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I'm never going back. If something changes and the only option is Windows or consoles I'll just stop buying new games or take up another hobby.

Being able to use sane scripting to solve problems, ZFS snapshots to undo bad mod installs, using the same system for development, and so on is no longer something I'm willing to give up. I've also started amassing a small collection of Cloud Init configs that set up game servers inside LXD containers. Some of these have native Linux binaries but a few only have Windows servers. They run perfectly well through Wine.

Anyone here even vaguely interested, I encourage you to just try it. I use Ubuntu and it works great on both AMD and Nvidia cards for me. What have you got to lose?

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The only thing that is keeping me from switching on my home PC is Duo [1].

It allows my wife to play Stardew Valley on the TV via game streaming, while not disturbing my work at all on the PC. When she launches the game, I don't even notice it on my PC, meanwhile other solutions like Sunshine or Apollo do not let you use your computer while a gaming session is active on a client. Sadly, Duo is Windows only for now, which sucks.

Does anybody know a alternative for Linux that would work this way?

1. https://github.com/DuoStream/Duo

I poked around a bit, and this might do what you want: https://github.com/Steam-Headless/docker-steam-headless

Wow, that actually might seem like a viable alternative. Thanks a bunch, will check it out!

Tried to play dota 2 on Linux, it has a bad memory leak that made the whole system hang after an hour or two. Plus it seems to get worse fps on Vulcan, but I read that it might just be a bad implementation in my card (6650 xt)

I often find that Linux native games (Dota is one such) run worse than Windows games running under Proton. For many of them, you can just force it to play via Proton and go along with your day, but the Valve competitive ones don’t work that way since VAC will cry about it.

Also tried that, but I did not noticed the memory leak problem, since I only played about 1 hour. There are other minor issues about using Linux, for example, my input method does not work in the Steam chat window, but works everywhere else. Anyway, Linux is much more cleaner than Windows and it is a overall better development environment, I prefer it over Windows now.

Pop OS! With NVIDIA GPU here.

Shit just works. When it doesn't, changing the proton version usually fixes it.

Way better than Windows.

Same setup here, one game setup I've hit but this will be a rare problem, is StarCraft Remastered. Wine has an issue with audio processing which I can't seem to configure my way out of. It pegs all 32 threads and still stutters. Thankfully this game can likely run on an actual potato, so I have a separate mini PC running windows for this when I want to get my ass kicked on battle.net.

I've stopped even checking protondb before getting a game these days. Pretty much unless they've gone out of their way to make it not work (which is mostly competitive games, so you can tell beforehand), it works.

I realize by posting that here on HN I'm tempting people to send me the ProtonDB garbage tier list, but it's true for the types of games I play.

Also have the same setup. Very few issues. Been very happy with the switch

I must be the one Data Scientist in the world whose PopOS has twice failed to boot after updates. To the point I have give up on it.

My stack is so vanilla (nvidia, python, R) I can’t think what the issue is. Maybe hardware.

Give Fedora a shot. You can run that cosmic desktop on it.

Thanks for the advice. I spend 99.99% of my time in a terminal, a browser and vscode.

The graphical environment is neither here nor there for me, I just want to do an update and cuda libraries/nvidia drivers not break and for my OS to boot!

The beta based on 24.04 ubuntu or the stable which is still based on 22.04? Not that it wasn't nice when i used it, but it is very much outdated at this point from the regular packages perspective

26.04 will be a huge upgrade if you stay

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