Microsoft makes Windows setups more restrictive.
    • missphant ( missphant@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) English
      14·
      2 years ago

      VR is possible but not ideal right now, largely depends on your headset and the games. SteamVR is lacking proper asynchronous reprojection so you can’t dip below your headset’s framerate without stutter and alternatives like Monado aren’t as plug-and-play. Hopefully when Valve releases their (presumably) standalone Linux VR headset deckard there will be another boost to improving VR on Linux for everyone.

    • plumbercraic ( plumbercraic@lemmy.sdf.org ) English
      10·
      2 years ago

      Dualboot might be good since then you can tune windows to be a dedicated gaming OS which auto launches the needed things. I went from win10 to mint and haven’t booted back into windows for months.

      Cant speak to VR cos I switched to a Quest when I realised all I did was play BeatSaber, and the room with my computer is not very big.

      • Emi ( Emi@ani.social ) English
        2·
        2 years ago

        Don’t think I ever tried dual booting, only had each os on separate disk. How does it work launching specific things and booting into windows? I was thinking about using virtual Machine but heard that can be bad on performance.

        • kif ( kif@lemmy.nz ) English
          2·
          2 years ago

          If you’ve got multiple operating systems on one system, that’s dual booting! You can also partition a drive to have multiple os’s, but that can have slightly more difficulties.

          From last time I tried virtualisation, I needed to assign my graphics card to either the host or the virtual machine, and switching was a hassle. Unless things have changed, I decided booting into windows when absolutely required (anticheat) was the best option - avoiding some of the hassle that comes with virtualisation. If you’ve got multiple GPUs, that might be an option.

          I think OP is talking about having an application e.g. steam launch on startup, which can be set in Task Manager.

          Performance for virtual machines is honestly not as bad as you’d expect, provided it has reasonable resources allocated and the host isn’t being overworked. A GPU passed through will be much more enjoyable than a software/virtual GPU. You can expect 90%+ (perhaps up to 98% or so) of the performance of bare metal.

    • PostingPenguin ( PostingPenguin@feddit.org ) English
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      2 years ago

      As a quest 2 owner using Manjaro I can tell you the following: It works great. But sometimes things can ba a bit finicky.

      Some games don’t offer VR on their linux version (e.g. Warthunder) and are a pain to get working with their windows version on proton (allthough i havent tried this in a year).

      But other than the odd exception everything is great!

      And I think it’ll only improve as Valve continues developing the steam deck and therefore improving proton.

  • Aux ( Aux@feddit.uk ) English
    6·
    2 years ago

    I could never understand why people are so against MS account. There’s a similar requirement to use products from Apple and Google and everyone is ok with that.

    • Feyd ( Feyd@programming.dev ) English
      22·
      2 years ago

      I could never understand why microsoft is so against local user account. There’s a similar freedom from corporate fuckery when using Linux and everyone is ok with that.

        • Jakob Fel ( JakobFel@retrolemmy.com ) English
          12·
          2 years ago

          You realize that PC stands for “Personal Computer”, right? As in MY computer. My property. I should be free to use a local account without issue. I should be free to value my privacy.

          This is why Linux is growing faster than ever. It actually understands what personal computing is.

        • FourGreenFields ( FourGreenFields@feddit.org ) BannedEnglish
          10·
          2 years ago

          … why would I want an online account? OneDrive is (or should be) optional, and can be replaced with any other cloud storage solution (and quite frankly ought to work on normal accounts too, even if requiring an online account specifically for OD). Updating the OS evidently works without an online account. Can’t currently think of another reason for it.

          So I’d get one optional feature, and in return less privacy.

    • f4f4f4f4f4f4f4f4 ( f4f4f4f4f4f4f4f4@sopuli.xyz ) English
      5·
      2 years ago

      I have several Android devices that work without signing into any account. I get my apps from F-Droid and some apks extracted from my phone that does have a Google account.

      Samsungs are annoying, with their regular nagging, begging you to also make a Samsung account. I would never buy one but I’m on-call with a work-owned Samsung and there’s one notification that can’t be disabled. It goes off every once in a while and makes me think I have a service call.

      Windows, eh, I switched to Linux long ago, but there’s always alphabet soup edition (IoT LTSC) that is far less bloated.

    • CanadaGeese ( CanadaGeese@lemmy.zip ) English
      4·
      2 years ago

      On iOS, apple barely shoves their bloatware down your throat. Their methodology is the opposite actually. Simplistic and debloated, for the most part. Google doesnt force you into anything either. There are alternative software that you can use.

      With windows the only alternative is Linux, but a small fraction of people know about let alone use Linux so thats not really in the conversation.

      Windows wants to force you to make an account/log in with one which cant be done offline unless you do some commandline workarounds in win11. The issue is, this is a PC. Not an iPhone. Not a Samsung. It is your own dedicated hardware that you should be able to use as you please without being forced into an online-only system that forces copilot down your throat.

      Your pc isnt “a Microsoft computer”, its a computer that happens to run an operating system made by Microsoft.