I’ve finally decided to make a switch to Fedora, after giving up last time due to almost nothing I needed working.
I still didn’t manage to get Unity working, which I unfortunately really need, and for some reason it’s also not working in a Boxes VM, but I was really surprised with Steam! Not only every game I tried so far is working great (after solving some initial trouble caused by NVIDIA card), I also managed to just run the games I have pirated directly from the Windows drive, without having to reinstall them, by simply adding the .exw to Steam.
The only issue left is to solve missing cutscenes/videos, being replaced by that “TV color test” image. Has anyone managed to solve it? I’ve tried installing various codeks, but it didn’t help.
The only thing I’m missing is Parsec, since I was pretty used to workong remotely through wake on lab and parsec, but I suppose that’s solvable down the line. Oh, and everything being Electron apps, especially since i unfortunately need O365 stack for work. But its not that bad.
So far i love it, and have already set Fedora as my default boot. Only have to switch for Unity, as of now. I’ll see how long it will last.
If anyones looking for a new year resolution, go give your favorite distro a try! And if you have an NVIDIA card and even after following a random guide you get stuttering or lagging text in Electron apps, as i did, try the other repository for the drivers, thats what solved it for me.
I really can’t, for anyone who considers themselves tech savvy. At this point it isn’t “some specific apps run great and the rest is a hassle”, but the other way around: some specific apps are a hassle but the rest runs great. Sure, you should do a bit of research if your usecases are already ‘solved’, if you want to do an all-or-nothing switch. But you can also do a dual boot, if there really ends up being something that isn’t solved on linux.
I just keep getting surprised with how little people apparently care about their privacy.
I think it’s totally fair that people would want to stick with what they know and would find a new operating system intimidating. But, I think some of this push back is kind of warranted since people act like you can’t play any games on Linux or that the Steam Deck is stupid because it has Linux and isn’t compatible with absolutely every game, and I think that’s sort of misguided. An astonishing amount of stuff just works these days, and while I wouldn’t say a Windows user should switch to Linux unless they have a good reason to, I think some people might be doing themselves a disservice if they’re avoiding the Steam Deck because they think it won’t play their games (with caveats about anti-cheat and multiplayer of course!)
I totally get it, even for me, someone who is pretty tech-savy, it took around three attempts in the last three years to switch to Linux, and I’ve always given up until now.
But the issue is the reputation Linux gaming gets. I was convinced that I probably will have to dual-boot to play games, aside from a very small subset of games that may work. Every time I was trying to switch, I didn’t even get to try any games just because I kind of assumed that it’s going to be even bigger struggle than it was to get some of the tools I need to run, so I gave up.
But this time I gave steam a try, and was really surprised that so far, every game I tried running, including some with Easy Anti Cheat, I had almost zero problems, with the only outlier being the cutscenes.
Also, of course it’s not a lot easier to just use Windows and game on it, but you pay the cost of privacy and Windows stuffing ads into your face, using increasingly darker patterns to push their bullshit. So, I’m not looking for an easier way to game, but doing it to not let anyone use my habits and data out of principle. I’m already used to minor inconveniences attachted to it, such as lack of cookies so you have to relog, VPN breaking default language on sites, or some apps not working properly on my phone (GrapheneOS). It’s totally worth it for me, but it’s not for everyone.
So, my point was not to convince everyone that Linux is better for gaming. But to let people like me, who would like to try switching are afraid that they will still have to dualboot for most of the games, know that’s not really the case novadays, and that Linux is perfectly fine for gaming.
Funny thing is that the game would probably work close to perfect if the devs just switched on the linux support in EAC. Sadly, it’s just isn’t worth for the devs. Linux user pool is too small and those who would play would generate new bug reports due to unconventional setup running through a compatibility layer.
Are they using vulkan natively (not dxvk through wine)? I posted about this when running the experimental vulkan support on BeamNG.drive www.beamng.com/threads/…/page-12#post-1617244. Looks to be very similar maybe?
That’s what I did, followed a recent tutorial and installed Ubisoft Connect in desktop mode. After you’re done you can run it from the Deck as a non-Steam game.
Performance is worse than alternatives, and there are some features that work on Windows but they have said they won’t support them on Linux. So, AMD is still unrivaled on Linux.
Damn, I was hoping to migrate my last windows PC to Linux using Bazzite-nvidia. I guess I won’t. My main rig (AMD) is running Manjaro, my Homelab is on Fedora Server, but I have a 3080TI on Windows 10… damn.
I tried this specifically to get Alan Wake 2 to work (with the 3080ti) and it is a less than spectacular experience as most of the effects on the game (shadowy figures, screen distortions, Ray Tracing) do not work properly in comparison to running on windows.
In bazzite-nvidia’s defense, it does just “work” but only to the extent that the Nvidia driver works. This is still more of nvidias issue and less bazzite-nvidia. Regular Bazzite with a 5700xt worked very well.
Nice to see Slimbook here. It’s a Spanish company. I bought slimbook zero some years ago and it’s working really well. I would thinking about getting proper laptop/dekstop from them but in the end I went with Vant, another Spanish company. Vant is not as pretty but has better prices.
Had a issue with my zero just recently (motherboard battery run out), I posted on their forum and had a replay in a matter of hours with a link to disassembly video. I talked to them in Spanish but from what I see they reply in English without issues.
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