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Linux on the desktop breaks 4% for the first time on Statcounter (www.gamingonlinux.com)
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[–] Epzillon 14 points 8 months ago (6 children)

Got a new M.2 drive and installed Linux on it, still run windows on my old disk (no dual boot, only go to bios when I need windows).

Experience has been amazing so far, biggest issues for me are the following

  1. Had to get used to Gimp instead of my very legally acquired version of Photoshop
  2. Discord screen share does not have audio and is laggy as hell (an alternative discord-screenshare application exists but gives my voice a 1-2 second delay which upsets my gf when we're in voice, although it can stream entire desktop with audio which is amazing for watching shows together)
  3. Some games with anti-cheat don't work, so if I want to play those I still have to jump on windows.
  4. No HDR (but it looks to be coming to KDE and Cosmic soon)

Apart from this the experience has been amazing. I'm using Nobara and mostly gaming. As a dev terminal, scripts and ssh to my raspberry pi:s is just such a seamless and nice experience.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

1. If you don't mind using an older version of Photoshop (CC 2021), you could try this installer: https://github.com/LinSoftWin/Photoshop-CC2022-Linux

2. I would recommend using Vesktop instead of the official client - it's faster, has better privacy, and best of all, screensharing including audio works like a charm.

4. You could run your games thru gamescope - and as a bonus, you can use features like FSR for better quality or performance.

[–] Epzillon 2 points 8 months ago

Big thanks for the Photoshop repo! Works perfectly, I didn't think Ps on Linux was really possible but it seems we are living in the future!

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