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    That's why we need two ssds for dual boot (lemmy.world)
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    [–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago (6 children)

    This is why you don't duel boot. If Windows can't play nice with others it doesn't get to exist at all. Proton+Steam means there is never a reason to run windows at all. "But I need some non-game windows applications." K. Proton is able to reliably run games in a library of tens of thousands of games with all kinds of bad programming and obscure hardware use. It's a standard for being able to run windows apps in linux that is going to cover any other application you have.

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

    Even if it worked, I wouldn't want Adobe clogging up my Linux system with all their BS just to run Photoshop.

    That shit gets a dedicated system on a dedicated drive.

    [–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago

    There's definitely software that uses parts of the windows API that games don't touch. And doesn't work properly on Wine. I keep a windows install around just for using an analysis software for some lab equipment that refuses to start in wine.

    Things like CAD software are also a struggle, though the latest wine seems to have resolved a number of graphics issues with getting PTC Creo to properly use the nvapi and nvidia graphics drivers through wine.

    While wine is amazing, plenty of things don't work with it. Usually you don't need them, but if you do, you do

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    What if I want to play Destiny 2?

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

    Get one of those windows handhelds and pretend it's a desktop

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

    THEN YOU ARE WRONG! /jk

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

    I have really been struggling to get proton to work in OpenSUSE, despite ProtonDB having only positive experience with the games I've attenpted. Running Tumbleweed X11 KDE with an 30 series Nvidia GPU. And in trying to fix them I seem to have broken my display drivers altogether. Plenty of system restarts, but all this happened without going into windows for a month. And that's why I dual boot 😢

    [–] [email protected] -1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

    I haven't run tumbleweed in a while, but I did have a similar issue on arch with X11 kde.

    In the Nvidia settings, ensure that both Force Composition Pipeline and Force Full Composition Pipeline are disabled (unchecked) otherwise some games launched from steam using proton 8 or newer freezes on focus.

    Obviously you'd have to fix your display drivers first. Maybe a reinstall is the quickest solution there.

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

    Yeah, trying a Snapper restore since I'm out of things I know to look at, but that appears to be the next step. Thanks for the info on the Nvidia settings, is that in some config file?

    [–] [email protected] -1 points 7 months ago

    You could save it to a config file and then load that before starting X

    [–] [email protected] 17 points 7 months ago

    Some people are sadly addicted to games with invasive anticheats

    [–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

    If a game doesn't work on proton it's not worth playing for me.