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I went Windows 10 > Linux Mint
I have nothing to complain about. Lateral move in terms of functionality. In terms of general freedom and feeling like I actually own the PC I purchased,... 100% improvement.
If video games weren't my primary hobby, I'd have switched already. But the gaming experience on Linux is still wanting.
I mean, if you're still wanting, it's wanting.
Personally I don't really touch EA or Ubisoft so, I don't miss anything, and even if I was into them, from the looks of things, I wouldn't be missing much.
You'd miss exactly nothing.
I have tried several times over the years to pick up a game of theirs that looks interesting due to the story, setting, or due to the fact that it's a sport game my friends are playing.
Every single time, for well over a decade now, it's taken me about 20 minutes to realize they haven't changed one thing about their formula in any genre.
All of their games feel kind of cheap, floaty, and/or just "off" somehow in terms of physics and gameplay. They have nonstop in-game purchases, and they fill their game with hundreds of thousands of copy and paste quests. Like, the most tedious thing in the recent Zelda games is getting the Koroks seeds, and even that is more varied and interesting than the vast majority of Ubisoft quests.
If Ubi made smaller games less frequently, they'd be an amazing studio I'd bet.
The sports games from EA are also the same exact thing every single year. Similarly, if EA released fewer sports games, instead just updating rosters and stats through free downloads, they could probably make some pretty incredible games.
One thing I'd like to see EA do is add more fun and experimental features. First person mode in Madden where you play with a full team of guys, creative rule sets, totally off the wall fantasy settings and rule sets, career modes where you start as a high school player and get noticed, marathon games where you don't get to call plays and instead it's a constant stream of making it to the end zone and having to immediately punt the ball to the other team so they can start running and passing freely instantly, etc.
They could do so much to make sports interesting to non-spors guys. And someone who likes sports more could probably tell me some of the more realistic/simulation style upgrades they'd like to see from these games. Things that have been missing way too long.
Worth checking into Steam and Nobara if you haven't.
I can only speak for myself, but as a gamer I don't have a lot of complaints with gaming on linux. If most of your games are on steam they should work fine on linux thanks to proton (and steamdeck too). Sure, if you play a lot of multiplayer games where the anti-cheat doesn't tolerate linux, then staying on windows is understandable. Outside of steam, there are other launchers, lutris and heroic, for example.
I'm personally still dual booting, because one game that I played still doesn't work on linux, but as I don't play that game anymore nor have I booted to windows in like 6 months, I might as well get rid of windows once and for all.
That's a big issue for lots of people.
I will say though that Steam's Proton is amazing. I play Guild Wars 2 and all previous emulations were awful and buggy. With Proton it's no different to running in Windows.
Definitely worth a try.
Guild Wars 2 has been fully playable with regular WINE since launch. I've always played it (and GW1) on Linux, never on Windows.
Not to take from Proton's benefits but this is probably not the best game to give as an example. 🙂
Maybe my Linux skills (which doesn't surprise me) were lacking. I tired in the past and gave up as it was buggy for me. That said I ran the game on a potato for the longest time so adding in emulation probably didn't help.
I believe only one of the like 200 games I tested didn't work on linux. Everything else works except for some anticheat titles. But I'm playing titanfall 2, aoe2 and drg without any major issues. Everything else just works.
Mint ftw!
I've loved mint ever since I first tried it. An OS that actually does what I want it to do. My only complaint with mint is that it works so well that I keep forgetting the console commands and have to look them up when I do need them. Thinking about installing suicide linux on an old laptop and learning the hard way lol.
I used Arch for about a decade but I got really tired of babysitting.
That can be a day,... a week, a month, maybe longer.
Mint is new enough without being too new and it's polished enough without seeming like too much, like Garuda or most flavors of Ubuntu.
I had to do the reverse switch and it sucks :(