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I've been out of the Windows world for years, but seeing a lot of games are now available on Linux, and drivers, why not build a Linux gaming PC?

I mean what else would you need a PC with Windows for?

This ReviOS stuff has all the smoke signals of too good to be true.

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I want less hassle, not more.

Linux still has a very long way to go in gaming - some things still require a bunch of tweaking, some games suffer from poor frame rates or just plain don’t work at all. Also I vastly prefer the windows desktop experience to any Linux distribution I’ve tried over the years.

I don't know, works on my machine. Basically any game I play works immediately out of the box. Last bigger issues I remember is Elden Ring crashing when opening sometimes.

Otherwise it all just works immediately, no issues at all.

Have you tried again in recent years?

Today it is much more of a binary experience. A game either runs smoothly out of the box or does not run at all. And the latter is the exception, not the rule.

If you need to run MS Office, 3D CAD or animation software, the Adobe suite, and other things, you need Windows. As much as I'd like it if Linux became the default, WINE just doesn't cut it for every program yet

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