Elite Dangerous and Linux: Get the Penguin Spacebound?

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Kaltern

Kaltern
Never understood this fascination with getting games to run under Linux.

Linux is a crap OS, only really useful for specific activities. It's far too difficult for the average Windows user to even grasp, and will remain a pointless desktop OS until it has native DirectX libraries, a better shell that doesn't rely on terminal use for half the things you need, and a filesystem that isn't in the stoneage.

I am being fairly harsh, but game developers don't have the time and resources to cater for 2% of the population who refuse to use Windows on principle. Would I like to see an OS that isn't Windows? Of course, - but it has to be at least as user friendly, and easy to develop for, rather than the mess that Linux is, with more versions than I care to count. It's the same for MacOs, I really wish Frontier hadn't released on that platform - it's basically a pretty Linux, with all the problems you get with that OS, and is still only a fraction of the installed OS's on desktop PC's for a reason.

Windows is terrible, but it also works for gaming, and is easy to develop for. We need another OS that is like this, only without the added Microsoft telemetry.
 

CMDR Ellegon

CMDR Ellegon
Kaltern said:
Never understood this fascination with getting games to run under Linux.

Linux is a crap OS, only really useful for specific activities. It's far too difficult for the average Windows user to even grasp, and will remain a pointless desktop OS until it has native DirectX libraries, a better shell that doesn't rely on terminal use for half the things you need, and a filesystem that isn't in the stoneage.
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You are not harsh, you are simply completely clueless regarding operating systems. At least don't post about things that are beyond your grasp. You are way off topic here and your post is offensive.
 

GammaZ

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CMDR Ellegon,

Indeed, it is my opininon based on my expirience and personal preference. If it works for you - great, but for me it does not.
I played around with virtualization quite a bit, and since i have SLI (which i never bothered to get working under linux) anyway it was fairly simple to try this with second gpu. It did not work for me. Too cumbersome and sadly has nothing to do with running games on linux, since you still have to use windows. Also yes, nothing stops you from running multiple VM-s at the same time, and with multiple GPU-s it even allows running multiple games at the same time, but with the same drawbacks that another licence is needed etc...

Also, if you run win10, nothing will help you to avoid privacy issues with it. No difference between running it on different "gaming pc", from different partition/drive (multiboot) or in VM. With all the issues win10 has i am not using, and not going to use it, and this is why i started looking into alternative desktop OS options in the first place. Before win10 windows seemed completely fine for home/entertainment pc...

As for vm-specific "perks" you mentined yes, snapshots, easy cloning, backups etc are very convinient/usefull, still in this system there is unavoidably host OS, which does not have them. If you have to reboot linux and then vm it will be even slower than simply rebooting windows. And linux is far from being as stable as it is often depicted, i've got couple of oopse's only just playing around with KVM/passthrough, and then some more when trying to use dmcrypt...
Also, there are ways to get snapshots on bare-metal windows too - you just have to run it from storage that suppurts them. I used ISCSI with lvm volume as backing store to do this, when i did some funny experiments with windows at work...
 
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M_Biscotti

M_Biscotti
Elite Dangerous is DirectX 11+. There is no DirectX 11 under Linux at now.
So it's as easy as "dual boot" (like I do) or "get a console" and ED for console (like I don't :) )
 
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