You seem to have run in a few issues right off the gate, usually, one would just install steam through the distro’s repositories, then let steam itself install whichever proton version they need need and run re game without any problems
You might get more success trying to fix the first installation process of steam failing than messing around with flat-packs and such.
The steam installation process didn’t fail, when I attempted to launch a game it would get eternally hung up on the directx script. This persisted across multiple reinstalls of the traditional steam distro in the software. Plus I literally got the advice to try flatpak from a GitHub thread.
Installing it via flatpak was the only way I could get anything to launch.
I have no intention to push you towards another distro since you will get more out of fixing issues on the one you have than just hopping, but what made you get nobara instead of a more tried and trusted distribution like base fedora or arch derivatives ?
Nobara is just fedora with wine and proton dependencies installed and some other software like discord prepackaged, or so I was lead to believe.
What’s wrong with it? I chose it over arch because fedora has a longer track record since it’s the professional Linux distro. I figured that was a good move.
Nobara is just fedora with wine and proton dependencies installed and some other software like discord prepackaged, or so I was lead to believe.
What’s wrong with it? I chose it over arch because fedora has a longer track record since it’s the professional Linux distro. I figured that was a good move.
I don’t know enough about neither fedora nor Nobara to even have an opinion about It, but I do feel like it is a bit counterintuitive to install a niche distro which added fun stuff to a fairly pro oriented distribution when there are “major” distributions that have been all about fun stuff since long ago like mint/arch and such. But that’s just me extrapolating from the time I was using opensuse and was stuggling to find documentation and/or support on my pursuit of fun, which led me back to arch-based stuff, arch being a distro 100% created for people to dick around in rather than work
The last time I tried to get into Linux gaming I intended to use Arch, but had trouble finding an iso file to build a bootable from. I searched for help online and what did the first guy ask me?
“Why would you want to use Arch when Nobara is a “purpose built for gamers” fork of the track record holding fedora distro intended for professional use?”
Keeping in mind that I intend to use the laptop for desktop capture through OBS and possibly light editing through Davinci which I’ve already got working. Maybe that altered why that particular user suggested the gamified professional distro Nobara instead of Arch, idk.
At the end of the day everyone’s got an opinion and a justification for that opinion. I used Nobara because Rufus built the bootable with their iso first time up no fuss. If Arch had been as simple maybe I’d be on that instead.
Haha, can’t blame you one bit, asking for distro advice on a linux forum is like asking about tool brands at a cookout.
though now that you have a distro installed, you’ll be able to put linux iso on a usb drive using the “restore disk image” function in gnome-disk, way less finicky than rufus.
Yeah thanks to wine developers, valve funding, vulkan and all the projects in the middle, it really has come a long way. Anticheat and drm are just the last brick we missing for a complete support for almost every game.
When I need a microphone I use my Cloud Alpha S, but most of the time I use my Letshuoer S12 with a CX-31993 and in the future I plan on getting an Audio Technica ATH-R70x.
If you want wireless, you could always get a good pair of headphones and pair them with either the FiiO BTR5 or the Qudelix5k.
I started using Linux in 2008, and full time in 2011. I remember I could play natively to a bunch of games, like Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup, Neverball, Torcs, Dark Oberon, and others. I enjoyed those games, and I still enjoy some of them today. I think it was in 2013 when Steam announced it was coming to Linux, and native ports came too, like Braid and Dynamite Jack. Now, despite my hardware limitations, I can enjoy GTA IV, Stellaris, Prison Architect, Dwarf Fortress, The Stanley Parable Ultra Deluxe...
Things changed for the better, and thanks to Steam Deck, it'll keep changing.
Been straight Linux since 2005ish. It’s definitely really improved just before COVID - things just work now without fiddling. In the past yeah, I had to fiddle quite a bit to make things work and write up some scripts for installs that would break next patch, but now I’m almost done a Witcher 3 play-through on Linux without even needing to adjust a thing.
No, but I had no major problem gaming with an Nvidia card on Tumbleweed. Just followed the wiki guide and added it to the zypper repos and everything was fine.
It’s been a beautiful thing to see. IIRC Proton was announced and usable sometime in 2018. Things were still rough then but it was a good sign.
When DOOM Eternal dropped it didn’t work for a while and I’d refresh the GitHub issue page daily until one day it was fixed and has worked perfectly ever since.
Apex Legends was one of the only things keeping me dualbooting Windows, then February last year it comes out that Apex added Proton compatibility for EAC thanks to the work Valve did behind the scenes collaborating with anti-cheat developers, so I nuked my Windows partition and haven’t looked back.
We’ve had some crazy momentum over the past few years and it seems things keep improving a step up every few months. Not to mention projects like GloriousEggroll’s proton that has consistently been offering patches to fix certain games earlier than they’re released with Valve’s upstram Proton Expiremental.
Id periodically gone full-time Linux on and off over the past 6 or 7 years and it was always gaming that pulled me back. Now it’s been a good 4 years aside from dualbooting for Apex and with that out of the way I haven’t really had a need to touch Windows at all since. This is truly the best time so far to be gaming on Linux :D
Yeah, when I found out Titanfall+Northstar mod works flawlessly on Linux, it was a pretty good day (the Northstar devs even package the mod as a custom Proton runner just for us Linux users)
Oh yeah! Earlier this year i bought Titanfall 2 on sale and was so hyped to see how well Northstar worked with it. It’s one of my favorite multiplayer games now for just casually hopping in matches here and there. The movement mechanics are so damn satisfying
Unfortunately it’s pretty normal for gaming laptops to get very hot. Check your internal temperatures though, if your CPU is over 90C on heavy load you may have to reapply thermal paste. Also clean the vents and fans when you get a chance.
The outside heat of the laptop doesn’t matter much, just make sure the CPU doesn’t hit 98C or so.
From what I got yesterday it balanced around 70. But think I have to realise that it’s about time a I got a new laptop, something with Linux at its core.
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