It honestly makes me wonder why i keep using windows on my main desktop if proton allows playing most anything i play
It wasn't always that way, but I'm glad proton is great now!
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I only read of the rocky starts, i got mine with the recent steam sale at 10% off for the 64GB. Just need to get it a bigger SSD and I’ll be all set!
I just picked up the corsairs mp600 1tb and an nvme enclosure to clone my drive for about 130 all together.
I used Linux before Steam came to Linux, those were the good old days where every game required tinkering in WINE. I actually didn't have a Steam account until it came to Linux, and then I played only a handful of Linux-native games (Rocket League was one of them).
When Proton came to Steam, a whole new world opened up, and now I can basically assume a game will work and I'll be right more often than not.
So from my perspective, it wasn't a rocky start at all, but a gradual widening of my gaming library. I've since played a ton more games, so I've rewarded Steam for the effort.
I spent ages thinking that I'd found a title that didn't work, getting barely double-digit frame rates in the 3D hub area.
And about two months later I realised that what I'd actually done was lock the laptop into low power mode with the CPU and GPU being way underclocked and locked to that regardless of load. One metaphorical switch flip later, 60+ fps.
A 1tb microSD card is a pretty good compromise. Its just as fast as ssd storage and significantly easier to install.
I would have to disagree that any sdcard is as fast as an SSD.
Maybe a really fast sdcard and a really slow SSD?
Edit: oh maybe that is a steam-deck-specific thing? It's the SSD connection over USB2 or something?
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I actually just installed Linux on my gaming PC and it's mostly been a good experience.
Same. I didn't play on a Windows machine for almost a year and half.
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Ahh, the Steam Deck, the SBC handheld that I can't afford yet.
I just play ports on my switch and pretend.
I don't have a Steam Deck, but I just made the transition to fully running Arch on my gaming rig. So far everything just works.
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Steamdeck made me sell my desktop! I still have an entry-level gaming laptop if I need it but 90% of my PC gaming is on the deck now
If Linux gets support from Abode so I can ditch Photoshop, I’ll be there.
Adobe may never do this. You might have some luck looking into alternative apps to the ones you work with.
There are some very compelling, cross platform, FOSS alternatives to Photoshop (GIMP, Krita), Illustrator (Inkscape), InDesign (Scribus), maybe premier pro (Davinci Resolve isn't FOSS, but it is cross platform. You can also try shortcut, openshot, kdenlive but they're not as advanced).
One thing I miss, however, is the interoperability between Adobe apps. Like copying a vector from illustrator into an InDesign document. I couldn't do the same between Inkscape and Scribus
Abode. Think your brain autofilled that.
Abode is an alternative suite being developed by Culture Hustle, the company started by Stuart Semple, and who made the blackest black and pinkest pink paints, aswell as who ported the Pantone catalog after that whole fiasco.
Such a poor choice of name. And I feel bad for all the people dumb enough to give him money for it thinking they’ll get anything close to photoshop.
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Scribus can't be a replacement until Master Pages work like they do in InDesign.
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If you don't need Photoshop for actual work, then running it under Wine is a viable option. CC 2019 (20.0) works fine for the most part, but you need to install it in Windows first and copy over the installed folder. CC 2023 also works, but there's no GPU acceleration support (yet).
Honestly I hope the next couple of years see more Proton work for supporting Adobe (legit copies or otherwise heheh) so more users can migrate over.
Inkscape has improved a lot with its newest version and I pray that GIMP will speed up dev soon so maybe that'll make up for the lack of Adobe stuff
Yeah I want Gimp to be good so bad but I've been waiting for like 20 years and it never seems to change...i really want a Photoshop and Lightroom ripoff for Linux.
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Imagine paying a subscription; use Affinity Photo and Designer as these are very viable alternatives without the subscription. GIMP is not a good alternative despite it being free :(
Who said anything about paying? :P
I agree GIMP isn't great, but Krita is everything I ever wanted. It completely replaces Photoshop for me.
If you've ever spent any time in Photoshop you know gimp is garbage in comparison. Photopea is better than gimp.
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I just bought a new NVME SSD as I need to reinstall Windows anyway. I am seriously considering at least dual booting Windows and Linux or just going full Linux at once. You guys in here and the Linux community on Lemmy show me that it is possible to escape Windows without too much trouble, even for a Linux newb like me.
Okay, I am not a complete newb, I have set up a few Raspberry Pis and do run a unRAID server, but I have never seriously used Linux as a daily driver on my desktop or laptop.
Dual boot on separate disks is pretty nice. You can even load up your Windows install inside a VM on your Linux drive
That sounds genius. The new drive is a 2TB NVME and the old is a 1TB NVME so that is totally a possibility.
I am using single GPU VFIO passthrough and it's good enough to game on, especially if you also pin your CPU threads in the VM. You will lose a little bit of performance but if you really need that extra power you can just switch to bare metal Windows using dual boot
If you don't want the full bloated Windows I can recommend that you check out ReviOS
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Yes, join us! But srsly, quite a lot of games work great with proton on Linux. You can always check protondb.com for compability :)
Anyone play factorio on this thing?
It's runs really well, actually. I don't have any solid numbers because I wasn't really into that side of it, but I had a fairly large base going, about 20 hours past endgame (no where near a megabase, though) and no performance issues.
I'd started dualbooting with NobaraOS about a year ago, and recently deleted windows entirely. I haven't run into a game I want to play yet that isn't compatible.
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It honestly makes me wonder why i keep using windows on my main desktop if proton allows playing most anything i play
I was asking myself the same question. Then I installed Linux on my desktop and I have never been happier
I find myself using desktop mode more on the Deck while docked than my Windows computer, that's connected to the same monitor. Still trying to learn how to use programs like Bottles correctly, but once I do, I'm getting rid of the Windows computer.
What game is that? Looks like Blizzard game, maybe Diablo? 4? Never seen D4 before.
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My only issue with Proton are crash and rendering issues related to ray tracing on certain games (probably Nvidia's fault). Also, Halo master chief collection crash after a few minutes gameplay, but that's might have something to do with the game being made by Microsoft. Other than that, it's perfect. Even DLSS is working fine too.
I use Proton (Linux) for games where my hardware is overkill or my FPS is good enough.
But in games where the hardware is maxed and the FPS is below my preference. I use windows because there is still sometimes like a 10%-20% loss by running windows stuff from Linux.
In Steam Deck could be different because it's more optimised maybe. There are exceptions that run better on Linux I understand (example: same FPS but less stuttering).
What game and device is this? I need it!
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