For simmers, racing wheel and HOTAS Support can be iffy. SimHub for controlling bass shakers requires some extra finagling.
There are a handful of helpful tools written for Windows where I haven’t found a Linux alternative that doesn’t come with some heavy tradeoffs - MSI Afterburner, Voicemeeter Banana, Rainmeter are but a few examples.
Then there’s the ever increasing number of games requiring kernel level anticheat that doesn’t play nice with Proton.
Unfortunately, Windows probably going to stay my go-to for my desktop gaming PC and I have other reasons for that.
Happy to have Linux on my portable secondary devices, as I can always Sunshine/Moonlight my way back to my main system for anything those can’t do.
Yes, we can play “some” VR games on linux (vive(my headset), index, quest, and pico all have compatibility) but it is not yet at the point flat games are. I’m still trying to get more than the meta ported games to play with proper feeling(even they are a little lacking), the other games almost all have issues with frame rate, making it extremely tiring and headache inducing, then there are the mods that do not have linux native mod installers/launchers (satisfactory modders made theirs work well, install game through steam, run smm, install mods, boom done) where you need to install steam a second time with the game inside it as well. It is coming along and I am here for it, but until VR is up to speed I cannot let go of that crap os, all I can do is play all the games that work well in linux and the rest on a content stripped windows (I’ve removed all apps and files not required for VR/streaming)
STRONG SUGGESTION FOR VR USERS ON STEAM: Get WLX overlay to be able to interact with your desktop since steam likes to close the desktop overlay when the desktop is interacted with
I agree with everything here, but this was at one point the case with pancake gaming. I’m not saying that we deserve it, but it’s always been the tradeoff with Linux. I’ve never gotten a Linux system running with the expectation that it will work 100%. I admittedly essentially dropped my use of VR when I switched, but it comes down to a cost benefit analysis.
I just made the choice that an OS that wasn’t fully functional was better than an OS that didn’t respect me as a user. I’d much rather things not work in good faith than to have a working product progressively made worse for financial gain.
I’ve never gotten a Linux system running with the expectation that it will work 100%.
I only expect an OS to do what it was designed to do. I was so happy when steam went full crazy on proton, all of my flat library works like a dream, only 30 or so games, my VR library is over 100.
100% I do know of (and was well aware before my move) the limitations, I used linux in early 00. The way flat games are today I see VR being similar in 5 - 10 yrs (we are a small community overall and even smaller on linux). We WILL get there because the “real gurus” will take us there, I has faith and patience. Until then, M$ can harvest my streams and VR gameplay (I have stripped all apps, files, and flat games from my windows install and I only play for 2hrs at a time 5-7 times a week)
I have an Index, no, it’s far from “obviously compatible”. Yes you can get it working, but with many tradeoffs, performance issues, crashes, many VR games not working anyway even if the headset does, missing features outside the core functionality. And getting even to that state of not so easy unless you are on the correct distro with correct display manager.
I wish you could do VR on Linux with an experience at least somewhat close to Windows. But that’s just not the case, so I need a Windows 10 VM to play VR.
VR and compatibility with my sim cockpit and racing rig. Those are basically the only games I care about now. I don’t feel the need to purchase any other game that’s windows only so once the sim hardware is compatible, all of my machines will be Linux.
Well when I tried it it sucked. It’s solid for replacing Premiere Pro but AfterFX has some different functions that davinci Resolve just doesn’t offer out of the box. I had a real bad day trying to build an audio reactor. I actually tried installing reactor for like 3 days and alternatively get familiar with the scripting API. I had to give up because it started to eat into my daily schedule.
You can continue getting updates for Window 10 for free and they don’t really add new software to Windows.
Microsoft Office and lots of line of business apps (e.g. I prefer Tableau desktop over the web version) require Windows. Many game (not only multiplayer ones) continue to have issues with Linux (although there have been massive improvements in the last ~5 years).
If you haven’t uninstalled windows yet, I don’t know what can convince you
I’ve convinced my SO but thats it. My other gamer friends aren’t computer savvy enough to do it and go through all the headaches.
So they’ll keep dealing with ms shitty practices…
One user already mentioned VR Support.
For simmers, racing wheel and HOTAS Support can be iffy. SimHub for controlling bass shakers requires some extra finagling.
There are a handful of helpful tools written for Windows where I haven’t found a Linux alternative that doesn’t come with some heavy tradeoffs - MSI Afterburner, Voicemeeter Banana, Rainmeter are but a few examples.
Then there’s the ever increasing number of games requiring kernel level anticheat that doesn’t play nice with Proton.
Unfortunately, Windows probably going to stay my go-to for my desktop gaming PC and I have other reasons for that. Happy to have Linux on my portable secondary devices, as I can always Sunshine/Moonlight my way back to my main system for anything those can’t do.
VR support
I know the Index is obviously compatible as well as the Pico 4. I know there’s not a ton of options, but you can definitely still do it on Linux.
Yes, we can play “some” VR games on linux (vive(my headset), index, quest, and pico all have compatibility) but it is not yet at the point flat games are. I’m still trying to get more than the meta ported games to play with proper feeling(even they are a little lacking), the other games almost all have issues with frame rate, making it extremely tiring and headache inducing, then there are the mods that do not have linux native mod installers/launchers (satisfactory modders made theirs work well, install game through steam, run smm, install mods, boom done) where you need to install steam a second time with the game inside it as well. It is coming along and I am here for it, but until VR is up to speed I cannot let go of that crap os, all I can do is play all the games that work well in linux and the rest on a content stripped windows (I’ve removed all apps and files not required for VR/streaming)
STRONG SUGGESTION FOR VR USERS ON STEAM: Get WLX overlay to be able to interact with your desktop since steam likes to close the desktop overlay when the desktop is interacted with
I agree with everything here, but this was at one point the case with pancake gaming. I’m not saying that we deserve it, but it’s always been the tradeoff with Linux. I’ve never gotten a Linux system running with the expectation that it will work 100%. I admittedly essentially dropped my use of VR when I switched, but it comes down to a cost benefit analysis.
I just made the choice that an OS that wasn’t fully functional was better than an OS that didn’t respect me as a user. I’d much rather things not work in good faith than to have a working product progressively made worse for financial gain.
I only expect an OS to do what it was designed to do. I was so happy when steam went full crazy on proton, all of my flat library works like a dream, only 30 or so games, my VR library is over 100.
100% I do know of (and was well aware before my move) the limitations, I used linux in early 00. The way flat games are today I see VR being similar in 5 - 10 yrs (we are a small community overall and even smaller on linux). We WILL get there because the “real gurus” will take us there, I has faith and patience. Until then, M$ can harvest my streams and VR gameplay (I have stripped all apps, files, and flat games from my windows install and I only play for 2hrs at a time 5-7 times a week)
I have an Index, no, it’s far from “obviously compatible”. Yes you can get it working, but with many tradeoffs, performance issues, crashes, many VR games not working anyway even if the headset does, missing features outside the core functionality. And getting even to that state of not so easy unless you are on the correct distro with correct display manager.
I wish you could do VR on Linux with an experience at least somewhat close to Windows. But that’s just not the case, so I need a Windows 10 VM to play VR.
Have you tried ALVR? It works pretty well for me at least. Supposedly the latest Steam Link VR beta works with several headsets too.
VR and compatibility with my sim cockpit and racing rig. Those are basically the only games I care about now. I don’t feel the need to purchase any other game that’s windows only so once the sim hardware is compatible, all of my machines will be Linux.
I am not comfortable giving up my whole music production trajectory just because.
I’ve never used anything from Adobe kit myself, but I’ve heard that Davinci Resolve is a good After Effects alternative
Well when I tried it it sucked. It’s solid for replacing Premiere Pro but AfterFX has some different functions that davinci Resolve just doesn’t offer out of the box. I had a real bad day trying to build an audio reactor. I actually tried installing reactor for like 3 days and alternatively get familiar with the scripting API. I had to give up because it started to eat into my daily schedule.
You can continue getting updates for Window 10 for free and they don’t really add new software to Windows.
Microsoft Office and lots of line of business apps (e.g. I prefer Tableau desktop over the web version) require Windows. Many game (not only multiplayer ones) continue to have issues with Linux (although there have been massive improvements in the last ~5 years).
I’ve fully moved to Linux in June, but I guess monthly subscription?
I can’t play CoD or Battlefield on Linux and those two are my main shooters.
I’ll just stick to my usual “violently murdering any AI assistant they put in the OS” thing.