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: Read more

Simple: Install Linux! Okay, that might sound too blunt, Tomas, but it’s true: The last bare-metal Windows installation in the household, my dedicated “gaming machine”, has recently been reinstalled with GNU/Linux Debian. Microsoft’s passive-aggressive Windows 10 EOL threat doesn’t work on me, or at least not in intended way. I was surprised to find out that Steam games not only just run but also have a approx 10–15% speed bump. And that’s on my old nVidia 1070. Impressive! Read more