Rappel que si vous êtes une personne, un groupe de potes ou un petit collectif qui veut au choix (un ou plusieurs) :
- S'émanciper du capitalisme numérique via des solutions collectives
- Avoir sa propre messagerie chiffrée
- Passer sous Linux
- Mieux comprendre le fonctionnement d'internet
- Poser des questions "bêtes" (y a pas de questions bêtes !) que vous osez pas poser à d'autres libristes

Vous pouvez me demander.

J'aurai pas forcément la réponse à tout ni le temps d'aider pour tout, mais y a moyen d'avoir au moins des pistes et débrousailler le terrain.

#XMPP #Linux #LogicielLibre #Entraide
@codimp : well ! I'm going to take you up on this offer !
I've been (mildly, as it wouldn't be for right now) considering Linux, but I'm afraid of the situation related to softwares (like Photoshop) & gaming. There are specific games I want to be able to play that are non-negotiable, and I don't know how that would work with Linux, which I've heard doesn't work for gamers much.
In particular I don't know what would happen to my Steam library : would I need to buy these games all over again ?
@ladyteruki Hey, thanks for asking!

For softwares in Linux really big licences like Photoshop can be hard to found or impossible. But You can sometimes found replacement, it depend on your needs.

For games, if you rely on Steam it will be the easyiest: Proton (the software which permit to run Windows games under Linux) is really good nowadays and it's just one click to enable it on Linux.
If you already payed your games you don't need to buy them again, they are linked to your Steam account, you will just need to install Steam on your Linux and connect to your account to reinstall your games.

And you can check if your current games run well on Linux using https://www.protondb.com/ ! You can even connect your steam account on this website and it will list all your games and tell you if it's easy to make them run on Linux or not!

The worst issues you can encounter are for games relying on plateform specific anticheat, they will simply won't work on Linux (eg. League of Legend).

Hope it helps.
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@codimp : thank you so much for taking the time to respond ! And so soon after I asked all kinds of questions !
See, links like that are exactly what I wish I knew about, but people who are newbies like me, by definition, don't know about these tools. Thank you so much. My main games are gold or platinum, so I'd be good, I think ; depending on the tweaks in question.

(the version of Photoshop I'm running is um, less than legal... I mostly worry about being able to use my psd files and such)

@ladyteruki yep for psd files I think other softwares can read them (and maybe also Photoshop can run with Wine?), but I'm really not a "design and graphism" person so I don't know how is the compatibility on this format, I retoot your post so maybe someone else will know more things on this subject
@codimp : oh yeah, exactly, running a new tool (as long as I can find something free, considering the state of my finances) is not an issue, I'm fine learning, it's just being able to keep working on some stuff. That said, I use Photoshop as a random netizen, not professionally at all, so I don't even need something targeting people who do this for money.
Do you know of a website or tool that could help me understand the differences between distributions, and that could run Proton ?
@codimp (unless Proton IS a distribution ? ^_^; )

@ladyteruki
Proton is a refurbished version of win, made by valve (so it runs on virtually any distribution)

@codimp