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    [–] [email protected] 14 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (2 children)

    There's still the odd game that's somehow broken in WINE that isn't broken by anticheat or DRM, but by just being crusty code, but those edge cases will do fine in a Windows VM /w a spare GPU being passed through to it.

    Anything that uses kernel anticheat, so basically any modern multiplayer title, is platform-locked into a baremetal Windows install, but since I have no interest whatsoever in modern multiplayer titles and thus no interest in anything with a kernel anticheat, I can do just fine virtualizing Windows in that scenario while using a Linux host for everything else.

    (which, Soulbringer, one of my previous edge-case titles, works great in Proton /w dxwrapper+DXVK, but Civ3's audio is still broken in Proton even if C3X fixes the graphics, so that's still being ran in a Windows VM, which I currently have Win11 LTSC running in a VM /w my Vega 56 being passed through to it for just that very purpose, while I'm using an RX 6600 for my host card)

    As for apps like Maya, Blender is actually competitive with it nowadays.

    As an addendum relating to modern multiplayer titles, those are the few titles where it would make more sense to play them on console instead of PC anyways since the way in which they're locked down goes against PC's main selling point: the fact that you actually own your system to a degree where the consoles are effectively locked into the PS, Xbox, or Nintendo walled garden.

    [–] [email protected] 4 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

    I've read that modding many games is a total bitch-and-a-half on Linux, too. No idea if that's true or not, but still. I'm a sicker for fuckin' with games and if stuff breaks on Linux that works fine on windows, that's a problem.

    [–] [email protected] 3 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

    That depends, the Fallout and Elder Scrolls games are easily modded regardless of OS, and I've had good luck with HedgeModManager too for Sonic Generations, and even for Civ3, C3X fixes the black map bug however I haven't found a good fix for the crackling and popping audio.