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By getting the hell off of 10. Move to 11, or give Linux a try.
For gaming?
In what way is that better?
Low-key yeah for gaming. Depending on the games. Some benchmarks are coming back with sizeable performance boosts under the (better-optimized) Linux in some scenarios despite the API layer of Wine.
Can’t play a lot of games with anti-cheat on Linux.
I wouldn’t say a lot. Really just a handful.
Okay, but I like the games that do have it so…
Alright then?
So Linux for gaming isn’t really a full option unfortunately. It’s just frustrating to have it constantly recommended when quite frankly, the Linux catalogue has to take multiplayer games into account and yet that part is always ignored initially until it’s brought up in comments. The suggestion should be qualified with single player only or very limited multiplayer, mostly to those with explicit Linux support.
Great on Deck, though! Not great for multiplayer games unless it’s supported via GeForce Now and you’re okay with that latency in your online games.
Linux is great for many things. It can also be great for gaming in many cases, but it currently is not the end all be all for gaming. Especially in a thread someone asking about Windows of all things…
Tl;Dr multiplayer always gets forgotten by people suggesting Linux, ironic considering that’s the sole breaking point for gaming on Linux these days. It can be frustrating as someone who enjoys both single and multiplayer games, where my single player games are played mostly on Deck and everything else is on desktop, I can’t exactly switch over to Linux when the games I want to play don’t work. Going looking for answers, Linux just isn’t it this time.
Because that’s very disingenuous when like 95%+ of your multiplayer games work on it. It’s really just some shitty kernel level anti cheats, which is like Valorant, COD (I think?), Tarkov, and a few others I don’t play or really care about.
Sure, but there are thousands of games. Tons of options. Meh. I already have more than I could play in my lifetime.
If you have to install a rootkit to play a game, they’re not worth paying on Windows, either.
I play most games on Linux, but for anti-cheat Games I have a hardened Windows virtual machine in KVM with GPU passthrough. It works surprisingly well.