I finally plan to wipe my Windows PC and install SteamOS on it after the forced push to Windows 12. The requirement to have a connected account just to login is a complete dealbreaker for a machine that I only play games on. I don’t need OneDrive. I don’t need to be connected to Microsoft’s portals. I’ll never need to recover anything on here via the web.
RIP to the local admin account. You were awesome. Thanks for making the switch easy, Microsoft.
Wrote some scripts that performs the switching like it’s being done on ChimeraOS & the Steam Deck. Want to release them in a repository some time, but they’re awfully hacky right now.
Want to release them in a repository some time, but they’re awfully hacky right now.
No, do it. And don’t forget to put a license on it. I’d rather have “hacky” answers to my question that I can improve on, rather than searching for how to do something and coming up with nothing.
Welcome to the club! Linux gaming is light years better than it’s ever been before. I don’t miss Windows at all and 95% of games I try seem to work now with only modest tinkering at most. Tell your friends!
I’ve been at this since before valve expressed any interest in Linux. Years of spending more time trying to get the game to run rather than gaming. Back when Ubuntu CDs were a thing, and before I stopped liking Ubuntu.
It’s more convenient and I can’t afford a high end office chair for the desktop. The last few used ones got scooped up even in bad condition. I’ve tried the car bucket seat type and even have one from a workplace ‘boomer execs trying to be hip raffle event’, but car seats are generally uncomfortable to begin with.
But yeah the deck is pretty excellent for anything it can maintain a stable frame rate with and I use it even when performance is a bit iffy. I tell anyone considering one that it handles like a wiiu gamepad with better button placements though.
I’ve definitely recommended it to people, especially when they’re just wanting to get into some basic gaming. It’s almost console level easy in a lot of cases, and if they want to get more involved in PC games in the future, their game library and everything carries right over.
The display I bought a few years ago doesn’t support HDR because I didn’t think it’d be supported so soon. The Steam Deck and the money put into developing the Linux desktop was really unexpected to me.
the kernel versions for eos were 665, 666 and 667 its been happening on all three, happened on both x11 and wayland as for graphics driver, both the mesa and amdvlk options did the same thing over a few versions.
again the only game that did this was rise. monster hunter world and resident evil run on the same engine as rise and they run fine, lies of p worked fine, valhiem, sonic. literally only rise and it runs fine on tumbleweed.
A few games that could support it with the flick of a switch (or quite literally a checkbox) such as Rust and Fortnite do not, but EAC itself does support Linux and quite well. VRChat uses EAC and it runs just fine (thousands of hours with it working), just as one example.
At this point, if a game doesn’t work on Linux with EAC, it is 100% pure unadulterated laziness on the company’s part. They can literally enable it and say “We officially don’t support Linux, don’t ask us for help if you play on it.”
While I don’t play Apex I have put way too much time into Battlebit Remastered which also uses EAC and I’ve never had an issue being kicked.
Other games I’ve tried with EAC are Ironsight, Killing Floor 2 and Elden Ring, and they all worked fine. Rust being the only one I had to give up after switching (tho that’s probably a good thing for my mental health)
After every patch I can play 1 match. Then I get kicked because some random file has a version mismatch. From there on the game will not let me back into the lobby screen because of version mismatches.
I’ve tried deleting the proton prefix, reinstalls on various ssds and hdds, different proton versions…
And it’s definitely an Apex issue since a ton of other EAC games work just fine for me.
The only thing that actually works reliably is booting to Windows and playing it from there for me.
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