You can just dual boot and have a Windows partition that you log back into to play vidya worst comes to worst
Proton on Steam plays a huge number of games already and its only going to get more functional with time, so check the protondb website to see how your gaming needs line up
Proton on steam is just a way to magically play windows only games on linux and thats about as far as my expertise on that goes :)
And dual booting is super easy its basically just dividing your storage space in half and having linux on one half and windows on the other (although its a little more complicated than that)
Dual boot: you have both OSes on one computer. When you restart, you get a DOS-ass looking menu asking which one you wanted. Keep your live USB around because sometimes Windows fucks it up for you.
Proton: install Steam on Linux, and in it do Steam > Settings > Steam Play and toggle the option “Enable Steam Play for Supported Titles”. Now most Windows games work on Linux. The exceptions are usually big-budget multiplayer games with aggressive anticheat systems
It's more complicated than that, you have to force linux to not see your graphics card so that it can be passed to the vm, which means you need a second graphics card or integrated graphics. For more info you can check out r/vfio. I tried it, but performance was bad, like 50% at best and anti-cheat will ban vm players, so no advantage there. I just went full Fedora and Steam Play/proton let's me play everything that I've wanted to play including Stray, which just came out and worked great with my Steam option to enable Steam Play for everything.
Proton runs most of my games at 4k max settings at this point, even using the open source AMD drivers and mesa3D opengl implementation. The only thing that consistently doesn't work is anticheat malware.
Also, theres RetroArch for everything else. :sicko-ness:
Can I get linux and then run a VM of windows so I can play my vidya or is that not how that works
Honestly if you're worried about that
You can just dual boot and have a Windows partition that you log back into to play vidya worst comes to worst
Proton on Steam plays a huge number of games already and its only going to get more functional with time, so check the protondb website to see how your gaming needs line up
I have no idea what any of those words mean from any of the replies I've seen, but I'm sure I can google it and find out
Proton on steam is just a way to magically play windows only games on linux and thats about as far as my expertise on that goes :)
And dual booting is super easy its basically just dividing your storage space in half and having linux on one half and windows on the other (although its a little more complicated than that)
Dual boot: you have both OSes on one computer. When you restart, you get a DOS-ass looking menu asking which one you wanted. Keep your live USB around because sometimes Windows fucks it up for you.
Proton: install Steam on Linux, and in it do Steam > Settings > Steam Play and toggle the option “Enable Steam Play for Supported Titles”. Now most Windows games work on Linux. The exceptions are usually big-budget multiplayer games with aggressive anticheat systems
It's more complicated than that, you have to force linux to not see your graphics card so that it can be passed to the vm, which means you need a second graphics card or integrated graphics. For more info you can check out r/vfio. I tried it, but performance was bad, like 50% at best and anti-cheat will ban vm players, so no advantage there. I just went full Fedora and Steam Play/proton let's me play everything that I've wanted to play including Stray, which just came out and worked great with my Steam option to enable Steam Play for everything.
Proton runs most of my games at 4k max settings at this point, even using the open source AMD drivers and mesa3D opengl implementation. The only thing that consistently doesn't work is anticheat malware.
Also, theres RetroArch for everything else. :sicko-ness: