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Discussion on: How and Why I switch the Windows 10 to Linux (Ubuntu 18.0 LTS)

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abhijiths0098

My only problem is that it can't play game , otherwise I quite enjoyed using linux , I used arch Linux , ubuntu and arch based os manjaro.

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Clash000

You cannot play games but you can make games on Linux more faster than windows since Unity hair engine runs crappy on my windows and on Linux it runs much smoothly .

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Me

Lots of linux friendly games in steam. I run nier automata in ubuntu

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Mostafa Aqil

Yep but you can also play linux non friendly game using Proton something that steam uses to run Windows games on linux

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Prakhar Jaiswal

You can definitely play games on steam otherwise try wine to install windows application.

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Pedro Miranda

Civilization V for example had worse performance in Linux in a dual boot machine between Windows and Linux I previously owned

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aliasbilly

Sure you can, they are called Virtual Machines.

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gronkdaslayer

You ain't gonna get 60fps in a game that's running in a VM. Best is running something like Steam.

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