For me the answer is not 'this' or 'that' - It depends. I have taken part in the poll and my answer was "I would play a game for Windows on WINE/Proton", which is typically my solution when (1) The game *works* on WINE/Proton, (2) I already own the game, and (3) I specifically want to play *that* game.

This gives me the opportunity to mention a few things of interest, related to my overall position:

I'm quite disciplined with myself when it comes to making game purchases or deciding what I'll play. Gave developers are generally losing out, when they don't release a game natively on Linux - because I hold back from buying games if Linux is not supported. I held back *for years* on The Witcher 3, but eventually 'gave in to temptation' when it dropped to 80% off.

On the other side of the coin, I watched reviews of Early Access "Slay The Spire" and was captivated by the game play, and I was very keen to begin playing it as soon as I could. The cherry on top was that even though it was EA, the StS developers had a native Linux build. I got it at the full asking price and played and played that game, enthralled by it. (I was one of the early supporters giving a high-praise review early on in its production - and the Devs never let me down.)

Putting this into perspective, I was just as keen on Witcher 3 as I was on Slay The Spire - But without the native Linux capability, I just could not bring myself to part with the money.

It is quite similar when it comes to the games themselves. If I have two comparable titles *in my collection* but one is a native Linux build and one is Windows (Proton-capable) then I'll install and favour the Linux one. (I've got such a back-log to get through, ahem.)

Moving on to Windows-only Anti-Cheat games - I tend to avoid these like the plague. I do have a dual-boot system, but it is only for exceptional cases where I actually boot up Windows. No, I won't boot up Windows to play RUST. I still own the game and I liked playing it a lot, but it isn't *good enough* that I'm willing to boot up (spit) Windows in order to play it.

Quoting: Arcadius-8606Missing the use a cloud service option

Unfortunately, I forgot to add this option, and I can't edit it now.

I don't use it, so I can't say too much about them. It's an interesting concept to sort out all of the issues differently.

I understand why people use them, but I always preferred to have a game for Linux installed/unpacked on my computer.

Of course, everyone could have a different opinion about it.

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Quoting: Arcadius-8606Missing the use a cloud service option

Unfortunately, I forgot to add this option, and I can't edit it now.

I don't use it, so I can't say too much about them. It's an interesting concept to sort out all of the issues differently.

I understand why people use them, but I always preferred to have a game for Linux installed/unpacked on my computer.

Of course, everyone could have a different opinion about it.

I mainly use them for online only games. I see no reason for a ONLINE MP game to have hard drive space on my machines.

Quoting: Arcadius-8606I mainly use them for online only games. I see no reason for a ONLINE MP game to have hard drive space on my machines.

Have you thought about using bigger and cheaper hard drives instead of SSDs for storing games on your computer?

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Quoting: Arcadius-8606Have you thought about using bigger and cheaper hard drives instead of SSDs for storing games on your computer?

What do you mean? The games that I own and play are small. The biggest game I own is 4 GB. I'm just not going to install an ONLINE ONLY game on my computer ever. It's browser based or nothing for me when it comes to those types of games.

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Quoting: Arcadius-8606What do you mean? The games that I own and play are small. The biggest game I own is 4 GB. I'm just not going to install an ONLINE ONLY game on my computer ever. It's browser based or nothing for me when it comes to those types of games.

I thought that also you don't have enough space to keep more games on your computer.

I decided to keep my two old hard drives in my main computer, which means 4 Terabytes only for games. In this case, I don't have to bother about how many games I installed on them.

I use an SSD for daily tasks and storing documents or other smaller files, but I'm cheap, so this SSD is only 500 GB.

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Quoting: gbudnyI use an SSD for daily tasks and storing documents or other smaller files, but I'm cheap, so this SSD is only 500 GB.

In a similar vein, I decided to buy a 240GB SSD to use on my Raspberry Pi 4 (over usb3) and it only cost £22 ($28 USD). Although it adds to the overall size of the Pi unit, the performance and reliability benefits far outweigh running with an SD card.

Quoting: gbudnyI thought that also you don't have enough space to keep more games on your computer.

I decided to keep my two old hard drives in my main computer, which means 4 Terabytes only for games. In this case, I don't have to bother about how many games I installed on them.

I use an SSD for daily tasks and storing documents or other smaller files, but I'm cheap, so this SSD is only 500 GB.

ah. I have plenty of SSDs. I get a good deal of them for free from business going belly up around me and with Microcenter near by. I have over 15 500 GB SSDs that were free from Microcenter alone when they mail out those Yellowclip coupons. A ton of free SD and 32 GB Flash thumb drives too.

I don't own many games. My entire collection combine it under 40 GB.

My main rig is a Raspberry Pi 4 - 8 GB. It's attached to 250 GB SSD and has a 1TB SD installed.

Quoting: g000hIn a similar vein, I decided to buy a 240GB SSD to use on my Raspberry Pi 4 (over usb3) and it only cost £22 ($28 USD). Although it adds to the overall size of the Pi unit, the performance and reliability benefits far outweigh running with an SD card.

Yes once you mount a SSD on your Raspberry Pi 4 you no longer suffer from all kinds of issues like the web video slow loading. Though I will say that Odroid XU4 has a better performance on SD by a long mile.

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Quoting: gbudnyHave you thought about using bigger and cheaper hard drives instead of SSDs for storing games on your computer?

What do you mean? The games that I own and play are small. The biggest game I own is 4 GB. I'm just not going to install an ONLINE ONLY game on my computer ever. It's browser based or nothing for me when it comes to those types of games.

But, why? I don't understand.

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Quoting: CyrilBut, why? I don't understand.

If a game is ONLINE only, why should I put it on my HD and deal with the space issues for a game that is dead to me when I am offline?

Chances are also that an online only game has DRM or anti-cheat....If it's that bad out here put it in the cloud and call it a day.

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