• Psythik@lemmy.world
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    7 hours ago

    I’m trying but the girlfriend refuses. She watches YouTube on the TV and does everything else on her phone; literally only uses the laptop to play The Sims 4 (which her 1080ti can handle just fine), yet she’s convinced that she will need a brand new gaming machine with a 4090/5090 as soon as Microsoft dumps WIn10. She’s afraid that she’ll completely break the OS if she switches to Linux. (Which is plausible, though unlikely.

    I’m hoping she’ll change her mind as soon as she realizes just how much more GPUs cost these days, especially mobile ones.

    • vii@programming.dev
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      6 hours ago

      Create a live USB stick and demonstrate it to her, without deleting Windows. Bonus points if you rice the fuck out of it with some kawaii shit for your GF and make Sims 4 work with Wine.

      • beastlykings@sh.itjust.works
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        5 hours ago

        Wine need not apply. That’s old school. Sims 4 works great in proton. Basically just install steam and the rest is handled.

        Better yet, install bazzite as your distro, gaming works out of the box.

        • CatLikeLemming@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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          4 hours ago

          Proton is based on Wine, when people say Wine in a gaming context, there’s a decent chance they just mean Proton. Also there’s absolutely no need for gaming distros in this situation, gaming works out of the box on any (semi-normal) distro, the most you’ll have to do is flick a switch in Steam.

          Edit: Or in this case with the Sims install Lutris I guess, since it’s an EA game, but that also isn’t much more difficult

          • beastlykings@sh.itjust.works
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            4 hours ago

            That’s fair, I’m a bit uninformed on wine and proton’s roots. However I’d argue that for someone like OPs girlfriend, a somewhat-immutable atomic based distro like bazzite might be better. Especially if it’s only used for gaming and YouTube 🤷‍♂️

            But different strokes for different folks, so perhaps they’d be better off just installing steam on their distro of choice 👍

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              2 hours ago

              if you try giving someone used to windows an immutable distro they will think that something is wrong or things are too confusing.