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?
@cultsuperstar I think this might be one of my first ways of doing it, the main problem with it, in the long run, would be files going between, one of my apps that can’t run on Linux natively is a cloud sync one that puts them in the cloud for me to access, a VM (I’m pretty sure) can still allow me to access those files if I so fish outside of the VM (or at least allow me to add files to it.).
The best bet will be try seeing if I can use most of my stuff on Linux as a Dual boot, then anything that I can’t run in a VM and remove my main windows instance when I feel I can successfully move across.
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 :)
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.
@BaroqueInMind I’ll have to look into VMs more as it seems like I will most likely need to use one to actually do what I need to sadly.
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.
I found Adobe to be barely usable even on windows. For some reason I faced the most bizzaire bugs.
@AppleMango I find the Beta version are somewhat more stable than the actual ‘stable’ released versions.