I remember when Proton launched it was like magic playing games like Doom and Nier Automata straight from the Linux Steam client with excellent performance. I do not miss the days of having the Windows version of Steam installed separately.

  • caustictrap@lemmy.world
    815·
    1 year ago

    But as a person who uses both windows and linux, Windows is a super stable os if you do some powershell tweaks (for bloat, ads, updates) and you can also bring the best things from the linux world like package managers, stability etc.

    Windows can run all games and i dont have to worry if a game is going to have proton problems.

      • caustictrap@lemmy.world
        22·
        1 year ago

        I would have know this when i said this on Lemmy + linux community. I would actually consider my phone running android/ios to be a greater threat to my privacy than my gaming pc

        With a powershell tweaks you never have to worry about those broken updates.

        • 1847953620@lemmy.world
          1·
          1 year ago

          I run grapheneOS for that reason, though that’s besides the point. One thing being bad doesn’t make another less bad. And you’d still have to worry about janky updates, you’re just minimizing the risk, and mitigating the risk of bad updates by putting in a delay and only doing critical and security updates comes with a compromise to increasing vulnerability.

          Bad OS is bad ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

      • Aux@lemmy.world
        26·
        1 year ago

        Just like Linux! But sadly Windows doesn’t deliver 3rd party backdoors and viruses automatically yet.

        • QuazarOmega@lemy.lol
          11·
          1 year ago

          …yeah, Windows prefers delivering 1st party backdoors and viruses.
          Jokes aside, what are you referring to with that, where are you pulling your packages from not be vetted?

            • QuazarOmega@lemy.lol
              2·
              1 year ago

              Thanks, that’s actually valid!
              I think one of the commenters there said it best:

              It’s almost like the maintainers who curate a distribution repository have an important role preventing such a thing…

              Repositories where anyone can release packages to the end-users may be convenient for developers who want more control over what the user gets, but it has a host of negative consequences for the user. It always ends in malware and anti-features getting distributed eventually.

              (link)

              And it looks like it’s being handled decently by Canonical. I don’t like Snap, but I gotta say they’re doing a good job overall

    • wagesj45@kbin.social
      3·
      1 year ago

      Windows can run all games

      Tell that to some of the games I want to play. Splinter Cell - Blacklist, I’m looking at you.