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Here's the thing......IF it could do what it claims, it would be a game changer.
It tries to claim it's able to be a replacement for Windows, on Linux. It can run Windows native software. It does what Windows 11 does.
And that's the problem. Nobody wants Windows 11. Windows 10 installs are GROWING while Windows 11 are actually shrinking. People are uninstalling Windows 11, to install Windows 10. And you're going to mimic Winfows 11??? Ok. Bad move right out of the gate.
But lets see what it can do. Can it really run all Windows software and completely eliminate the need for microsoft?
In a word.....No. It's just Wine. Same Wine you can do on any other machine. With the same limitations. Nothing special here.
This is just a Windows 11 theme, which is hidden behind a $35 paywall. Yes the basic version is free, but if you came here, you came for the Windows. Part of the Windows apperance is hidden behind a liscense key fee.
So it's trying to be something everyone hates to begin with. Claims it can do something uniquely useful, but fails. Then has the gall to charge you money for the experience.
That's like making fake plastic dog shit, still having to use little baggies to clean it up, NOT getting to spend time with a dog afterwards, and then charging you money for the pleasure of cleaning up fake shit.
Lindows II: electric boogaloo.
This is not the first, btw.
Can you recommend a good one? I have a game that wont run on proton and my only answer is to dual boot
which game is that? have you tried proton GE? if it's anticheat stuff, your best choice is to dual boot unfortunately. if it isn't resource intensive, i guess you could try GPU passthrough in a VM and see if it works. you need two GPUs for that tho...
It's DCS and it seems to be issues with shaders specifically, I have not tried GE, I will give it a try
have a look at this, there's a fix for the shader issue. https://wiki.hoggitworld.com/view/DCS_on_linux
tried that too, I get an invalid magic number error for protontricks, tried the fixes in here github.com/Matoking/protontricks/issues/304
I tried to install d3dcompiler_47 on another game in another drive and got the same error, I can't seem to add dlls through protontricks
How up to date are your graphics drivers/backend?