Using a different version of WINE/Proton could work. It may also depend on some extra utilities you need to install on your WINE prefix (Wine tricks is the tool to use for this). If that doesn’t work, the almost guaranteed to work option is a virtual machine running Windows. This comes with a small performance hit, but that may not be a concern.
The first thing I’ll say is the reason you’re more comfortable with Windows is because you’ve been using it for however long and learning to deal with the issues it has. The same needs to be done on Linux. You’ll have to learn how it works just like you forgot you did for Windows.
Second, along with logs like other users said, you have to know how to use a search engine well. Most issues will be easy to solve, but some may take some searching. The Arch wiki is a good resource even if you aren’t using Arch.
Maybe. It’s unlikely except for multiplayer, and even then pretty rare. The Riot games won’t work because of the rootkit, but nearly everything else has. Protondb.com if you want to check or ever need help getting something to run.
Have you tried it yet? Try installing Proton on your Linux install and pointing Steam to your existing folder that you use on Windows. It should be able to just boot them up like that without an issue.
Just a word of warning, Windows may fuck your dual boot plans up with an update. I lost all the data for my filesystems on my main drive with a Windows update. It decided to delete grub and the partition data. I recovered a lot of it, but I was never able to get Windows to boot again. That’s why I’m 100% Linux now. I just decided Windows wasn’t required anymore and installed everything fresh, and gave 100% of the drive to Linux.
I would assume Steam to be lower because gaming was one of the major roadblocks for gaming until recently, and many gamers are still scared of switching over. It also assumes no dual booting and whatever they ran the check on is the registered OS. This would register both potentially.
Team’s data is also useful, but it’s different data.
There are margins of error I’m sure, but you’re just making things up.
Linux users tend to give much better bug reports than Windows users (if they do at all). That alone is probably a good enough reason to do Linux first. There are many more good reasons when the first goal is getting it functional and not getting as many users as possible (who will probably hate it if they’re not a technically skilled user because there will be bugs).
You’re making an assumption their first priority is the number of users. I would suspect that isn’t true, and they’re aware Windows has more users.
It probably wasn’t my first one because I have been playing games younger than I can remember, but the first one I remember playing is The Lion King. You don’t forget playing that game. Who the hell thought it was a good idea to make a game about a kid’s movie so damn difficult?
Well, achktually SUDO stands for “substitute-user do.” The default action just happens to be the super user, but you can substitute any user.
Manga exhibition. That’s a pretty obvious clue. It’s a pornography device. For example, when you type 58008 into it and turn it upside down it makes boobs appear on it.
They can. It’s a lot harder and different though. It requires emulating the server software and replicating it. It won’t be the same servers as the main game, and also usually requires knowledge of something not provided with the game.
Well, MMOs don’t really need DRM. They mostly just need anti-cheat. The server can check for legit ownership or not. Usually it’s only single-player games that get cracked.
Yeah, modding you mostly have to do manually, but it’s pretty easy. Most modern games that’s just moving a bunch of folders into a folder the game has. Nexus is working on a Linux version though so hopefully that’ll be ready soon, which should cover the majority of games.
As for running the games (not emulation, WINE stands for Wine Is Not an Emulator), you don’t really have to do anything. They almost all just work. You just click play through Steam (or whatever you’re using to play, Lutris is a good option outside of Steam) and they launch, just like in Windows. You can choose to tweak things, but there’s no real need unless you want to do something weird.
It’s more idiot friendly than you’d expect. You just have to enter it knowing it isn’t Windows, so some thing will work differently than Windows. If you expect identical behavior to Windows then it can be annoying. You had to learn Windows at one point too, and you’ll have to learn how your Linux environment behaves too.
I would recommend something with KDE (a desktop environment), because it’s easy to use coming from a Windows user. Maybe Fedora. Just try it with a live USB and see how it feels. You don’t even have to install it immediately.
The Arch wiki is also great.
Yeah, relative. From ~4% to ~4.4%.
10% growth in 1 month is huge. If that keeps up then everyone will be on Linux soon.
It makes sense that Steam is lower, since gaming historically has been one of the biggest things keeping people from switching. That’s no longer the case, but it’ll take time to convert people.
Yeah, that’s true. Modding does suck. KSP has good Linux support for modding, but I think that’s the only one that I haven’t had to do manually. Manual modding is not hard though, but it does take more time.
No, it’s a comic.