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Steve with GN Considering Linux (www.youtube.com)
submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/linux_gaming
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@26:07 he says as a business he's considering Linux on his computers because of Windows privacy violations. It's great to hear someone with such a wide audience talking about using Linux.

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

I'm not a dev or into IT and I'm on Arch Linux playing games and working without any problems. My sister has more trouble getting some games to run on Windows than I do on Linux.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Only time I reinstalled Windows on a laptop was when I was trying to get an ODB2 over USB connector to work, and the program (FORSCAN) couldn't automatically read the device in Wine. You had to run a series of commands to find the device and then create a symlink in that Wine prefix. I was not going to tinker around like that while sitting in a hot car upon the hope I get it right and don't fuck up the instrument cluster.

But besides those weird edge cases, it's been pretty easy for me too, and I still reinstalled Linux after that little project!

Now that I think about it, I wonder if a Windows VM would have worked...

[–] PlasticExistence 1 points 6 months ago

A VM would normally work if USB passthrough is properly configured. That said, on operations just like that, I normally just boot to my small Windows partition that I keep around for just such an occasion.