Install GNU/Linux. linuxmint.com/ manjaro.org/ >b-but no games Steam's Proton feature makes all your Windows games run on GNU/Linux. >b-but drivers The two distros I linked to have all the drivers your PC needs. Unlike Devian or others, these include them even if they're propietary. Manjaro also comes with Steam by default. >b-but it's difficult to install Both of those have a GUI installer. It's even easier than Windows.
Mustard race, you have no excuses. Windows is a glorified console OS anyway, just ask any Xbro.
I'm thinking about it, but i like to pirate some video games, what do i do then?
Joshua Robinson
Not OP, but pirated Windows games usually work fine with WINE. I mostly play older shit tho.
Daniel Hughes
I use Linux and have been playing Sekiro. It's really great that a big AAA Windows game is running perfectly on Linux day one.
Jaxson Campbell
well, it's worth trying then I guess, how easy is it to learn linux and how to use it? is there a way i can install it without messing up my windows install? I'm on win7 and she's never failed me.
Jeremiah Peterson
I can't believe brainlets actually think Linux has driver problems.
Until Windows 10, Windows always had hell with drivers.
>Linux You plug it in, and it either works or doesn't. If you buy supported hardware, no issues >Windows 7 You have to install a driver so your PC can fully use your processor and use USB 3.
Gavin Edwards
You can have both Windows and Linux installed at the same time, and just choose which one to boot when you start up your PC. Learning linux is relatively easy imo, but It will take a few days to get really comfortable with it. Once I got comfortable with things like package management, I couldn't go back to installing and updating things the Windows way again.
Wyatt Perry
Ubuntu and Linux Mint are the easiest to install and use distros out there. The installer even detects your current SO and offers you to install Linux alongside of it and to install media codecs and drivers. If you're still unsure you can try it on a virtual machine.
Michael Ross
Pirate groups have started bundling games with known working Wine profiles + DXVK in appImages, which means that they should just work.
Nicholas Harris
>security updates I barely have any updates for W7 as it is.
Hey lets wait for the masterchief collection I will like play on linux oh wait.. you can't.
Charles Stewart
>is there a way i can install it without messing up my windows install? Yes, that's called "dualbooting" and it's quite easy to do. The GNU/Linux installer will ask you whether you want to replace Windows or install GNU/Linux alongside it. >how easy is it to learn linux and how to use it? A lot. The distributions (if you don't know what that means, check here howtogeek.com/132624/) I linked to are very user friendly, and similar to Windows. Enjoy your malware. Microsoft won't be there to protect you once the next exploit comes out.
Joseph Adams
>run most vulnerable OS on the planet >don't install security updates
Jason Turner
it's still going for a year, after that I'm getting off the net with my degenerate machine. It's silly to think I would want to fiddle with wine every time I want to try a different Japanese porn game.
Benjamin Wright
2 Years of using linux on home desktop Only miss out on a few games that look ok, but had no real hype for. Proton released and makes 80-90% of games on steam work on linux and all you have to do is install them on steam The only reason i can see for not using Linux is if you have some really specific software for a hobby. Like i don't think there are any great video editors on Linux. Still if all you do is game, watch movies and surf the web there is no reason to install linux anymore. Personally I prefer kubuntu over manjaro. Never been a big mint fan for no real reason
Michael Bailey
Depending on the anti-cheat solution it should just work with Proton.
Kind of a bittersweet moment for Linux gaming really, Bungie used to be one of the big names in UNIX gaming before Microsoft bought them up as part of their anti-competitive play to lock down PC gaming and enslave it to the console cycle.
Most kids don't know this, but Halo was once meant to be the showcase for gaming on modern user friendly UNIX OSes. It was even originally shown on stage by Steve Jobs as as demo of what could be done with MacOS X and OpenGL before Microsoft bought them and forced downgrades to work on their console.
I played the shit out of Myth 2 back in the day.
William Reyes
>Still if all you do is game, watch movies and surf the web there is no reason to install linux anymore. to not install*
>Like i don't think there are any great video editors on Linux. There's a few like BlackMagic's DaVinci Resolve, and of course the Blender suite. Adobe just won't offer official support for some reason even though a fair number of film production companies like Pixar are all-Linux and use a commercially supported version of Wine for employees who need it.
Connor Lee
>you have no excuses yeah because microcucks stopped updating that must mean i NEED to switch because if i don't, then i will get hacked XDD
its pretty much impossible to get hacked unless you're a fucking absolute retard. this shit only matters for companies whose computers still use outdated software. you know nothing.
Jeremiah Wood
Been using W7 for five years like that with no major issues or bugs to speak of. If CommonSense and a backup AV or two aren't enough, then you only have your own carelessness to blame imo
Besides I thought XP was still the most vulnerable.
how do you think you can get virus? by just opening google?
Justin Hill
Bump for Mint. There is significantly lower input lag when playing games with Mint XFCE and compositing turned ***off***. Compositing intrinsically adds 1 frame of lag and you can't turn it off with Windows or OS X but you can do it easily with Mint 19.1 XFCE.
This is Cinnamon cause I'm on my laptop, but my main beast uses XFCE because I want as low overhead as possible.
>proton >everything works Dont lie it doesnt work always and some games dont even work with edgy experimental parameters and hour of tweaking. Maybe in 5-10 years it will just work(tm)
Isaac Rodriguez
Windows 10 is by brainlets, for brainlets.
Levi Long
this it still needs to be worked on but its getting Close™
David Scott
Google is a virus.
Owen Reyes
Nice shill, you are overselling proton. While it works out in some games, all games lots of games with drm don't work or run badly. Way better than before but still needs time
William Morales
you're a virus
Caleb Rivera
Remember WannaCrypt? That's an exploit that remotely executes code in your PC. Due to MS' spaghetti code, more and more of those bugs will be found. And no common sense or AV will save you from that. You can't fix errors in the OS just by not running fishy .exe files. >games with drm Just pirate them dude.
Justin Harris
What OS do you guys use for games? I've been using Bunsenlabs which is based on Debian, but I might jump to something else that's more out-of-the-box for games.
Julian Clark
XP was the most vulnerable, but as time goes on and more programs don't support it, viruses and whatnot have an increasingly hard time working on it. Some anons on /g/ already use Windows 2000 without worrying about security as their main OS because no modern viruses work with it anymore.
Aiden Perry
If someone with a device compromised by certain worms accesses your network your systems will be compromised just like that. Beyond that if you were to open up a link to a compromised page (especially if the system once again defaulted back to a Trident based browser for the millionth time) yeah, you'd be infected.
Most of the people claiming in one breath that they 'use common sense and never have problems" and then in the next say "of course I pirate all my games" have systems that are compromised, sending their data out to the FSB and are none the wiser. Its only if they think you're worthwhile that they turn on the bitlocker portion of the malware or other features that notify you of your system being compromised.
Jack Thomas
Sorry I have money and couldn't give less of a shit some Russian has a harder time getting to play it for free
David Bailey
Linux Mint 19.1 XFCE. The only thing that it's missing 'out of the box' is the latest Nvidia drivers, which no distribution has to the best of my knowledge. You can download them pretty easily, but I have to stress that it's not *as* straightforward as it could be. You need to download a PPA which I don't even like to explain what that is, but if you see any tutorials explaining how to install Nvidia's drivers and they bring up a PPA, you're probably in the right place.
Thomas Sanders
>Like i don't think there are any great video editors on Linux.
Try OpenShot. They fixed the performance issues in the latest version and it's actually usable now.
Luke Flores
End of support does not mean that it will suddenly stop working, faggot. Go be an alarmist twat somewhere else.
John Jones
Also forget those piece of shit reserve engineered non-properity drivers its like asking for a crash marathon and dogshit performance when one obscure api call is made by directx and japanese devs love obscure api calls. Propertiry drivers will not crash at least but enjoy the terminal to install those.and the perfornance? At least -10-20% drop what you would get in windows
Its a little better with amd gpus at least
Jordan Hill
Ubuntu is what Valve tells devs to offer official support for, and its generally a good distro for novice users. The only real downside is how their stable packages policies impact graphics drivers. There are well known workarounds for that, but it could be simpler and more official.
Nine times out of 10 people who report a problem with a game on Ubuntu have an old version of their drivers.
Jace Edwards
I installed Manjaro the night Proton launched, and I'm surprised by how much it "just works". I may switch to Arch whenever I build my new PC. The AUR has spoiled me so that I could never use a non Arch-based distro.
Camden Ramirez
Ubuntu or manjaro, anything else is bad taste
Grayson Butler
There's already an exploit that affects every single Intel CPU made in the past 10 years that can directly access microcode within the CPU itself, so I don't give a fuck. You people are fucking retarded, EVERYTHING is vulnerable because that's just the nature of software development, no one gives a fuck.
