On Sun, 2025-01-12 at 02:48 +1030, Tim via users wrote: > On Sat, 2025-01-11 at 10:57 -0500, Jonathan Billings wrote: > > If you are asking about RHEL Workstation as a Windows Desktop > > replacement, I don’t believe that’s part of Red Hat’s strategic > > objective. Maybe for large engineering or animation workshops but not > > as a general computing devices. > > > > That isn’t to say you can’t use it that way, I’ve done it for a large > > part of my career as a desktop Linux sysadmin. But your question is > > about whether IBM or Red Hat would promote it as a Windows > > replacement. > > > > I suggest Fedora Workstation instead of Windows. > > The thing that gets brought up to me if I ever mention Linux to a > friend is gaming. He's into all that World of Warcraft immersive > fantasy and 3D shoot-em-up stuff. High-resolution graphics, high frame > rate, probably only released for Windows stuff.
Just to stick my oar in, the use of Linux for gaming has evolved enormously in the past couple of years, mainly owing to Valve's putting real money and effort into the Proton compatibility shim (built on Wine) in order to support the Steam Deck handheld, which is based on Arch Linux. I'm retired and took up gaming a few years ago. I used to jump through hoops to get Windows working in a VM with PCI passthrough so the guest could have direct access to the GPU. I haven't had to do that in at least two years. Not everything works, particularly games with anti-cheat systems implemented as kernel-level blobs, but I don;t care about those gamnes anyway so no loss. A look at https://www.protondb.com/https://www.protondb.com/ gives an idea of the current state of play (pun intended). Interestingly, the games that do work sometimes have better performance on Proton than on Windows. BTW, Steam is about to release SteamOS for competitor's handhelds, Lenovo being the first. Now back to our regularly scheduled program. poc -- _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
