>0 mpisco @ 2025/01/22 17:53
A while ago (circa 2021-2022) I used to use Arch Linux as my main OS for playing games and doing everything. I (barely) had proton in Steam, but I didn't really use to play a lot of Steam games, I was really into Minecraft. Later, since Proton didn't have access for games with anticheat (which I wanted to play with my friends), I moved to the (then-recently created) Windows 11, which for some reason didn't glitch on me like it did on everyone. But I stuck to it. In order to avoid dual booting (because sharing my files is somewhat kind of annoying between Windows and Linux, because NTFS support sucks) stuck to using WSL. It's been doing great. Does anyone else do this? Or is it just me? PS: I get that proton nowadays has support for a lot of games, but still doesn't have anticheat support, but there are ways to bypass that anticheat requirement. I just don't want to have to have that work for EVERY SINGLE ANTICHEAT GAME.
>1 scarecat @ 2025/05/07 20:25
When i got my new laptop i used to just have win11 + wsl, but right now i am dual booting it with arch. The experience is great - i didn't have to use windows outside of a VM for ages now, and have been considering removing it entirely. I understand your reasoning though - I do not play online games with anticheat, so I don't have the same issue. And sharing files isn't as much of an issue on the Linux side, although unfortunately WSL doesn't support mounting subpartitions of the same physical drive :( I am using a SysInternals Linux Reader in a case where i absolutely need to retrieve linux files from windows
>2 abilu @ 2025/06/30 02:58
>>OP i dont like win11 or windows in general but i dont care what you use. use what you like,be confortable,and thats all!
>3 leach @ 2025/07/10 23:48
>>OP I have mostly used OS X throughout my life but recently got a windows comptuer to play video games on. I personally don't like windows very much but have been learning it more as I've been using this computer. For any dev work I just use wsl, eventually I may daul boot but I primarily use this computer for games so I doubt I'll mess with it for a while
>4 thisisjaymehta @ 2025/07/11 12:42
I use WSL for dev related work when I need Linux. But I just like Windows 11 better. People generally frawn at that but I dont know, its just works great for me. Win 11 + VS Code. 🔥
>5 rdlmda @ 2025/07/17 13:44
>>OP I had brief contact with Linux back in around the early '00s. When Knoppix first started allowing you to boot Linux from CDs, a local distro appeared and then briefly later I heard about this newfangled thing called Ubuntu, they'd even send you physical media if you filled a form on your site! (I might even have some still lying around at some drawer, to this day) But it wasn't until I started working on a place that used Linux on all servers and workstations that I started using it daily at home. At first it was a dual boot system with Windows 8, but gradually I saw myself using Windows less and less, and here am I a decade and half later and I think the last time I even touched a windows install was before Windows 10 was released. After all these years, the only times I missed Windows were when trying to play videogames, but thanks to Proton and Lutris even those are less and less frequent and things like the Steam Deck and Valve's investments it'll be even better in the future.
>6 werdl @ 2025/07/17 17:38
My laptop is unbearably slow with Windows 11, but with Linux and OpenBSD it runs very smoothly. Additionally, I would hate using non-FOSS software like Windows. I try to run only run FOSS where possible (exception made for my AX200 wifi).