My opinion on Manjaro seems unpopular, but I still like it. I daily-drive Manjaro happily.
It’s Arch that just works out of the box.
But most importantly, I already have it set up, and I am lazy. If it’s not broken (too much), don’t fix it.
My sister spent hours trying to play dvds on her new windows laptop ; I found her getting pissed off , turning to percussive maintenance, and starting to fill out a warranty claim on the dvd player . . .
It took about 15 minutes to download , flash (figure out how to change the sodding boot order) and run Manjaro installer/live usb stick to demonstrate how real computers can just do things like play dvds.
Manjaro is great for cases like that, since it works, is easy, and will have pretty well up to date kernel.
I mean don't get me wrong, installing arch from scratch is a good fun and educational process and very nostalgic for the 1990s . . . but i'm not doing all that on my sister's laptop just to demonstrate how shit windows is.
and i'm very grateful for valve doing it all for steamdeck.
Can you run the game from the terminal so you can see any error messages that are popping up? To do that, exit steam and run steam steam://rungamebyid/1817230
I'm assuming you're talking about this game which has an App ID of 1817230. If it's a different version of that game, find it on steamdb and use the App ID from the correct game.
I use endeavour os. Is arch made easy, while still being arch. It fills your needs, you can install any DE you like (kde myself) and a zen kernel with basically one command line. Also for nvidia if you go that way you just do “nvidia-inst” and are good to go. Another nice one that checks those boxes is nobara, a fedora spin focused on gaming.
I’d probably use arch if there was an easy general immutable/atomic version of it. I just don’t trust bleeding edge rolling enough to not have that kind of a safegaurd.
Grub has many features & addons that many others are still lacking though. But maybe we'll see some improvements in that area now as well. Still sucks for an end user.
It’s a pain. Stuff does break for no reason. I’m a slave to it’s enhanced hardware compatibility and higher success rate at running proton games that are borderline. You just can’t beat the wiki and the community support. It’s too good to not have. But you still run into issues it’s just that I’d be no better off on a different distro.
Go to ./var in home and backup the entire “com.valvesoftware.Steam” folder if you plan to use Flatpak again, or navigate to data/Steam/steamapps and copy just the stuff there. For native games you might have to look inside .config and .local in “com.valvesoftware.Steam”, that’s where games usually store their config files and saves.
If you have an Nvidia GPU don’t switch to Linux, especialy if it’s a pre-Turing model. If you have a Turing+ GPU though wait for a year until NVK is actually usable, then look into it imo.
That’s the plan, I can’t run Waydroid on the current hardware and that’s a big bummer. I got the rig when Intel+nVidia had a large lead on AMD and it was primarily for Windows gaming. But it’s a midrig at this point so the CPU would bottleneck. I’m hoping to come back to all AMD with a full upgrade at one point.
Damn Microsoft creeped me out with all that spyware so they drove me off, I was perfectly happy on Windows up until the telemetry updates in 7. I’ve gotten used to Linux simply because that’s the only viable alternative for personal computing. Gaming doesn’t reveal that much personal information as compared to day-to-day personal use.
I don’t prefer either Linux or Windows for gaming, I prefer the one that gives me the most FPS. (Perhaps outdated) experience is that it’s Windows systems by a large margin. And they also have support for a wider ranger of peripherals.
And if your only use case is gaming, you should use Windows because that’s the platform game developers target. Linux will behave differently (sometimes better, sometimes worse), and you’re unlikely to get support if there’s a Linux-specific issue, and multiplayer gaming still isn’t great on Linux due to anticheat either not working on Linux or anti-cheat flagging Linux users on accident.
That being said, if gaming was truly the only thing I used a computer for, I’d switch to console gaming. The experience is usually smoother since devs only need to target a handful of hardware configurations.
However, if gaming is secondary to the main purpose of the computer, Linux is a great option if it fits your workflow. It fits mine and I’ve been on Linux for ~15 years now, and I actually switched to Linux knowing that gaming wasn’t really going to be a thing (I played a handful of games, like Minecraft and Factorio, but mostly used it for school+work).
I think Linux is great, but don’t switch just because of some benchmarks, switch because it fits with your overall computer use cases.
I doubt it’s as noticeable as you make it out to be. I use the default kernel shipped with OpenSUSE Tumbleweed and the system is acceptably responsive while under load, with the main exception being low memory situations (i.e. heavy swap usage). But I expect the Zen scheduler to have similar issues.
Then again, I probably have more tolerance for poor responsiveness because I rarely run my system to its limits (unless compiling) and rarely interact with other apps while playing games.
It’s only been noticeable while compiling and looking at animations. It might also just be placebo or I’m misremembering since it’s been many months since I “tested” it.
It wasn’t my intention to make it sound like it’s a giant improvement. It’s marginal but if it’s simple to install I’d say go for it.
Nice. So I just need to update the mesa version whenever it arrives, and it should be faster now? Also, are there any disadvantages to using amdvlk instead of mesa?
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.
I remember the first time I managed to run Doom outside of the usual “point-and-click mentality” on ZorinOS. It felt like I went back to the DOS era where I had to do the good ol’ SETUP.EXE to setup the soundcard, etc. But yeah – you’ve got to let go your “do it for me” mentality and start to get used to do the stuff yourself. But it gets easier when you get used to it.
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