Windows. ♥♥♥♥ Microsoft.
Ayiar 9 月 23 日 上午 6:02 
I thought it would be difficult but suprisingly it was very easy. All me games work, the DEs are high quality and easy to use and its really easy to fix problems using tools like the arch wiki, reddit and steam
Chaosolous 9 月 23 日 上午 8:49 
I switched to Mint in January. Other than learning pains, I’ve had no actual issues. Nothing hasn’t worked. Nothing broke. All my software runs, and I haven’t run into any technical issues that were worth noting.

Had I known it was as easy as it was, I’d of switched years ago. Everyone kept saying Linux is hard to use so I was nervous. They’re all full of ♥♥♥♥. Linux is easy if you actually know how to use a PC.
fly on the wall 9 月 23 日 上午 10:09 
first used linux in 2016. didnt work very well for gaming. went back to windows 7 till 2020 i started to dual boot and this year finally went full linux and havent looked back
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