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Breaking Windows - Where is the future of gaming on windows - linux maybe?

Deon Beauchamp shared this feedback 4 months ago
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I have just moved another two PCs over to linux.

I have a gaming PC on windows10.

When I upgrade this hardware, I intend to move my gaming over to a linux machine.

In my opinion I see no gaming future on windows that will run in an acceptable environment.

The GPU people appear to think that linux is a goto.


Running SE under wine does not seem to be a perfect solution.

If SE2 is ever a thing could it run native on a linux platform please.

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To add : I just heard that a gameplay benchmark found that gaming on linux was up to 10% 'faster' than windows11.

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To be more specific: A native Linux version would be nice for any future Keen games. But at a minimum those should run well under Linux/Proton (Proton is Valve's version of the WINE compatibility layer.)

Maybe the latter is even possible to achieve under SE today: Locally, SE runs reasonably well for me under Proton 9.02, only online play is still pretty crash prone. Pretty please, could you try and find the remaining obstacles and fix them?

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Isn't SE written in C# for .NET? Please correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought it was. If so, Linux has it's own .NET framework written in native code, so SE should run quite well in Linux*. I've not tried it myself, but like the OP, I'll be switching back to Linux as soon as SE stops working in Windows 10.

* You probably still need to run Wine, but I think most of the game code will use Linux's native .NET code. Again, correct me if I'm wrong, please.

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