I’ve been wanting to daily drive linux for years, but gaming has always held me back. I haven’t been watching this space for years really, but have been blown away recently by steam deck performance and the general rise in availability for linux gaming.
I’m debating trying to daily drive linux and wanted to ask a couple of (probably overdone) questions. I know the way that makes most sense is to dual boot, use linux for what I can and windows as fallback while I set everything up/fix anything that might not work. My dream scenario however is to not have a windows install at all, and to use a VM for what I can’t get to work on Linux. I’ve dual booted before and it just didn’t work for me, i mainly just don’t like the idea of needing to reboot and be on a different OS for xyz purposes only.
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Do games that rely on Denuvo (ick) or Easy anticheat work on linux? (Games I’m mainly concerned for in this regard are Rust, Tarkov, BattleBit and maybe battle.net games if I ever want to hate myself again)
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Is gaming on a Windows VM suitable for online games (ie is latency an issue) or resource intensive games? I don’t necessarily care if my main OS is slow while I’m playing on the VM apart from discord or a YouTube/twitch tab.
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Does discord screen sharing work well? I remember that being a huge pain for me to get working (never did) a few years back
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Is it possible to get Xbox GamePass working on linux (without vm)? What about other UWP apps https://vshare.onl/?
Thanks!
