Even the basic version of Steam runs most Steam and non-steam games reasonably well. Wine/proton has advanced quite a bit over the years … Rouben On Tue, Sep 9, 2025 at 17:38 Sam K via Talk <talk@lists.gtalug.org> wrote:
Michael There may be a 6th option: you could check out Steam OS or Bazzite and see if all your games run in them. I'm not a gamer but I've been following those who are that have jumped from Win to Linux and have been surprised at how well games run on either of these. best Sam
My wife has the only Windows 10 box in the house. Its processor fails the Microsoft requirements and also can't be upgraded. ALL her apps (Thunderbird, Chromium, LibreOffice, Gimp) are available in Linux, so no problem there.
The problem is games, of which we have copious quantities, most of which have problems running on Wine.
My possible solutions to the problem include: 1) Most obvious, buy a new PC and upgrade to Win 12! 2) Follow lots of web advice for tricking Windows into installing Win 12 anyway, but I would have to image the disk and practice on the image. 3) Make the PC dual boot Windows and Linux, disable Win updates and remove all web facing applications from it. Boot into Win 10 only for games. 4) Convert the Win 10 into an image, install Linux and run Win 10 in a VM. 5) As stupid as it sounds, keep the Win 10 box isolated and boot it only when we want to play games, which is a migration step to 4) at a later date.
I will consider any alternative that costs money, but no alternative that involves paying Microsoft, such as the extended Security Update program.
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