Hi,

I recently built a new gaming computer and have been contemplating about the OS.

I prefer to move away from windows given obvious reasons and do like using Linux, but my experience with my steam deck has taught me that pirating games in Linux is hit or miss.

I played around with windows LTSC and honestly, seems like windows without the bloatware.

So question is, how is game pirating on Linux (in a desktop, not steam deck).

Is it as smooth as windows or should I just say fuck it and accept that my gaming computer has to stay windows for another generation?

  • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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    7 hours ago

    Did you try Desktop Mode on the Deck? Makes things a lot easier. Haven’t had much issue with things like this with my Steam Deck, but on Linux PC, I’ve had none. Ever. Try Bazzite, it’s built for gaming.

    I would just Google, “using bottles/lutris to install game on Linux” and I imagine you could find people walking through it.

    • Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.worksOPEnglish
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      7 hours ago

      Oh yeah, I really liked desktop mode.

      Went a little crazy with my deck and setup things like remote play to my ps5 and a dev environment in case I wanted to do some coding on the go.

      I did get some games working, but it wasn’t plug and play like windows, sounds like it just takes some tinkering which is great to hear.