Wiping years of game data was rough
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Wiping years of game data was rough.
When I first bought this desktop, Linux wasn’t even a real option for gaming.
But here’s what I’ve realized: the only person who decides when my machine is obsolete is me.
I like my rig. It still runs thousands of my games just fine. -
Wiping years of game data was rough.
When I first bought this desktop, Linux wasn’t even a real option for gaming.
But here’s what I’ve realized: the only person who decides when my machine is obsolete is me.
I like my rig. It still runs thousands of my games just fine.@atomicpoet
I remember my old rig, quite happily running reltively new games on Linux, finally failing me with the Linux native Two Worlds(?) that had been built to require CPU instruction sets not available on the venerable piece of hardware. The game ran fine on the Windows side of my dual-boot but forced me to face the fact that there's more to CPUs than frequencies... -
@atomicpoet
I remember my old rig, quite happily running reltively new games on Linux, finally failing me with the Linux native Two Worlds(?) that had been built to require CPU instruction sets not available on the venerable piece of hardware. The game ran fine on the Windows side of my dual-boot but forced me to face the fact that there's more to CPUs than frequencies...@kepic My God, I have so may memories of Two Worlds. -
Wiping years of game data was rough.
When I first bought this desktop, Linux wasn’t even a real option for gaming.
But here’s what I’ve realized: the only person who decides when my machine is obsolete is me.
I like my rig. It still runs thousands of my games just fine.@atomicpoet may I ask why the wipe? No opportunity to “port it over” from your Windows installation to the Linux one?
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@atomicpoet may I ask why the wipe? No opportunity to “port it over” from your Windows installation to the Linux one?
@oblomov I wiped the Windows partition. -
@oblomov I wiped the Windows partition.
@atomicpoet I got that, what I was wondering was rather why not back up the game data to save it from the wipe? Couldn't it have been reused under Linux?
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@atomicpoet I got that, what I was wondering was rather why not back up the game data to save it from the wipe? Couldn't it have been reused under Linux?
Oblomov Too much work. And many of those games have cloud saves anyway. Basically, I’m a lazy person and don’t want to work harder than I have to.
