Fully made the jump to Linux gaming about 1.5 years ago, and haven’t looked back. Thanks to the awesome progress on Proton, I can play just about everything I care about. The primary problems come from games with specific anti-cheat engines, but I find those are the kinds of games I don’t really play.
Also finally switched from X11 to Wayland/Niri, and Wayland is finally stable enough. Better gaming performance than X11 as well.
With all the weird stuff around Windows 11 I'm thinking I may just switch to Linux for gaming too. I've had good experiences with Wine in the past. And I've heard the Steam Deck has "encouraged" game devs to have better Linux support.
Windows XP was by far the best Windows version. In 2025 I would gladly pay money for Windows XP with modern 3D graphics support and up-to-date security patches.
Given Valve’s failures with AAA multiplayer games rejecting Linux due to the ease of undetectable cheating that unsecured Linux presents, once Steam Linux gains enough market foothold they’ll be able to ship attested secure boot for Linux; at which point games will start opting in to require you to be booting Valve’s anti-cheat Linux that requires TPM 2.0 to deny you kernel modding, debugging other processes, and so on. This is why Windows 11, specific enterprise versions of Windows 10, and any Apple operating system released since the T2 chip all require a TPM: preventing users with admin rights from patching kernel space stops cheating and malware, and is a ten-year lead held by Apple and Xbox over PCs and Steam Deck.
It would be deeply ironic if they licensed Microsoft’s Xbox Proton TPM, which AMD ships Windows 11 drivers for, to a new Steam Deck that support dual secure-booting attested Windows 11 and attested Linux :)
And I think it's a cat-and-mouse battle the anti-cheat folks are doomed to lose. If you have good reverse engineering chops, it seems like it would be fairly trivial to patch the "Am I running on a TPM?" check out of a game binary.
It is nothing more than planned obsoletence, throwing away perfectly working computers for Microsoft's profit.
More recently they just decided you need a new machine entirely (to drive revenue to their oem hardware partners).
One handy thing is - just turn off TPM 2.0 on your modern machines bios and you can keep running windows 10.
fithisux•9mo ago
The more I read the article the more I feel they try to persuade me to wear cufflinks like
John Wayne Gacy