this post was submitted on 15 May 2025
64 points (94.4% liked)

Asklemmy

48030 readers
516 users here now

A loosely moderated place to ask open-ended questions

Search asklemmy 🔍

If your post meets the following criteria, it's welcome here!

  1. Open-ended question
  2. Not offensive: at this point, we do not have the bandwidth to moderate overtly political discussions. Assume best intent and be excellent to each other.
  3. Not regarding using or support for Lemmy: context, see the list of support communities and tools for finding communities below
  4. Not ad nauseam inducing: please make sure it is a question that would be new to most members
  5. An actual topic of discussion

Looking for support?

Looking for a community?

~Icon~ ~by~ ~@Double_[email protected]~

founded 6 years ago
MODERATORS
 

I'm considering installing Linux on my laptop but I'm unsure if I should start with a virtual machine first. My main use cases are gaming and coding, so I want to make sure it's the right fit.

What are the pros and cons of using Linux for someone like me? Would starting with VirtualBox be a good idea before going all in?

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (3 children)

I do remember there was a site where you could check how well a game ran on linux

Is this the one? WineHQ AppDB

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

I'd say that is more like a bug tracker than a database for if something works well

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

There’s a blast from the past. But WineHQ was never a good or reliable database for this purpose, you were always better off just trying the software and moving to a native alternative if it didn’t work than lean on this for decent information.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Might've been, but I don't remember it being so red. I'm on mobile right now though, and my PC browser loads everything in dark mode, maybe the colors were affected.

In any case, the site my buddy showed me ranked games according to performance just like that one so that one would still be useful.