Alright, I installed Linux

Alright, I installed Linux.
What now? I don't notice that much of a difference other than a bunch of games not working properly until I look up a guide how to unfuck it and the other rest not working at all

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dont run games natively on linux if they dont explicitly support it.
spin up a quemu vm with windows installed and pass through your graphics card.
its how i do it.
i have a two ssds in my pc. one has my linux install and one has windows installed. i have a quemu vm running off that windows install just for gaming. i have a bunch of games on my linux install too but most i just run on windows. i also havea 870gtx that i pass through and like 8 cores of my r5 1600 and 8 gigs of my 16gigs that i also give to the vm.
shit just works and runs like a dream and i get to have the best of both worlds.

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Now you help make other games work for Linux

>he fell for the linux meme

lmao

Why have a VM when you have Windows installed anyways?

What?

>proton makes almost every game on steam work
>a huge chunk of games worth playing on steam already work natively
>he isn't using his linux OS as a hypervisor to run the remaining games on a Virtual Machine running windows

LMAOing at your life.

>Linux "gaming"
the only Linux distro worth a shit in regards to gaming is Android

>Why have a VM when you have Windows installed anyways?
so it runs in a virtualized environment and does not affect the rest of my system in any way.
also windows has this nasty habit of overwriting the bootloader of all hard drives it can find everytime it updates.
im tired of running super grub disc every time that happens.

did you have to do anything to get your nivida card to work in the VM? I was trying to get it set up the other day and it kept failing to graphics card drivers within the VM.

nope had no issues really. all i had to do make sure the pci-e lanes are in their proper iommu groupings.
thats probably your issue. you can do it as a kernel module or via simple grub edit.
im running arch linux and using qemu and had to do nothing except enable virtualization for my cpu in my bios. my iommu groups were already set up from the get go.

>What now?
spend hours googling how to make things work, keep finding new problems, get bored and move back to windows

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you install lutris and play games

oh i forgot something. if you have a ryzen system and a b350 chipset motherboard you actually need to update your bios as they didnt ship with the capability to do iommu groupings. that came later. ryzen can do it but the first gen motherboards didnt have software support for it.

Beat me to it.

Not sure what Linux is good for these days.

There is literally no reason to use Linux except to feel a false sense of superiority by telling people you use Linux.

>Alright, I installed Linux.
>What now?
you're supposed to research an OS before you install it just like buying or trying any ordinary product. stop doing shit in the wrong order. read the operation manual, google things

what in the fuck man

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Oh, so you boot Windows through the VM?
I don't really get the difference if you would boot Windows just for games anyways.
Do you get any perfomance losses by gaming through a VM?

I'm trying to figure Lutris out. So far the only game I got running properly was Witcher and only because I had it install through my GOG Account.
When I tried Morrowind which I already had installed, it crashed because of some music error.
Nex Machina didn't run either

now you learn c++

You can use GPU passthrough, but running shit through a VM is still going to have more overhead than having the OS run on bare metal.
Why don't you get an additional drive and throw Windows on that with its own boot loader?

good reply

>Alright, I installed Linux
Why?

You always hear how Linux is better so I gave it a shot.
>muh Information
So, Microsoft just knows that I stopped browsing and looking at porn but only boot my PC to play a game and shut it off.
I'm pretty sure other companies still get to gather my information anyways.
>Why don't you get an additional drive and throw Windows on that with its own boot loader?
I still have my Windows, I just installed Linux on a different drive.
Both are installed on SSDs and use dualboot, doesn't take long to switch in case I want to play games that don't work at all

>Alright, I installed Linux.
>What now?
Now you reflect on why you should plan ahead instead of just diving into something in which it turns out you have no interest.

Just kidding. I know you didn't actually install Linux. You're just shitposting to get a reaction out of Linux users.

If you only use your pc to play gaymes why would you install Linux? What's wrong with you?

>Do you get any performance losses by gaming through a VM?

If you were to make a VM normally, yes. But if you set a few things up, you will have it so that your graphics card is being directly run by the VM and most of your system resources are devoted to running the VM.

A big difference is that if windows starts acting funky, you delete the current copy of the VM you are running and use the backup. It takes seconds while duel booting requires that you reinstall windows when it starts getting fucky. You also lock out almost every form of malware, microsoft, and other trackers from accessing the rest of your computer.

Booting normally to windows gives anything access to your entire computer. Booting on a VM and anything is contained within that VM.

Running Linux doesn't require that much effort.
Basically the same shit except you might have to use the terminal once in a while but that's kind of cool I guess and also not that hard. Copypaste most of the time
>You're just shitposting to get a reaction out of Linux users.
Yeah, who else would reply? People who don't use Linux?
Dunno, I wanted to give it a try. The other option would've been playing videogames

>You also lock out almost every form of malware, microsoft, and other trackers from accessing the rest of your computer.
Oh, right. Forgot about that shit
>But if you set a few things up, you will have it so that your graphics card is being directly run by the VM and most of your system resources are devoted to running the VM.
But what about the gpu? I mean it's still used by Linux too to some degree.
>A big difference is that if windows starts acting funky
I never had Windows act funky. I only switched to W10 LTSC not even a year ago, before that I ran W7

ah yes, the linux user experience

Linux is dumb for gaming.

Use it for everything except that.

>Dunno, I wanted to give it a try. The other option would've been playing videogames
Oh well, you sound a cool guy, if you're willing to learn to use Linux and make something productive out it would be really cool, if you want to just play videogames you're better just using Windows.

If you still want to try make sure to enable Steam Play for easy Wine + DXVK, and/or Lutris.

>Copypaste
You might want to read the mannuals if you want to stop copy-pasting commands....

man command.

Like just use Ubuntu, Fedora/CentOS, or OpenSUSE.

>Running Linux doesn't require that much effort.
I never said it did. But if you have to ask others what you should do now that you've installed it, then it sounds like you have no actual interest in Linux and you're just one of those "I tried Linux and it sucked" guys waiting to happen.
>Yeah, who else would reply? People who don't use Linux?
Now that you mention it, yeah. This thread is already full of Windows users just coming in here to go "durr I've never used Linux but it sucks lol".

>windows 10 being given away for free
>installs linux
Get a pirated windows 7 and update it till you get asked to update to win 10. That will give you the licence to use win 10 on that particular pc forever.

>implying people use Linux just because they don't want to pay for Windows
lol no

Fix tearing and get it to not give random errors when you reboot.

>get it to not give random errors when you reboot.
works on my machine

>linux
>gaming
"i don't know much about those computors but i've heard windows is gay on /g/ and converted to gentoo"

>linux
>not gaming
"I don't know anything about Wine or Proton but I heard back in the '90s that only Windows has games so I shitposted on Yas Forums about it"

download that thing that makes all your windows wiggle like jello when you move them around

The GPU isn't used by linux at all. You have to have two GPUs to do this set up. Most CPU's have an integrated GPU, and so you likely do have two GPUs. I have to plug one monitor into my Motherboard's DP port to see linux.

I never had too many problems with windows, I seemed to have avoided all the update madness people would experience but there is always the slow and gradual bloat that windows does that takes more work than pressing a single button. With my VM, I just go back to that near virgin state windows was in after I got all the drivers set up and the games downloaded.