+1 to everything you said. Another funny thing I noticed: I looked at my steam catalog on a family member’s Macbook. Many of the games aren’t available on Mac, plus they dropped 32 bit executable support.
I never thought that only ~15 years later (from when I first tried Linux) we would start booting into linux from a mainstream OS for gaming. How the times have changed.
Yup. I occasionally play games on macOS because that’s what I use for work, but I have to be careful because most games don’t work at all, and some run like utter crap. My main PC runs Linux and I can run pretty much everything in my library.
They can, with the Game Porting Toolkit. I’ve played Starfield and CP2077 on my Mac. Performance wasn’t great but it was playable. I expect that to improve as the tech matures.
Are you able to get Wayland working? I tried it and I kept getting kwin_wayland_drm: Atomic modeset commit failed! Cannot allocate memory messages in journalctl.
EDIT: You have to pass in fbdev=1 to the nvidia_drm module. This will disable simpledrm which was causing the issue. I now have this in my modprobe.d:
I used to help friends get their nvidia cards’ 3D drivers working with various distros around that time period. Most would have given up on it entirely if not for that. It’s so nice how much easier it is now. Now the hassle is usually anti-cheat… I’m hoping the pressure from the Steamdeck taking off in popularity counteracts that.
Anyone familiar with arch/artix who can give me a quick rundown on how to move from nvidia-dkms (artix) to nvidia-beta (aur)?
I tried trizen, but everything depends on something else right back up to steam itself and I’m wary of uninstall too many packages at once without knowing what I’m doing.
Oh well, I’ll be happy if I can get 60fps at 1080p. One advantage of an aging rig - it doesn’t have to push as many pixels as a modern monitor would need :)
<span style="color:#323232;">removing nvidia-utils breaks dependency 'nvidia-utils=535.113.01' required by lib32-nvidia-utils
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Basically, the same problem I hit trying it from trizen. And Steam wants lib32-nvidia-utils
I tried installing nvidia-utils-beta, but that breaks because the old one is needed by nvidia-dkms, and I can’t seem to get yay to consider two packages at once.
I had to remove Steam before lib32-nvida-utils would go - now Steam won’t reinstall
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Got it with --assume-installed lib32-vulkan-driver
Let’s see if it works :)
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Nope. Builds shaders (a little too quickly perhaps) and then stops.
Skyrim still works, which suggests that the problem is with version of proton and environment variables rather than the beta drivers. And at least I’m no worse off than before.
I might give this another go tomorrow - look at it with fresh eyes and all that.
I didn’t. Sunday was broken up with all sorts of RL issues, and when I did have time, I spent it on Windows playing the game.
I’ll give it another shot tomorrow. Proton experimental looks like it should do the job with minimal fuss, assuming everything else is in place. It would be nice to move over fully to Linux. Even if it does mean accepting a lower FPS for a short while.
I went 100% Linux gaming since last November (Steam Deck and Desktop).
To this day I only ran into minor annoyances like a small keyboard issue with FFXIV (fixed using a checkbox in XIVLauncher), some gamepad issues (DO NOT buy the 8bitdo Ultimate if you want to use it on Linux, it is a nightmare. But the 8bitdo Pro 2 works flawlessly). And only two game that wouldn’t work : Gog.com Necrobarista (due to a coding error that freezes the game until achievement is displayed. Steam version runs fine), and Fortnite (not a huge loss, but I like to disconnect my neurones from time to time).
Other than that and the lack of first party support for gaming peripherals, everything is great. And my Pihole log isn’t flooded by MS anymore.
Try installing GOG Galaxy with Wine (Lutris can do it for you easy) and run Necrobarista from Galaxy, this should take care of displaying the achievement.
Yeah I’ve had issues with one of my controllers so far. It’s a third party Xbox controller. It’s recognizing all the joysticks wrong. I’ll probably find a workaround someday. I just haven’t got around to it yet.
In my case it is just not recognized at all. It tells it is an Xbox controller, but gives the wrong IDs, resulting in it not being taken into account by xpad. Last time I managed to make it work I had to build a customly patched xpad, but for some reason it doesn’t work anymore…
I also struggled with getting my 8bitdo Ultimate controller to work on Linux. My solution ended being to use a Mayflash controller adapter to trick my PC into thinking it was just a normal Xinput controller, while the adapter itself thought it was a Switch Pro Controller. I’ve since become a huge fan of these little adapters, as they basically make any controller compatible with any platform, including Linux, so that’s one less annoying compatibility issue to deal with.
I went full Linux this spring. Got fed up with Windows 11 and had a great experience with my Steamdeck, so I installed Pop!_OS and have been a happy gamer ever since.
Just need to reinstall everything probably, because I have a few very weird bugs. I got workarounds, but they’re temporary and annoying.
I know this is a gaming sub, but I’ll just add that I had a similar experience with music production. Used to he a fiddly disappointimg nightmare, now it’s smooth and usable as a daily driver
I use Ubuntu Studio. First thing to do is configure it with the included Studio Controls app, which is easy.
I used Reaper on Windows so it was easy for me to just use the Linux version. I’ve also messed around with Renoise which works well on Linux. People rave about Bitwig and it’s more similar to Ableton I think, but like Ableton it’s expensive. IMO you want want one of these rather than the built in FOSS DAWs, although to be fair I haven’t tried those recently.
All these come with some built in FX to different degrees. Ubuntu Studio also includes a bunch. The free Airwindows plugins are also well worth getting.
I have a couple of U-He synths which are top notch and run native on Linux. They have some FX too which I haven’t tried.
If you want to use VSTs you’ve bought it’s doable with Yabridge apparently, I haven’t tried it.
How is it possible that I looked around for open DAW alternatives on multiple occasions (and was not succesful) and not once heard about Ubuntu Studio before right this moment? Thx for mentioning!
Just a reminder, but it’s for photo, video, and other media producers too. I haven’t used it for a while, but last time I did, it had some great tools :)
I am also a music producer and I would like to switch to Linux but feel like I would be giving up too much. Do you have any tools you would recommend to make it easier to switch and places I can do some reading you would be willing to share?
Mandrake was my intro to linux back in 2003 as well. I ran it for a few months, but ended up going back to Windows for my main pc. I kept dabbling though, and decided to find a way to make it work two years ago. It’s not been totally smooth for me, but it’s well worth the effort.
I’ve been trying to get Street fighter 6 running for a while now but it still has issues in proton. Overall it runs better than Windows by far, but in certain parts of the game the lighting goes wild and soft locks my computer by maxing out the GPU.
So it’s not all roses in Linux gaming, but it does exist which is nice.
From my very non-scientific tests on an AMD 6800U device, running steam via Bazzite + distrobox gave me a 0-2fps boost versus running steam on uBlue Kinoite with Flatpak. Mangohud was slightly easier to manage with Bazzite’s distrobox setup. I did not test power consumption between the two for mobile gaming.
The Steam Deck itself is also a great Gateway Linux platform. I’m advanced computer literate but havent really worked up the motivation to fuck around with Linux before since like you said, it was generally understood that Microsoft was the way to go for gaming. Microsoft has been pissing me off more and more since 8 though and now that I have a steam deck I know my next tower is going to be linux as well. The deck is great for turn on and game with its gaming mode, and then when I want to do something a little more advanced I just boot desktop mode on and tinker with linux, quickly getting more familiarity with its quirks and differences
I keep seeing this comment and I think people are confused about private companies.
Private company is one that’s not publicly listed (traded on an exchange). Private companies still have shareholders, they may still have board of directors with shareholders representatives sitting in them. And these shareholders can still demand returns on their investment. There’s a whole industry around this called private equity.
Now it doesn’t look like Gabe Newell ever took Private Equity funding and according to the internet he owns 50% of the Valve shares but that still means that a large pile of shares is owned by other people who get some say in the company’s direction.
So saying that Valve makes this or that decision because they are private is wrong. Most companies are private and you don’t see them being all charitable and investing in open source.
You could argue that Valve is allowed to make certain decisions more freely because he’s a co-founder who still owns the majority stake though. And the company being private means that unless he sells his shares he gets to retain that control.
Recently switched myself. I keep giggling like a coked-up chipmunk every time I download something on Steam and it just fucking works. No to minor fucking about.
Yeah I switched this weekend and haven’t had any real issues so far. Haven’t booted my windows since. I’ll probably just copy some game files to the Linux formatted Disk beforehand and then wipe it. Screw windows
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