I do dual boot windows and play bf6. Windows has its own 500GB hard drive for things like that and Linux has 4TB for everything else. I do wish I could just run Linux only though. Some day…

I get the sentiment but the article is more targeted at the PC gaming crowd that isn't exactly tech-illiterate but probably only knows Linux from memes about it requiring you to recompile a kernel to install Chrome or some other BS like that

I think a good portion of Lemmy and the fediverse already know it's been at this level for a long while now but I'm excited to see articles like this since it means the tide is turning against Windows for the average user

Big if true.

Valorant DaddleDew,
Doth proudly proclaim.
Sees that the sea is due
To torrential rain.

Dew truly polymath,
Paragon of deep.
Scrolls Lemmy in the bath
And nods right off to sleep.

i think this bravery is worthy of a marble carving. 12 stories tall, of you pointing at the ocean

I heard somewhere that by the time the scientific community officially announces life on mars the rest of us will have already concluded that there is life on mars. I feel like this is the same thing.

I have been a user since around 2000, I work in Linux every day, and I get where you're coming from - but in the context of gaming Linux has really only recently come into its own.

Like, could you imagine, circa 2010, telling a naive user that practically their whole Steam library would work with one click? Wine has always been a minor miracle, but at some point there was an inversion between being surprised when it worked, and being surprised that it didn't work...

It's funny. I also was very hesitant to make the jump from Windows, but finally did in 2025. I was dual booting for a while until I realized I hadn't been into the Windows one in months because it was a pain in the ass for various reasons. So I just got rid of it.

I've made peace with the fact that I won't be able to play certain games. Their loss; there's plenty of other games to buy with my money.

I also have a spare windows drive for BF6, but it's so unbelievably mid that in practice I don't really even play it

Do you have an OSD for active refresh rate built into your displays? FreeSync / VRR can be managed directly by your DE settings

hdr works fairly easy now. Not sure about default proton but ge and probably some of the other variants like cachy have it mostly built in. I just use ge-latest for everything via proton plus until a game doesn't work with it before tryig others.

game settings go to launch options and put in:

PROTON_ENABLE_WAYLAND=1 PROTON_ENABLE_HDR=1 %command%

monitor settings make sure hdr is enabled.

I only do dual monitor now but whenever a game can't be on the right screen or does weird sizing shit:

alt+enter/f11 and drag to correct monitor, or

windowed, move to other screen, borderless/fullscreen, or

borderless, taskbar right click and select move then drag to other screen, or

select other monitor from ingame settings

If none of those work it could also be a native linux build which while nice to have tends not to be consistent across games, and forcing proton will redownload as the windows version which I've found will have different screen behaviours compared to native in a lot of games.

Freesync should be in monitor settings if its detected by the system. I've only confirmed it a few times working with ge proton as I don't have many games that both have it and that I remembered to check for it. Usually I do the deck thing even on my desktop and find a config that can hold 90/60/45/30 and set the refresh equal or double manually.

The multiple monitor thing has been an issue for years. Ive had to disable multi display at times to get games to run. Its just one of those things that will be flakey for another 10 years.

Is HDR even worth any effort? I never tried it.