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vii@programming.dev 4 weeks agoCreate a live USB stick and demonstrate it to her, without deleting Windows. Bonus points if you rice the fuck out of it with some kawaii shit for your GF and make Sims 4 work with Wine.
beastlykings@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
Wine need not apply. That’s old school. Sims 4 works great in proton. Basically just install steam and the rest is handled.
Better yet, install bazzite as your distro, gaming works out of the box.
CatLikeLemming@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 weeks ago
Proton is a fork of Wine, when people say Wine in a gaming context, there’s a decent chance they just mean Proton. Also there’s absolutely no need for gaming distros in this situation, gaming works out of the box on any (semi-normal) distro, the most you’ll have to do is flick a switch in Steam.
beastlykings@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
That’s fair, I’m a bit uninformed on wine and proton’s roots. However I’d argue that for someone like OPs girlfriend, a somewhat-immutable atomic based distro like bazzite might be better. Especially if it’s only used for gaming and YouTube 🤷♂️
But different strokes for different folks, so perhaps they’d be better off just installing steam on their distro of choice 👍
CarbonBasedNPU@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
if you try giving someone used to windows an immutable distro they will think that something is wrong or things are too confusing.