Thanks for sharing, I haven’t picked up Lethal Company yet but I know some other games like Shadow of Doubt use the same mod loader and I bet this will work great for them.
I use Arch + Gnome with VRR patches on my main PC.
It find it actually easier to use than e.g. fedora or ubuntu due to better documentation and way more available packages in the repos... With many, many more packages being in AUR!
By installing all the stuff commonly found on other distros (and which many consider bloat), you'll get basically the same thing as, well, any other distro. I have all the "bloat" like NetworkManager, Gnome, etc. which is known to work together very well and which tries to be smart and auto-configure a lot of stuff. Bloat it may be, but I am lazy~
Personally, I think it's better to stick to upstream distros whenever possible. For example Nobra, which is being recommended in this thread quite a lot, is maintained by a single person. In reality, it's not much more than regular Fedora with a couple of tweaks and optimizations. Vast majority of those one could do themselves on the upstream distro and avoid being dependent that one person. It is a single point of failure. after all.
Honestly Arch (and the more pure Arch derivatives like Endeavour) is fantastic as long as things don’t break, and I’ve never had anything break that wasn’t more complicated than updating my mirror list or forcibly uninstalling a conflicting package. There’s always the potential for something more serious to go wrong, but having the Arch wiki is such a fantastic resource.
I’ve been using Nobara for some time now, and I’ve been successfully able to play on Nvidia & Wayland, so that’s quite a feat in itself. Also, everything is setup at install time, so you don’t have to setup many things yourself.
Are you not playing Windows games via wine/proton?
This issue is what stops me from switching to Wayland on my GTX 1080. It basically makes games unplayable because the frames get displayed out of order
Weird, it’s definitely not fixed yet (just tried it on up to date Arch). I don’t think Nobara included a fix for it, what Desktop environment and GPU are you using?
Edit: Also happens on nvidia-open drivers and with RTX 40xx cards, which is mentioned here
So if it really doesn’t happen on your system in XWayland apps these people would probably be very interested in your setup
Are you on a laptop using Prime Render offload? That fixes it, otherwise you probably just didn’t notice. I’d recommend you compare it to gaming on X11
This bug was the nail in the coffin on Nvidia for me and I finally picked up a 6700 XT to replace my 2080 this month…
But, when I was on my 2080 trying out Wayland, I of course always noticed this bug on actual apps themselves (such as my IDE…) but it didn’t always manifest in games, at least not till 545 came out.
Not sure why, since of course most games are run through XWayland. Perhaps they’re in a similar situation and I’d be curious if they opened something like Discord, if they saw it there.
I have EndeavourOS, but with the nature of Bleeding Edge packages, things can break, so setup automatic snapshots with btrfs (you want this for your data anyways).
Bleeding Edge packages have the advantage of you getting the latest features, patches and improvements, which is required for some gaming cases.
Not much a of a definitive answer here imo. There's a lot of distros that fit this criteria, but I would definitely stay away from Debian due to the age of the packages. As said, you don't have to go with a rolling distro but at least look for those who keep at least their gaming related packages fairly updated.
The tough part about Arch & similar rolling distros is that they can and will break when you update something, and then you have to know how to fix it. I used Manjaro & EndeavourOS for quite a while. Manjaro was actually stable for me, but when I wanted to reinstall after a couple years to switch to btrfs I thought I try EndeavourOS, due to the criticism towards Manjaro. Unfortunately it didn't even took a year for it to break and now I'm on Nobara, which is okay but also has many issues that annoy me. OpenSUSE Tumbleweed is another often mentioned one, which is rolling but with a delay too, but when I tried it out (before installing Nobara) it was extremely hard to install as the installer was buggy and when it finally was installed it was extremely broken to the point where I couldn't even change my resolution properly.
Bazzite is a project of uBlue, which is Fedora Silverblue with a lot of gaming stuff on top, similar to Nobara or the tweaks on the Steam Deck.
It has the same big advantage of every other immutable distro, that you don’t have to manage your system yourself. It updates without you noticing, will never break, you can easily roll back if something doesn’t work as intended, and so on.
The cool thing is, that you can just rebase to another atomic variant if you don’t like it, or when you realize, that every gaming distro is just as capable for gaming as every other conventional distro too.
That's a Kbin thing, you'll get used to it. Also images in comments like the one you posted doesn't federate with some (I think, maybe they don't federate at all) lemmy servers, so maybe they can't see it either
Don't worry, it's a Kbin thing. It doesn't format correctly some fancy texts from Lemmy and we see a text box with the html tags and all. It should be ok on lemmy
That’s weird, Half Life 2 had a Linux version noted in Steam and it runs fine. L4D didn’t have a Linux version noted and it didn’t give me the option to install it until I selected Proton. I don’t know, I’m very new to gaming on Linux so its probably user error.
Tbf most devs probably want to do it, they just can’t justify it financially. Most games’ programmers are computer nerds, and they would be the ones in charge of implementing that kind of stuff. They’d happily do it because obviously, as computer nerds they love Linux, but even if they accept to do some unpaid overtime just because they really want to implement this, it might get blocked by the publisher because they don’t want that kind of stuff to bypass QA especially since it has a chance of affecting all users, and when looking at the numbers, it’s just not profitable to them.
Now the steam deck could change that dynamic because it has a decent market share, and I would love to see the actual numbers but I’d be willing to bet that most deck owners buy more games than the average player.
Source: am games’ programmer, computer nerd, and steam deck owner
I’ll just add on that BSG are a horrible example when it comes to delivering on “promises” and plans.
If memory serves, the official plan is still to do a steam release when EFT is “out of beta”. But they realized they make a LOT more money if they control the whole store so… Which is likely why they moved away from Steam Audio, continue to use their grossly incompetent anti-cheat solution, etc. Nikita et al will “heavily imply” they are doing stuff and then just ignore it because people keep buying top tier accounts so they can have maximum storage and so forth.
Also: SP Tarkov works REALLY well under Proton. Something about the new gui for the spt-installer needs more dependencies to work again, but the actual game runs great if you can be bothered to manually patch it.
I haven’t gotten around to trying Streets yet (lately I just do a few factory runs and that is it), but that map is already pushing the “limits” of Tarkov’s use of Unity and is still new and prone to performance issues. So not surprised there would be problems with sptarkov.
Tarkov is in a different much more complex situation. It uses some Battleye addons that are custom made for the game that Battleye will not port to work on Linux.
If it was an issue on the user’s end then it’s possible 3rd parties could fix it (as Wine/Proton has for every game not designed for GNU+Linux). BattleState Games have decided they don’t want to host servers without BattlEye for us to play on and that we’re not entitled to host our own servers.
I did consider installing Windows on a machine just for Tarkov but install and using modern Windows looks like hell. I’d rather install Windows XP than Windows .
League of Legends does work but it's painful. I use an AUR package called leagueoflegends-git which was the only way I could get it to work on my setup.
https://leagueoflinux.org/ has been invaluable. It used to be a subreddit but it's been made private since the API debacle.
Well, painful for me. I tried Lutris, Bottles and native Wine and none worked. I played around with wine-lol for a bit too but the AUR package was the one that got it working.
Yeah, I used Lutris a couple years ago and it worked pretty well. I don’t like League much, but it worked well enough for my friend to play a few games with me to show me how to play.
You don’t say what version of Debian you’re using but avoid stable on a gaming system. Debian tends to be more minimal OOTB too, and you may need to enable some non-free repos. Hardware matters too, with certain distributions having better Nvidia support in particular.
I can install the proprietary drivers myself. It will be a blast from the past, as when I started in Linux. Fun times. That concern is easy to address.
Try Fedora 38 and enjoy that different type of pain.
Use an Ubuntu derivative geared towards gaming maybe. Ubuntu stock is made generic to perform as best for core features on as many hardware configurations as possible. There’s also a TON of tools and scripts out there that can tune a default install for you to make it perform better for gaming.
Or use Nobara and probably quite a bit less pain; meanwhile, stability for me has been …not as good as mint … But I havent tried to track it down either so maybe it’s just something simple.
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