I’ve been debating making the switch for a long time, but after spending like a week researching Proton, Lutris etc. on Linux, I decided to try it out and nuked my entire Windows 11 drive. :)
So far, every game I threw at it works perfectly fine, including Elden Ring & Cyberpunk.
I had to spend a little time troubleshooting some small issues but it’s part of the fun!
Specs are in the neofetch, my compositor / WM is Wayfire (Wayland) :)
@MrShelbySan I would love to be able to leave Windows for Linux just sadly I can’t with needing certain apps like Adobe to be useable on it.
Is dual booting not an option?
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Oh that’s very understandable. I have some small, niche apps I’ll keep using in a QEMU VM (which I need to get around to setting up…) myself.
@MrShelbySan Yeah VMs seem to very complex to me so I haven’t quite got into them just yet but it looks like I’ll have to look into them as otherwise I won’t be able to run half the programs I need.
I was told to check out virt-manager for my virtual machines :)
I found Adobe to be barely usable even on windows. For some reason I faced the most bizzaire bugs.
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Same, so I installed Windows 10 in a VM within my Arch OS and now I’m good - I can digitally sign and create PDFs with Acrobat Pro and manipulate images in Photoshop as if I had the OS natively installed.
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Look into GPU passthrough. It can be tricky but you can reserve a physical GPU for direct control by a virtualized operating system. If you have two GPUs (or an APU and GPU) you can run that virtual machine as a literal window inside your host operating system. LookingGlass does this with minimal latency by using a shared memory space.
I set up a system to do this but haven’t used it much because linux gaming just works and I haven’t had to return to using windows-exclusive productivity software. I could be mis-interpreting your use-case entirely, but it might illustrate how much you can accomplish with a virtual machine.