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  • I think rust has good ideas and may even become the default systems language in the mid-term. I find it irritating that there is a very vocal subset of rust proponents that tend to insist that every project in every language needs to be rewritten in rust immediately. I suspect that is also why other people are down on rust.






  • It’s better today than it was a year ago, and WAY better than it was 3 years ago, and is still improving. There are a few categories of games where you are likely to have problems though.

    • competitive multiplayer games [kernel level anticheat, that one will probably remain a problem]
    • very old games [getting better all the time, because wine is getting better all the times]
    • very new AAA games [they mostly use one of a handful of game engines, so they tend to get fixed in batches]

    I would say whether linux is ready for (windows) gaming depends on is different per person predicated on:

    1. What categories of games you play
    2. Any specific problematic game that is a dealbreaker for you

    For me, I tend to play some older games, and there are a few that don’t work well. I don’t want to boot windows, so I just decide I can wait for it to get there for them.

    For some people, “ready” means will run every windows program as if running on windows. We’re still a ways off from that, if we ever get there (it’s a moving target, as windows is still being developed…)