Windows vs. Linux

[Allanon]

This sort of indirectly applies here.

I have a 2012 ASUS laptop. *GB RAM, 2.4 GHz Dual-Processors, 1366(h) x 768(v) 32-Bit resolution and color, Intel Integrated chip.

It originally had Windows 8, but apparently its hard drive is shot. It was a multi-boot system using LICK so it also had Puppy Linux 6.0.5 Tahrpup.

I plan on replacing the hard drive with a solid-state one, but no Windows- sorry, Microsoft- likely using a more recent 64-Bit Ubuntu.

Now, currently I'm using a USB-In-The-RAM 32-Bit Puppy Linux 6.3.0 Slacko for the laptop. Of course it cannot play any 64-Bit games but overall its quite remarkable, considering I'm using WINE 1.7.4 to get Windows software running. Most games do play.

Does anyone else here have an Ubuntu system? How well does WINE work on that one? DOSBox? And how nicely or poorly does Steam play with Ubuntu?

Thanks.

 

[Poe]

Steam works fine on most games if you have the latest GPU drivers. They have their own compatibility layer built on wine, proton. Some games, especially newer ones, may take some tweaking (or just crash often) until they're able to patch their but this usually doesn't take long. For instance I was able to play cyberpunk just a few days after it came out with little issue. There is going to be the occasional game that just has issues (e.g. I had issues with the outer worlds) but on average it works seamlessly.