• self@awful.systemsOP
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    1 year ago

    the least infuriating way I’ve found to use windows is in a gaming VM with a dedicated GPU where if windows decides it needs to update, reboot, or crash my actual work in Linux won’t be impacted

    increasingly, running games and apps in straight Proton is a better option in general though. both options give me slightly better performance than raw windows, cause the gaming VM has very good compatibility due to it mimicking reference hardware, and Proton implements the windows API on top of a higher performance kernel with none of the shit parts of windows slowing it down

    and all it costs you is your sanity

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      1 year ago

      I just really want to be able to play racing sims in Proton without them breaking. That seems to be one of the last frontiers for me to give up Windows entirely.

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        1 year ago

        if you’d like I can dig up the tutorials I used to set up the gaming VM I use — it’s very durable (under NixOS) with maybe one breakage in the ~3 years I’ve been using it, it uses a dedicated graphics card so performance is excellent, and there’s a number of ways to attach input devices and audio so that latency isn’t an issue

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          The problem tends to be more that the games I want to play aren’t particularly playable under Proton to begin with; Assetto Corsa’s listed as Silver under ProtonDB. That and I’ve got to use third-party drivers for my Logitech wheel to get working force feedback, which I can do, but it’s a faff I’d rather do without.

          That said, I’ll be looking to build a new PC soon when the newly-announced AMD cards come out, so I’ll probably look more into getting things working properly then.