I own Windows 11 and my computer and preferred OS (Fedora) support TPM and Secure boot. Is it worth the time to configure that stuff to run W11, or should I just continue to run W10 since I don’t do anything but run a couple games?

I have a robust backup, so even a system wide Nuke is a day’s worth of re-installing, worst case.

Honestly, since I boot W10 so rarely, it’ll kinda be nice not to have to update it every time.

  • slazer2au@lemmy.worldEnglish
    12·
    18 hours ago

    Honestly no. Proton should be able to handle anything but loot box games with shooting mechanics.

    What do you play?

    • yesman@lemmy.worldOP
      17·
      18 hours ago

      I need windows for flight sims. My problem is not so much the software, it’s the hardware. I have a head-tracking camera, a set of pedals, a throttle, and joystick. All need separate drivers. None support Linux. My throttle is so old that it hasn’t been supported since W7 and it’s work to get it going on W10.

      It’s just way easier to dual boot than to try to get all that hardware running on Linux.

      • refreeze@lemmy.world
        7·
        17 hours ago

        I run MSFS 2024 using proton on Linux, and have had reasonable success running other native windows addons (BeyondATC, opentrack for head tracking with webcam) in the same proton prefix by installing using protontricks then launching them all using the “exe.xml” trick for MSFS (see: https://forums.flightsimulator.com/t/start-multiple-programs-on-msfs-startup-with-this-exe-xml-tip/350698). I just do manual keybinds for my hardware inside the sim and it all works well, as a bonus performance seems a bit higher than on Windows.

      • Paragone@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        17 hours ago

        It may be hard to find drivers for them, but if you’re using X-Plane, you may be able to get everything working in Linux, well-enough.

        X-Plane.org ( the social-site, not the sw-company ) has randomly-distributed discussions about drivers, & some of those have good links.

        I’ve learned that I have to add my gaming-user-account to the INPUT group, to get the flight-sim stuff to work, as some of the stuff ( rudder-pedals, quadrant ) don’t appear, otherwise…

        & you can’t configure what you aren’t being allowed to see, obviously…

        but running un-updated MS-Windows is … security-suicide, in my eyes.

        Too many ransomware attacks, & some of those bork ALL partitions on one’s system, not just the within-Windows stuff, as 1 single security-risk…

        https://search.theregister.com/?q=microsoft

        Please scroll through a few pages of those headlines, before deciding to remain in your relationship with MS…

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