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is it better to do a dual boot or use a software like wine for playing some video games

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Just now, sphixy said:

idk some indie games (game that dont need a lot of peformance)

well if thats the case you can get away with wine

granted compatibility is not guaranteed but most incompatibilities are from anti cheat software so most games that do not use        anti cheat software most definitely will work

i myself played a handful of (older) AAA game on my ancient laptop with wine

aslo a tech tip when playing a game in linux if possible set the rendering api to directx11 it will get you better performance  

hello i want to use linux for my new pc but i dont know if its better to do a dualboot with window or use a compatiblity layer . what is the best option ?

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your answer is a very solid and strong:

 

it depends

what games exactly?

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Dual boot. 

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Tout à l'heure, Mahyar a dit:

votre réponse est un très solide et fort:

 

ça dépend

quels jeux exactement?

idk some indie games (game that dont need a lot of peformance)

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Just now, sphixy said:

idk some indie games (game that dont need a lot of peformance)

well if thats the case you can get away with wine

granted compatibility is not guaranteed but most incompatibilities are from anti cheat software so most games that do not use        anti cheat software most definitely will work

i myself played a handful of (older) AAA game on my ancient laptop with wine

aslo a tech tip when playing a game in linux if possible set the rendering api to directx11 it will get you better performance  

if it was useful give it a like :) btw if your into linux pay a visit here

 

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8 minutes ago, mahyar said:

well if thats the case you can get away with wine

granted compatibility is not guaranteed but most incompatibilities are from anti cheat software so most games that do not use        anti cheat software most definitely will work

i myself played a handful of (older) AAA game on my ancient laptop with wine

aslo a tech tip when playing a game in linux if possible set the rendering api to directx11 it will get you better performance  

thanks for the very quick reply

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I personally dual boot. Wine/Proton are both still at a state of infancy, and a lot of games don't bother making dedicated Linux versions. A lot of games that happen to use weird dependencies, or anti-cheat would probably have issues and/or not run at all. Additionally you'll probably experience various bugs and issues which, if you're not very Linux-savvy, would be almost impossible to debug and fix. I also experienced quite a lot of lag and issues with VR when running under Linux.

 

I simply use Windows for all my gaming needs. Simply waiting for a minute to reboot is so much easier than trying to get stuff to run via Wine/Proton when it doesn't "just work".

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10 minutes ago, Princess Luna said:

I personally dual boot. Wine/Proton are both still at a state of infancy, and a lot of games don't bother making dedicated Linux versions. A lot of games that happen to use weird dependencies, or anti-cheat would probably have issues and/or not run at all. Additionally you'll probably experience various bugs and issues which, if you're not very Linux-savvy, would be almost impossible to debug and fix. I also experienced quite a lot of lag and issues with VR when running under Linux.

 

I simply use Windows for all my gaming needs. Simply waiting for a minute to reboot is so much easier than trying to get stuff to run via Wine/Proton when it doesn't "just work".

i dont really want to try to setup dual boot beacause i dont want to make somthing wrong and it make my pc unusable i think i will try wine and if it dont work i will try the dual boot

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Well, I agree with mahyar and others in this thread - it really depends on what you are doing on the computer, your priorities, and also heavily on what games you play. Depending on the titles and your luck, experiences may vary =).

 

As someone gaming on Linux since the early 2000s (!), things have improved a lot since then. I'm also someone who can easily do and doesn't mind doing a few tweaks here and there. However, some games work just fine out-of-the-box without any tweaks (with Proton and/or Wine,), some games have native ports and those numbers have been steadily albeit slowly increasing over the year - though, I must admit, some ports are poorly done / optimized, some are excellent.

 

What I would suggest, since I've gathered you've determined you want to install some Linux distribution in any case, just try it! If you're lucky (with the titles you want to play), you don't need to dual boot, but if some game doesn't work because of incompatibility issues, boot into Windows. You can do both - they're not mutually exclusive 😉

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7 hours ago, Wild Penquin said:

Well, I agree with mahyar and others in this thread - it really depends on what you are doing on the computer, your priorities, and also heavily on what games you play. Depending on the titles and your luck, experiences may vary =).

 

As someone gaming on Linux since the early 2000s (!), things have improved a lot since then. I'm also someone who can easily do and doesn't mind doing a few tweaks here and there. However, some games work just fine out-of-the-box without any tweaks (with Proton and/or Wine,), some games have native ports and those numbers have been steadily albeit slowly increasing over the year - though, I must admit, some ports are poorly done / optimized, some are excellent.

 

What I would suggest, since I've gathered you've determined you want to install some Linux distribution in any case, just try it! If you're lucky (with the titles you want to play), you don't need to dual boot, but if some game doesn't work because of incompatibility issues, boot into Windows. You can do both - they're not mutually exclusive 😉

i decided to make a usb bootable for linux and having windows ten directly in my hard drive (i think its the best idea)

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6 hours ago, sphixy said:

i decided to make a usb bootable for linux and having windows ten directly in my hard drive (i think its the best idea)

Keep in mind your usb based distro won't save anything you do in it after a reboot. There are ways to make a usb drive based install persistent though.

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On 4/22/2021 at 3:42 PM, sphixy said:

i dont really want to try to setup dual boot beacause i dont want to make somthing wrong and it make my pc unusable i think i will try wine and if it dont work i will try the dual boot

Dual booting is super easy with distros like Mint, Ubuntu, or Pop OS. The installers literally take care of everything for you. Just install windows first, boot to a linux usb, resize shrink the windows partition, and hit install.

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On 4/23/2021 at 12:20 PM, sphixy said:

i decided to make a usb bootable for linux and having windows ten directly in my hard drive (i think its the best idea)

That is a great way to try out a linux distro, some distros like Tails primarily run from a usb, but you will be limited to the speed of your usb drive. Additionally, unless you get a distro that is made to run from a usb, most of them do not have persistence. That means saved files and preferences are only available until you turn your computer off

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