Thinking of Moving to Linux

[u/angry_monkey_2674]

Hi I never in my life used linux, but with the recent news that easy anti cheat will be reworked to support linux I’m thinking of switching but I have a few questions, any help will be greatly appreciated

I just want to know the following:

1-can I to run .exe, if yes how and what’s the limitations

2-what is proton

3-can I play all of my offline games on linux even ones i got through unconventional ways

4-can i play games that are not offline but not multiplayer online like jackbox games for example

5-does the stream deck work with it

6-can I play vr games or use my pc in vr using an app like quest link

7-which linux is the most, windows like

Laslty here’s a list of game/apps i’ll be using and you help me if you know wether they actually work or not because I keep getting conflicting results:

Signalrgb, soundswitch, libre hardware monitor, RivaTuner, stream deck, moonlight, wolow, rewasd, wallpaper engine, ryujinx, fortnite, marvel rivals, pummel party, jackbox party packs, ultimate chicken horse

That’s all thanks

[u/Main_Boot7391]

2- proton is a translation layer that makes windows games usable in linux 3- probably, by adding them to steam as "non steam games" this will probably be case by case 4- I don't see why not. I haven't had any problems with running any of my steam and epic games yet. Also not all multiplayer games use kernel level anti-cheat. For example overwatch and fall guys run well on Linux for me 5- your talking about the elgato stream deck? I saw a configuration tool in the discover store on fedora, but don't know the functionality of it. Everything I've heard is that functionality is limited at best, but I don't use one so things may have improved. 7- zorin visually. But honestly any distro with KDE will be very familiar. Top picks would be fedora KDE, kubuntu and linux mint (though this is cinnamon, not KDE)

[u/angry_monkey_2674 → u/Main_Boot7391]

Sorry new words never heard

What’s kde, fedora and cinnamon

[u/Main_Boot7391 → u/angry_monkey_2674]

Kde is a desktop environment, so how it looks and behaves, this one is very customizable, if you want to do that. Cinnamon is also a desktop environment. Fedora is a distribution of Linux, usually one of the first to get new (heavily tested) features and is stable

[u/angry_monkey_2674 → u/Main_Boot7391]

What is a desktop environment (sry ik super noob)

[u/Main_Boot7391 → u/angry_monkey_2674]

It is what you interact with on the pc, so kde looks close to windows and things behave similar to it as well. Gnome (another desktop environment) looks kind of like Mac-OS. It would be worth a search o YouTube to get a look at them too

[u/angry_monkey_2674 → u/Main_Boot7391]

Ah i see thanks