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The amount of bullshit there is to make things work is... not that bad. When it comes to games, I just can't. Having to reboot just to fix common FPS issues is too much. I've had a bunch of things that require a config change, which then has caused other issues.

The state of Linux Desktop is the best it has ever been and I'll be back the moment Wayland works better. I love Linux, but for now, it's not working out for me... Just needed to vent, thanks for reading.

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[–] [email protected] 41 points 3 months ago (15 children)

I've been 100% linux for my daily home computing for over a year now... With one exception... To be honest I didn't even try particularly hard to make gaming work under Linux.

Instead I have a Windows VM - setup with full passthrough access to my GPU and it's own NVME - just for Windows gaming. To my mind now it's in the same category as running console emulation.

As soon as I click shutdown in windows, it pops me straight back into my Linux desktop.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

Fucking Hackerman. Is there a way to display the VM's output in a window/fullscreen on Linux today? The last time I tried this, I had to have a separate cable from the passed-thru (secondary) GPU to another input in my monitor.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Looking-glass.io is what most use for that

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Ooh, that project was not usable back when I tried VFIO. Nice.

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