Dealing with games that just won't run on Linux (lemmy.zip)

submitted 3 months ago by RadDevon@lemmy.zip to c/linux_gaming@lemmy.ml

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How are people coping with games that just won't run on Linux (aside from leaving them behind)? Do you dual boot Windows? Virtualize? What's your strategy for this?

This will be extremely rare for me since I don't play a lot of competitive stuff, but I'd love to find a solution. I have a large library, and it's bound to happen from time to time.

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[-] GustavoM@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

A "ez" solution would be simply stay on Windows and leave Linux as a novelty. A somewhat complicated solution -- double booting (apparently Windows can be a privacy nightmare even while dual-booting). A quite hard one would be installing Linux and running Windows on a VM with GPU passthrough. The "are you bleeping kidding me?" approach would be buying another PC just to run Linux while leaving your "main" PC for Windows.

"Is there a sane approach for this?" -- yep, there is! Which is, buying a console and use it solely for gaming while leaving your main PC for daily browsing and everything else (i.e Linux).

[-] Nutteman@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago

To march into a thread asking about what they can do with their PC to play as many games as possible just to tell them to drop several hundred dollars on a console that will only be able to play games available on that console is a bold move

[-] stufkes@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

Tbf 80% of responses here are just "don't play the games that don't run" which is just as helpful.

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