Today, I switched the last of my Windows machines to Linux: my gaming PC. I’ve been using Linux on servers for many years but was a bit apprehensive for gaming.

Turns out it just… works. Just installed steam and turned proton on, have zero performance or other issues. I’m using Ubuntu 25.04 for the 6.14 kernels NT emulation performance tweaks. Aside from there not being a catalyst driver for it and so I can’t undervolt my card everything is great.

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    22 hours ago

    Installing windows step 4 if you’re playing games not off the main stores, install:

    • DirectX 9 Jun 2010
    • Visual C++ Redistributables (2008 - whatever the latest is)
    • .NET Framework 3.5 (if you wanna play older games. You have to do this from from programs and features)