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Pretty much to the point of the title. I've been picking up sim racing recently, and really want to cut over to Linux full time. Problem is, I can't run iRacing on any distro I've tried without a ton of effort (which I no longer have the time for), so that's become a bit of a road block. I haven't considered other sims, though, and am curious if others have experience running other sims or simcades (pCars 2, ACC, RaceRoom, etc.), and what hardware you use.
Any feedback is super welcome. I really want to ditch Windows once and for all on my desktop, but this is enough to hold me here even just a little bit.