Win 11 is going to push me to Linux for my main PC. My current PC doesn't meet the hardware requirements for Win 11 so I couldn't run it even if I wanted to.

The only question is if I'll need a separate windows machine for gaming.

[–] dingus@lemmy.ml 20 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I have never been a big fan of multiplayer competitive games. So thankfully I don't have to worry about Anti-Cheats, which continues to be the main thing holding back some games working on Linux. At this point most single player or cooperative multiplayer titles that don't require an anti-cheat work great with Valve's Proton.

Also, AMD GPUs work pretty great in Linux. I know they're not as popular as nVidia, but I've had very good functionality from them in Linux.

[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Yeah, gaming is the main thing holding me back from kicking windows completely to the curb.

[–] DharkStare@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I bought a Steamdeck a few weeks ago and one of the reasons was to see how well games play on a linux system. So far everything is working fine so I think I might actually switch to full Linux for my next computer.

[–] TopRamenBinLaden@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

It's mostly competitive multiplayer games that struggle to play on linux. Games with anticheat, especially. If you play mostly single player games or casual multiplayer, then linux should work fine for you.

I stream some fps games with anticheat and they just don't work on linux. It's the one thing keeping my dual boot windows partition installed.

[–] filgas08@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

it depends on what games you play. Some online games will not work because of the anticheat, others will require some tweaking and some will not boot at all. This is not very common but it can happen. even more rare is the developer release a new update for a native game and that update contains some windows exclusive dependencies and the game doesn't start. But most of the times proton works perfectly, even with non-steam games.