I believe Steam is just showing you games that can run natively on Linux. You have to run Windows games through wine/proton like the Deck does.
I don’t actually have an anything except the Deck running Linux so I can’t help beyond that. I may even be wrong but it’s at least a place to start searching.
I always love seeing someone reach the eureka moment where they realize windows is no longer necessary. There are a few games I had to give up completely, but honestly it’s worth the sacrifice. I’m going on over a year with no windows in my home.
All games in my 300 game library show up with that option enabled. So far everything just ran with minimal tinkering (selecting a specific proton version in game settings)
I recently checked out BAR and liked it. I don’t like micro in RTS games, because I always think “a computer can do this better than I could”, so it’s nice that they’ve got good unit automations available.
It just means having to micromanage a particular unit’s actions. I like it more when I can say “patrol this area, return fire and advance a bit if necessary, but no further than this”, instead of having to flip back to those units constantly to manage them. IMO it’s more thematic anyways for a sci fi game, you’re probably going to have units with a basic AI in them in-universe.
Micro is a RTS term for how well you control your units. In starcraft for example you have the unit “stalker”, which can teleport. Professional players with very good micro can use that teleport to always teleport out a Stalker just before it would die. This means because of good micro they don’t lose their units.
The opposite is macro, which mainly talks about how good a player is in managing the game on a grander scheme like managing their resources and having an overview over the whole map
(I hope my example is still accurate it has been years, that I watched an rts game)
I would like to take this for a spin although I see two install methods, flatpak and appimage? Any recommendations here? Seems like both are on par as far as versions go
Honestly the best way to find if a distro will work for you is to just give it a go.
Theres this cool project called ventoy where you can load mutiple isos onto one usb drive to use and install diffrent distributions. Its really neat.https://ventoy.net/en/index.html
Using this, take your top 3 choices or so, load em up and take em for a spin. See what you like best.
Someone already mentioned Pop_OS which is a good option. I really like the look of KDE personally and think its nice and modern looking so a distribution like kubuntu like another comment mentioned is also good. Ubuntu is fairly user friendly having used it myself as a new linux user but i just dont like the look of gnome.
Im planning on using Fedora KDE as my main distro moving forward as it seems stable and up to date for the most part.
All that said, it really is just a matter of personal preference. Try out a bunch of stuff and see what you like. Thats what i did until i landed on fedora.
I want to switch to Linux and I would love to game on it daily, but just like so many people, software incompatibility is holding me onto Windows.
In my case, it’s Parsec that I need, because I game a lot with friends who live in other countries. And unfortunately, Steam’s remote play together feature is very broken on Linux (I remember even filing bug reports about it when I was daily driving Linux two-ish years ago.
Longtime windows and Linux user, my last several machines have all been dual-boot.
I’ve tried multiple times to get gaming to work right with Linux, whether it be Unbuntu or just plain Debian, but something always gets in the way. Graphical issues, sound issues, controller incompatibility, platform incompatibility, unable to launch game, whatever. I give up and just stick with windows and use Linux for other things.
I just installed it and it seems to work out-of-the-box for me on Ubuntu 23.10 with a AMD 7900 XTX and AMD 5800X. I’m getting around 55 fps at 3440x1440 with almost everything high beside having disabled V-Sync, DoF and Motion blur. AA set to TAA 2x.
I switched to Linux in 2008, and basically stopped gaming on PC entirely. I had Xbox, PlayStation, and Nintendo consoles to fill the gaming urge for me. Then in 2018, when Proton came out, I finally started gaming on PC again. So, I feel you!
I switched in 2007, and until Proton came out I enjoyed 11 years of the finest Linux games, like OpenArena, Tux Racer, Oolite, Battle for Wesnoth, OpenTTD, and…that’s about it.
Lots of browsing Synaptic’s “games” category and reading package descriptions like “…is an engine that can be used to…”, “…game files can be created in…” and “…aimed at providing in the future…”
Same here, I also have a Deck so if something’s still flaky on linux I have my deck attached to my TV and can play most anything there. Also enjoy desktop mode on steam via the TV as well.
Same here. Radeon open source drivers. VR is working, too (HTC). Most oft the time what I need to find out is the correct Proton Version (Took me a bit oft time to geht Cyberpunk running). Other than that no problems at all.
Yeah. Having used Linux for quite some time, I’ve watched it slowly go from being the better option for geeks and nerds to just being the better option.
One of the biggest, most useful Linux tips is:
use supported hardware
Don’t mess around forever trying to fix things that almost work. Get supported hardware instead. It’s worth it, and once it’s supported, usage is generally plug-and play - far more so than in Windows.
That aside, Linux won’t shove crap in your face, sell your data, mine your data, cause major problems for you, force you to do installations when you don’t want to (except Ubuntu’s Snap), nor will it degrade in install quality over one year to the point where you think you need a new computer.
Linux allows you to make a hardware investment, rather than driving you towards cycling out to the newest thing ASAP.
The old ThinkPads I have become media servers or home automation rigs. They sip power and chug along for years.
I built a new gaming PC almost a year ago and decided to jump into the deep end by installing only Linux. 3 reinstalls later and Linux is still the only OS installed. So far so good. :p
Especially VK_EXT_graphics_pipeline_library is interesting. This means mesa 23.1 or higher on AMD GPU’s is a must. Iirc Nvidia supports vk gpl for a year or so.
True. Recently I updated my 1050ti graphics driver on my dads windows machine and it now runs valorant at 120 FPS instead of being locked to 60 to not drop frames too often
The gpu supports gpl, but it depends on yoir distro and how Steam is installed which mesa version you have. What’s you distro release? Native package manager or flatpa?
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