I think some of the text got cut off. The rest says " Congratulations, ALL of your 2023 Steam gaming was on Linux! You’ve proven Windows is unnecessary for fun and brought honor to team penguin!" 🐧🐧🐧🐧🐧
I’ve been using Linux more and more recently but one thing that annoys me is my EndevourOS thinks the PC is not in when I’m playing games via a gamepad, therefore dims the screen and tries to sleep. How do I fix this? I’m honestly surprised I even need to.
KDE? You tried “Systemsettings > Power Management > Energy Saving > Dim Screen” maybe already? I don’t have what you’re describing either und Arch nor Endeavor.
There used to be an issue with IPV6 being enabled causing steam downloads to be very slow on Linux. I remember people saying that disabling IPV6 resolved the issue.
What cope. I still run into countless compatibility issues which bars Linux from daily use for me. Stop trying to downplay proton compatibility, it just makes your arguments appear disingenuous.
I would fully switch over to Linux in a heartbeat if there was no compatibility problems.
first, file a report. so devs are aware of your problem.
second, i feel you. i’m in the same situation. if i switch to linux right now, my stream deck will lose features and i probably on’t be able to use my steering wheel anymore. plus i really struggled to install fusion360.
Im not aware of any. Most clones have a very different architecture (and programming language, most clones dont run on the JVM) than Minecraft, even tho some projects go for feature parity and support the original Minecraft multiplayer protocol.
So, no licencing problem Im aware of, mods are free to be shared under whatever licence and many are FOSS, but a technical problem.
I think the other response was quite accurate. Different language and architecture makes it harder. There are mods made for minetest that can work with MineClone2, so there may be some stuff you’ll enjoy, but usually they have to specify it’s available for MineClone2. Here is a page if you want to have a look: content.minetest.net/packages/Wuzzy/…/hub/
Minetest modding is actually quite nice to do from what I’ve heard.
itd be easier to port the mods if anything, since Minetest is meant to be a lot easier to mod and extend than Minecraft. In fact, many of these Minecraft-like games for Minetest are an amalgamation of dozens of individual mods
Thanks for the heads up! I appreciate it. I will check it out. Am an old school minecraft player from the beta days, a server admin and so on. Since I switched to linux and the foss world, microsofts minecraft really rubs me the wrong way. „Look what they did to my boy“ style.
Yeah, its sad. I‘m still playing from time to time but the telemetry and the regular „authentication servers down“ sh*t is really trying to tell me something I suppose.
considering most Minecraft mods directly mess with the Minecraft code as opposed to going through a well defined API (forge and fabric only provide so much) you can’t really make that work without outright stealing Minecraft code
the best you can make would be resourcepack and datapack compatibility. maybe whatever molang stuff bedrock’s up to
Thanks for explaining. This helps understanding the situation. It kind of makes me sad that microsoft is ruining minecraft bit by bit it seems. I recently got „informed“ that minecraft is now collecting telemetry without my consent. It was kind of the breaking point tbh.
There are still a lot of proton games where I encounter the weirdest bugs and when I report those the game devs don’t do anything about it and say it’s a proton/linux issue what they don’t support. For some games, especially VR, windows is mandatory.
I have a WMR headset, am still on a dual-boot of Pop!_OS and Windows 10 with my gaming pc. I have an Nvidia RTX 3080 and don’t want to worry about compatibility with kernel so Pop!_OS fixes that for me. I also love window tiling, which it does pretty well (not as good as Sway and Hyprland but close enough).
At this point, I can do everything on Linux except for 1 thing: Use my HP Reverb VR headset. It’s a Windows (WMR) headset and doesn’t work on Linux. But it is essential for my gaming, as about 80% of my gaming time is spent flying aircraft and helicopters in DCS: World in VR. I got a whole simpit setup with crazy good stick, pedals and throttle and everything.
I am really hoping to switch the headset out for a SteamVR-native headset and ditch Windows before Windows 10 support ends in 2025. First step is to install DCS on Linux and start flying it outside VR to help find bugs and assess when it is good enough to switch VR headsets.
And yes, I did consider upgrading to an AMD card for the improved Linux performance but the RX 7900 XT didn’t do DCS in VR (on Windows) well, even after the big driver update this Summer that was supposed to fix the stutters.
I didn’t bother because I got plenty of playtime from it and got it through the Steam Controller/Link bundle as well. But I did consider it since I was ticked about losing Linux support.
That’s how I’ve been for a few years now. Windows has serious bugs that I encounter all the time that I never encounter with Linux.
Just this week alone… screenshots stopped working, usb microphones were stuck on mute, and the taskbar crashed preventing me from using any touchpad gestures or even accessing the start menu to restart.
The task bar was fixed with a restart but the other two issues required a reinstall of the os. I troubleshot those for like an hour without any solution.
I know! I have to use windows at work (IT Admin) and using powershell always makes me wish the software we need ran on Linux. Just today I needed to extract a partition image with dism and it just did nothing for half an hour before the progress bar even came up. People say that Linux is buggy but gnome gives me way less headaches than windows 11.
Windows unfairly gets the reputation of being more reliable than linux. I’m just waiting for my work to make one app available on Linux and then I’m switching.
I use Linux because I like it, games are just a bonus. I’ve been Linux only before Steam came to Linux, and I’ll be here if it ever leaves. It works well for me.
And you are a champion among men but there will forever be an obnoxious minority that will never be able to cope with the fact that other people don’t share their preferences.
Eh, just ignore those people, they’re generally quite toxic. And it’s not unique to Linux users, go to any windows-specific community/forum and you’ll see similar fanboyism, they just say it from a different high horse.
My wife uses Windows, I use Linux, and I use macOS at work. They’re all fine, I just prefer Linux. I have a Windows install as well in case I need it for any reason, though I haven’t booted into it for a year or two (last time was to try to get Minecraft Bedrock set up for my kid for crossplay, but their friend ended up flaking).
Nah, it’s fine for just gaming, provided the games you want work fine. If you mostly play SP games, you’ll probably be fine, but if you play MP, check first.
That said, I would probably just get a console if I only used my PC for gaming. But I use it for a lot of other stuff, and I find Windows gets in the way. YMMV though, depending on what you need your computer to do.
RX6600 on arch. It was kinda a nightmare a few weeks ago ngl. The whole screen freeze, lost the video signal then gives false hopes by returning the signal to the screen but still freezed requiring a hard reset.
I crashed in the middle of a game.
I crashed on the desktop when i just started the session.
I crashed every time i tried to open blender 4.0 because i enabled the HIP option, some rocm or mesa had dependencies issues or something, i ended up installing the flakpak.
I was blown away when i discovered that launching LibreOffice made me crash, ended up using the flatpak too.
I made a new fresh install of arch on a different drive and did some quick tests, the issue was still here.
I’m not having those frequent freezes anymore so there’s that. Don’t know what’s so special about these cards but holy moly that’s my first time having so many issues with a graphics card.
As a fellow Linux user I entirely agree. I stay off the forums as much as possible. My latest crime was uploading a tutorial on how to update the bios on certain laptop models. Got fucking roasted, even on lemmy.
For some reason Linux forums are like stack exchange; an extremely toxic neckbeard pissing match.
Eh, you’ll get the worse of any userbase if you go to a community specifically for that OS. Go to PC Master race or whatever to see the opposite problem.
I’ve been on Linux exclusively for something like 15 years, but I almost never bring it up. In fact, I don’t even mention my distro of choice unless it’s directly relevant, and if asked I recommend something different (I recommend Mint Debian edition because I’ve heard it’s very user friendly).
I also find many people in communities like this insufferable as well, so I spend my time trying to tone them down a bit with comments like “Linux isn’t for everyone, but it’ll always be there if you decide to give it another try.” I use Linux because it works better for me than Windows, yet many here make it a religion or something. It’s kinda weird.
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