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deepflows  ·  3139 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Updates Make Windows 7 and 8 Spy on You Like Windows 10

Gaming is looking a lot better in linux these days. A surprising number of steam games are actually native now, but more importantly, wine (which I use with playonlinux as easy-mode) actually works pretty damn well. I've been able to start various games simply by doing "right click -> open with -> wine" on an .exe in my home directory. Apparently, DX11 support is coming to wine later this year.

Up until today, I simply dual-booted for the two games which absolutely wouldn't work in Linux (Arma 3 and DayZ). I noticed that I couldn't be bothered to boot into crappy old windows to play them and there are better ways to fill that hdd space, though. Still, if there are any Windows-only games you really like, dual-booting for a while might be an option.

I'm a complete newbie myself compared to long-time linux guys, but I'll still be happy to help in any way I can if you decide to go penguin.