![]() In fact, this dilemma is exactly why I ended up purchasing a MacBook Pro after using a Huawei laptop that I used Ubuntu on throughout my university years. These are the games I play the most, and I'd rather use Windows on a daily basis (an operating system that I grew up with) than have to constantly reboot to another OS just to play a game. Games such as VALORANT, Counter-Strike (on competitive third-party services like FACEIT), and Escape from Tarkov make use of anti-cheats that cannot run in an environment like Proton. Having said that, though, for me, there are some games that I simply cannot play on a Linux-based machine, and because those games are the ones that consume the most of my time, it's impossible for me to use Linux on my primary desktop. In fact, thanks to the reduced overhead of Linux and the incredible proficiency of Proton, some games actually run better on the Steam Deck through Proton than on Windows when it's installed on one. Obviously, the Steam Deck uses Linux, and that's something that works really, really well. I bought one a few months ago with 512GB of storage, and I play it a lot. This section was written by XDA's Lead Technical Editor Adam Conway, who was not a contributor to the previous version of this articleĪs a gamer, I love my Steam Deck. In the case of the Deck, it uses Proton to translate games made for Windows into a form that can run on Linux. At least for games, that can be a pretty big deal, because not everything runs well on the Deck. That's been a big selling point touted by Asus of the Steam Deck's chief rival, the ROG Ally: it uses Windows and can harness the power of the Windows software library. I've always been able to launch games, download and run apps that I need, and not have to worry about whether I won't be able to find or won't be able to use specific pieces of software. The biggest reason why I haven't ditched Windows is that it mostly just works (emphasis on mostly). While I think Linux could do 90% of what Windows does for me, that 10% is pretty important. I've only used those OSes for gaming and benchmarking, and not my entire desktop experience which includes writing articles, writing things down in Microsoft Office, browsing the internet either for fun or for my job, and some other random stuff. My experience with Linux has been pretty limited, having only used Steam Deck OS and HoloISO, a clone of Steam Deck OS made for PCs in general, and both of these OSes are based on Arch Linux.
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