At the end of October I switched my gaming machine from Win10 to Linux.1 Not without some 2nd thoughts how the games would perform. This weekend it was finally time to tackle the supposedly toughest one: The Microsoft Flight Simulator.
It is likely Microsoft’s flagship product, significantly older than Windows.2 After 43 years, it remains one of Microsoft’s oldest continuously supported software products. That definitely won’t run on Linux I thought. How wrong I was. The images speak for themselves:
This afternoon I have made a virtual trip within the EDLW CTR
Crosswind landing on Runway 24 in EDLW Dortmund-Holzwickede
Even my virtual logbook was imported
Microsoft Flight Simulator on Linux works very well
The long winter evenings can come. If only Microsoft knew how smoothly their flagship product runs on Linux. Including Saitek pedals and SideWinder2 ForceFeedback, Azure photogrammetry,3 live weather and other online players. I only still need to work on the fs2ff bridge4 to integrate it into Enroute, which I also use in real flights.5
Yours,
Tomas Jakobs