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Limited to amd though, yea? Nvidia still holding back their drivers?
Nvidia is their own worst enemy as regards Linux. When everyone realizes games work better under Linux and AMD, nVidia will be crying outside the gate. We're 5 years into Proton, in another 5 years there won't be a game that doesn't run better on Linux.
When everyone realizes games work better under Linux and AMD, nVidia will be crying outside the gate.
So you think Microsoft spends 8 billion dollars acquiring Bethesda Game Studios, Arkane Studios, id Software, MachineGames, Tango Gameworks, ZeniMax Online Studios in 2020 and then proceeds to spend 68 billion dollars on acquiring Activision Blizzard...
... just to stand on the sidelines watching everyone drop Windows as a gaming platform?
They do lock you to Windows to use GamePass, but as long as the games are available on other marketplaces they'll be playable on Linux. The Xbox app, which is what you have to use for GamePass for some stupid reason, installs games in a special encrypted format that can't (easily) be executed from outside of it.
So that’s why I never got into gamepass!
I knew there had to be a reason, couldn’t be that I’m just lazy.
Do you realize that it doesn't matter to them if gamers use Windows or not, right? Windows is big on the enterprise side, consumer OS is the least of their worries, and their gaming division doesn't lose anything if gamers run their games on Linux, thanks to steam actually. So no, I don't think that maters...
Not to mention that we're talking about Nvidia and having a shitty ass driver being a bad thing long term for them, not Microsoft.
Oh... The home users matters to Microsoft. A lot.
MS have been standing by the sidelines watching Google raking home all that sweet money made from all that personal data Android and Chrome users happily hand over.
Why do you think you're able to install Windows and use it without activating it? Because Microsoft are nice guys doing charity?
No. Microsoft aren't dropping the home market. They've just been repositioning themselves the last couple of years.1
Yeeeeaaah I really doubt it sorry
Linux performance with proton has increased so drastically in recent years, your statement can be taken as wishful thinking at first, but there is a definite trend and I agree that Linux will probably be the powerhouse of gaming in coming years.
Insh'allah :D (* I'm an atheist, but the phrase is kind of fitting)
Lol I swear lemmy users are the most delusional bunch
Fully usable with NVidia. I can play all the games I want at the same graphical settings as Windows. (Nvidia 1080)
That's because you're using fairly old hardware, anything in the 2000-series and up doesn't work very well.
I’m rolling an RTX 2060 mobile in a Lenovo gaming laptop and everything is hunky dory. I’ve been saying for a couple years now that everything feels faster on linux, and that includes games. Proton is truely an impressive tool.
My 3070 runs better than on windows🤷♀️ (in most of my favourite games)
My 3080 works flawlessly
I have a 1660 and every game ive played on linux does run better and getting the nvidia drivers wasnt that hard