discussion WHICH OPERATING SYSTEM DOES IT PLAY BEST ON, LINUX, MAC, WINDOWS, ANDROID, ETC?

[Sunsett]

Super light system depending on distribution: Linux

System with the most applications and most used in the world I believe: Windows

I don't even comment: Mac

System also widely used and with more applications: Android

If you want to download an app and enjoy its functions more fully and literally have to pay for every click: IOS

 

[joyblack]

Windows

 

[Deleted member 28264]

Windows. easiest to backup game saves.

Linux offers something you simply can't achieve on Windows because Microsoft won't let you - make the saves folder to be in the game main directory. Thus, when I backup the current version of ANY game, it's all there in the archive - both the game AND the saves.
And that applies not only for AVN games but for any other game as well. Like with NFS Most Wanted, for instance. By default the saves go to "Documents" on the system drive. I forced it to be in the main directory of the game - the same place where the game exe is located. Or "Euro Truck Simulator 2" - guess where the profile goes by default. I moved the entire mod and profile directory to a completely different storage. That way when I backup my system, the backup image is 12 GB smaller (because all the mods are 12 GB and when they're not on the system partition, the backup is a lot smaller) and in the rare cases I have to reinstall or bring back a working system from the backup image, I don't lose my progress in the game.

 

[binstinct]

Linux offers something you simply can't achieve on Windows because Microsoft won't let you - make the saves folder to be in the game main directory. Thus, when I backup the current version of ANY game, it's all there in the archive - both the game AND the saves.
And that applies not only for AVN games but for any other game as well. Like with NFS Most Wanted, for instance. By default the saves go to "Documents" on the system drive. I forced it to be in the main directory of the game - the same place where the game exe is located. Or "Euro Truck Simulator 2" - guess where the profile goes by default. I moved the entire mod and profile directory to a completely different storage. That way when I backup my system, the backup image is 12 GB smaller (because all the mods are 12 GB and when they're not on the system partition, the backup is a lot smaller) and in the rare cases I have to reinstall or bring back a working system from the backup image, I don't lose my progress in the game.

actually you can do the same in windows. I have moved the itunes backup folder to D: drive.

Type the following command and hit Enter: "mklink /J "%APPDATA%\Apple Computer\MobileSync\Backup" "c:\itunesbackup". Make sure to replace "c:\itunesbackup" with the actual path of your new folder. That's it! You can now choose any folder you want for your iTunes backups, such as "c:\itunesbackup"

 

[48e1-920b-9a4ff0ce20]

actually you can do the same in windows

ah, but is it also trivial to run everything in locked down private namespaces so that they cannot see other processes, the entire filesystem except their directory is read only, and networking is restricted to a private local interface? thing can't even see other software on the box it's running on. just map in some sound daemon and X windows unix sockets so it can show up on the desktop and you're gold.

edit: for stuff that shits the bed if the home directory isn't read/write, you can map a directory over the home directory in its private view of the filesystem, making it think it's empty while you redirect all of the file accesses into a folder sitting alongside the game

 

[gbfacc999]

gotta thank valve for pushing proton, lots of games work on proton now so in the future, gamers might move to proton or at least it will be an option. windows is becoming unbearable every update.

 

[binstinct]

gotta thank valve for pushing proton, lots of games work on proton now so in the future, gamers might move to proton or at least it will be an option. windows is becoming unbearable every update.

what is proton?

 

[fyl3toys]

I play a lot of VNs on my macbook air. I use a windows pc for playing all other games.

 

[Itsme]

Windows at home (for gaming mostly), Linux at work

 

[User_80256]

I've aways used Windows. Now - Win10 x64 LTSC.

 

[48e1-920b-9a4ff0ce20]

what is proton?

proton is valve's packaging of wine.

wine is a PE/COFF executable loader and linker, replacements for windows libraries, and replacements for windows services, all of which run on linux.

it loads a windows executable, links it to libraries that have linux versions of the functions in those libraries, and then the windows services keep state that the OS would normally hold on windows, like the registry.

gods, the registry in wine is just a set of text files. it's so much nicer than the actual windows registry.

you can use an environment variable to tell wine where to keep its files, and programs can either share an instance of wine, or every program can have its own version of windows

you can set wine to pretend it's any version of windows from 3.11 through windows 11.

in proton, valve hides all of the wine configuration stuff from the user so they don't have to deal with it. they just hit "play" like any other game.

tl;dr: you can play any windows game that doesn't root kit you for cheat detection on a linux steam deck no problem ( or any linux system you install steam on ). valve has worked with root kitters to get their shit working on steam as well. it's a solid effort.

 

[SegmentCoalescing]

Windows is good for general purpose/gaming.
Linux can run most games now, at least single player ones.
Ren'py games seem to have native support for Linux if it's that kind of games that you're thinking about.

 

[capt21]

I only use Win, but i have heard Linux isn't bad.

I have heard that too ......maybe one day, i will buy one

 

[binstinct]

I have heard that too ......maybe one day, i will buy one

You don’t need buy. Try zorin os.
Can dual boot when windows.

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[falseside]

Most non ren'py games don't even have any other version than windows.

 

[goblinek20]

Sorry, Windows won the monopoly war. Linux is too complicated and mostly not supported, mobile is too small to play correctly and lacks periferals, and Mac lmao

many companies that have a monopoly on something do not exist today

 

[Skullpanda]

Linux. For sure. Renpy has native support for Linux, it's great.

 

[MattShizzle]

Windows. Lots of games not for Mac/phones and Linux is for computer experts.

 

[Lepomis]

Windows

 

[starlord]

Windows, of course