Why you SHOULDN'T be dual booting.

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At this point in time, this video is invalid. With the creation of Steam Play and Proton, any game you've bought on Steam for Windows, you can now play on Linux; no need to buy Skyrim again. I have no reason to use Windows as my main OS now.

Well. I have a low-end pc. The performance on windows is better than on linux and if I use proton, the games won't be playable. And to be honest, skyrim won't be realeased for linux in the nearly future.

You support Linux which is an open platform, but you call people who support the free market nuts.

Lol, I quintuple boot, Hackintosh on one drive, windows, Ubuntu, Manjaro, and Gentoo.

Yep. Don't dual boot. Be smart and have 2 separate ssds

There are so much small casual games that arent on linux cause they’re made by a small developer team or just 1 person. And for me gaming goes much further than triple As. And and without support there wont be more game developpers in the furure

you say its stopping the company from making money for u buying the game.. but u buy it once from them either way? so it wouldn't affect the amount of money they make from u

despite the content and the thumbnail, I agree that "Why you SHOULDN'T be dual booting" is a terrible title for this video

this was deceiving I thought this would be the downsides of dual booting.

dont try me nxt time include "game" in your title
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I don't get your point. Unless they get Microsoft brand games, most of the games are from Steam... And Microsoft doesn't get a cut of that.

Err... no.
You see, the problem is that besides top-best-newest-most graphicaly advanced games there are also some very old, obscure titles that simply cannot be played neither on Linux or via WINE.
For example in my case there's Magic The Gathering game from 1997. Obviously for this kind of old game there's no Linux version and Wine simply does not work with it properly yet. Should i resign from playing this game because of your arguments that basicaly can be shortened into "uh-oh support Linux!" ?

wait so if you buy a game on steam on windows it only works on windows? you dont get the linux version too?

That’s not how this works. Bethesda has no idea what platform you buy the game on. What they do know is the number of steam users run steam on Linux. Dual booting will have no effect on that.

I admire your commitment to Linux and encouragement of others to use it for gaming (keep up the good work). I'm just confused about a possible contradiction you made when mentioning games on Steam being "multiplatform" (buy once, install on any/all supported OS) and then asking who is going to repurchase Skyrim if released/ported to Linux. Isn't that the point of Steam? Not having to repurchase games for Linux if already owned. I might be missing what exactly your point is on this matter.

no, you show that the linux is a gaming platform by offering a superior product to masses. until then, well...

dual booting on the same drive is troublesome with windows come time to re install. recommend using a separate physical drive for windows. this is what was going through my head. also depending on how you configured it dual booting on a software level is slower where physical is fully disableable and enableable very swiftly right at the motherboard. that said it may be a laptops only option if it can only house one drive so in that instance id try to clone it so that windows can be restored.

Too cute

I just do dual-booting for VEGAS PRO that I already bought and now I just use it for Monero mining

Ok im triple bootin

Years later, he uses Proton lol

"What do you think, am I being rediculous?"
Yep, sure are! <Smacks Dislike button>

I agree but for different reasons. Dualbooting makes it more difficult to transition. It's an inconvenience to have to reboot your system every time you wanna play a game so most people are just gonna stick on Windows. A better idea would be to have a gaming system set up with Windows exclusively for gaming and a separate Linux machine used for every day computing.

The only way I was able to transition was clean installing and just going for it. If you absolutely can't live without something on Windows then Linux just ain't for you.

So we shouldn’t duel boot because there is a small possibility a game will be ported and mostly likely it won’t. Also as someone who uses both unreal and unity , both Linux support built in for there tools and making a build for the game. Godot has Linux support. GameMaker has Linux support. MonoGame has Linux support. Why should I buy a game twice from big companies who have not given there programmers a raise in over 10 years while ceo has took all the money.

I kind of agree but also love Age of Empires 2.

I dual-boot and triple-boot. All Linux. No windows.

I would love to. I've been using linux for 10 years for everything (software dev etc) except music production.
Finger crossed for that audio latency patch and pipewire.
There's no good drum plugin on linux and wineasio is broken.

One thing - oculus quest, good luck using it with linux

I think it's a good point, but you made one point in just under 3 minutes. I kinda thought you were gonna have more than one reason.

It's interesting to see how much the conversation about this has changed with proton

did your guitars get stolen? have you been relegated to the basement???? :O

If you don't know how to fix boot-loaders, DON'T DUAL BOOT. Any Windows update is liable to over-ride all boot-loaders and bork any/all OS's present.

And if you do wanna dual boot, then don't just use the Linux installer to shrink the Windows partition. Didn't use to, but now Windows is designed so that shrinking its partition will quite likely corrupt some vital system file and break Windows. Instead, you should reformat your drive and reinstall Windows and all Windows software and content on a smaller partition leaving free space for you to manually partition and install Linux.

Compatibility layers like proton are fully justifiable. It is the bridge by which Linux will get a horde of new users, and devs will start taking it seriously as a platform in its own right. I personally refuse to dual boot, but I wholly support proton, wine and other such layers which are proving games can work on linux.

what about with steam deck now?

I’d love to just run Linux exclusively, but I’ve spent near $200 on a digital amp simulator about a year ago, it only has Windows/Mac support and virtual machines give my interface massive latency :(. Maybe one day I could build up a rig for audio with MacOS and everything else can be Linux

Even when this video was released five years ago at the time of my comment, Steam allows you to install Linux versions of Windows games if they have Linux support. Steam in fact shows which games are available for which platforms, so buying a game for Windows doesn't mean you won't be supporting the developer for having Linux support as you're buying a license key to all platform versions, or if/when they add Linux support down the line - and if you feel like it's your moral obligation to support a developer for porting to Linux after you already bought their game when it only supported Windows, you can always delete it from your library/purchases (this permanently removes that version of the license/key from your Steam account) and buy it again.

The only ethical issues of buying and playing games on Windows is that you first had to buy a Windows license key, which even third-party OEM keys indirectly supports Microsoft - but that's assuming you actually care about full Windows customisation (and seeing as we're all Linux users here, we don't) rather than just accepting that it will have reminders and just use it to play games. You don't even need to have a Microsoft account to install Windows due to Microsoft's poor security where you can bypass the required internet connection by opening up Command Prompt and circumventing any of Microsoft's anti-consumer requirements.

Don't delay, dual boot Windows and Linux today! No but seriously, Linux is great for productivity, but there are lots of great games that just aren't available for Linux and their multiplayer modes won't let you use hypervisors/Proton/Wine/etc without being booted by the multiplayer's anti-cheat.

What a logic

Wow, Gardiner has really changed his mind since then. He went on record recently telling Linux users on why Proton is the future and why this older position of "no tux no bux" is wrong. I'm glad to see he's grown

I agree with where you are coming from, but sometimes friends just happen to have windows exclusive games they want to play with you, and I don't want to be that guy that just can't

mainly being for fortnite and league of legends, with fortnite i could fix the problem by simply playing it on a console which I dont particularly like because of the lack of graphical/performance options. and with league, all I can really do is wait for wild rift to come out on console in 2028, either that or hope riot rolls back the vanguard change or ports the game to linux, which I highly doubt that will ever happen

Laugh in 4 drive (2 SSD and 1 splited HDD)

bro doesn't know about dualbooting

I'll do whatever I want, fatty. I'm a grown man.

I can't print, because my printer doesn't support arch

I tried dualbooting without USB and it kept rebooting to the installer no matter what you choose.

I've got a dual boot setup for many years, works great! Windows/Linux