Pleasantly surprised that Arch tops the chart. Then again, and I might be wrong about this, but to me a clear bias in the ProtonDB data is that those who submit reports to ProtonDB are usually users who are likely used to submitting bug reports and stuff, so obviously not your average “freshly migrated from Windows” gamer.
Arch is very powerful and flexible, but definitely not newbie friendly. I only made the jump after 7 years of using Ubuntu and Debian, and I still had a learning curve.
I wouldn’t say goodbye manjaro there are still plenty of users using it. But I’m happy that my distro of choice so far (endeavourOS) is also on the chart I feel like it’s a solid choice :)
I installed EndeavousOS on Feb 18, 2023, and it has given me the best gaming experience with the fewest of issues. Previously, I’ve tried Manjaro, PopOS and Tumbleweed and was met with issues early on that made running the latest AMD hardware troublesome in each, but I experienced none of that with EndeavourOS.
I'm currently on Nobara after EndeavourOS nuked itself and having the pleasure of experiencing their toxic community. I'm even considering going back to Manjaro at this point because that was still the most stable Linux experience I had. Maybe their website cert handling sucks but at least my system was running stable, for much longer at that.
I play Apex Legends, and I get way better performance in Linux. My regular squad mates were having graphical lag issues last weekend. Me on Linux, no issues. 120+fps
Yeah. It’s not kernel level like it is with Fortnite and Destiny. Works great on Linux and Steam Deck.
Edit: a tip if you take the plunge: When you launch it, it will pop up a box for “compiling vulkan shaders” with an option to skip. Do not skip it, at least not immediately. Apex has WAY more shaders than most games. In Steam settings, under downloads, I recommend enabling “shader pre-caching” as well as “allow background processing of vulkan shaders” so that ste can constantly compile shaders. It seems to make things work better “on the fly” as well. Nowadays I almost always hit skip on the shader dialogue.
Sometimes, not every time, my initial load into Apex has stuttering. This smooths out on my system after a minute or two, usually within the lobby. If it’s still happening once I am in the drop ship, I will take a late drop on my first game. Once it’s past all the shader compiling, it is buttery smooth the rest of the time. And keep in mind, this is not every time I play. Just sometimes. It’s way better than what my squaddies had last weekend.
That seems like a lot to say but I want to say it all so you don’t abandon ship because it’s choppy at first. That doesn’t last so stick it out. I haven’t had any chop or lag for weeks.
EDIT2: This is me playing on linux. ANy excuse to share this crazy win, no idea why we deserved to pull this off lol www.twitch.tv/videos/1961781842
If nothing else, ths is a good example of why youtube should continue to exist. At least it plays a video in full when I click on it, instead of playing 30 seconds or so, then pauses for eternal loading. I suppose having funding to improve infrastructure does have some practical value.
Not sure when that was supposed to happen, but I never saw it. Possibly should consider waiting to make your post until all transcoding is actually done, instead of expecting everyone to check back in a few hours.
Just finished benchmarking. Vermintide 2 is about 15% faster on Linux while Doom Eternal is about 25% faster on Windows. I will have the video up as soon as it renders. :)
PSA you can download a savegame with a city pop of 100k to check how well the game will run in later stages. By doing this you can check it and refund it if necessary.
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.
arch linux is not what i’d recommend for new users. great distro, love pacman, but ubuntu will get you there just as fast and with less headaches. manjaro is an option if you’re adamant about arch.
haven’t had good luck w/ VR with valve index, still a lot of pain points.
It wasn’t my first try, I used arch before. And I would not recommend it to anyone without prior experience or at least software engineering related background.
I bought a hybrid AMD/Nvidia laptop in 2021, installed Arch, the Nvidia dkms driver and flatpak steam and everything I wanted to play just worked. Getting gaming up and running is so much easier now thanks to valve’s work on proton.
I’m on Ubuntu 22.04 using lutris. I also have my game installed on an ext4 partition. Too many different variables there to try to make any general assumptions on why it isn’t launching for them.
Are you really curious or do you just want to hate on steam for paragraphs? Because I love FOSS too but I find your tone and post in general to be annoying and obtuse.
I’m genuinely curious about why someone would use/support Linux and then use/support Steam, and how people manage to conflate the two. I’ve already posted other paragraphs in other places complaining about Steam over the course of years so I’m alr.
Liking FOSS and the ethos behind it doesn’t at all mean you are required to be a zealot who only accepts that. Further, your claim that gaming on Linux without proton is easy is just flat out wrong.
So, why use Linux and support Steam, or use Linux and use Steam?
Because Steam offers a good service. Almost as good as “hackers”.
The other problem is game developers that want DRM and blablabla.
Anyway honestly you sound a little bit way too pathethic. Maybe one day Steam just get’s out of Linux enviroment and goes with the “Steam OS” and you will lose every game you purchesed, but i doubt it because is a gaming platform, as many platforms as possible as much money comes in.
What is good about the service that is in any way similar to Linux, is my question. The two seem explicitly opposed in my eyes besides that Steam is using and therefore contributing to some Linux related projects.
It seems akin to supporting Microsoft for their implementation of WSL. MS also makes good some good products. They also have contributed. They are still anti-thetical to what I thought most Linux users want out of a company. Steam still seems anti-thetical to what I thought most Linux users wanted out of software.
@XenoStare@ZariZari yes, but some convenience is also good. In this case, being able to play windows games, as most of them are released for that platform, on linux without messing a lot with vanilla wine is a godsend. For now, it's about getting people, game studios, etc, to notice us, even if only through the lense of the steamdeck verified badge. It's only temporary I hope, but even if not, philosophi aside for a moment, it's good that we can have more enjoyment than before.
@XenoStare@ZariZari this doesn't make us evil, nor does it make valve good, they did it because they didn't want to pay for windows licenses for all the steam decks they produce, simple as that, we're collateral benefit. Not using entirely free software isn't evil. Every moment we accuse one another of not being supporting enough, idealistic enough, etc, gives the monopolies an advantage because we're squabeling pointlessly. This is what the pollitical left wing should understand as well.
First off, welcome to the club! You’ve taken your first step into a larger world :) I was a Windows user most of my life. Switched 100% about 4 years ago and I’ve never looked back.
Lots of good advice here, make sure Timeshift is set up. It can save you from accidentally borking your system lol.
As for Distros, my favorites for new users are Linux Mint, Fedora, and Pop_OS. I currently use Linux Mint with their Cinnamon desktop on my laptop and it works great. Cinnamon is similar to a cross between Windows XP and Windows 7 and feels very familiar to navigate for a long time Windows user.
My favorite desktop environment is KDE Plasma, because you can customize it like crazy.
Use the live image editions to test on USB like other people suggested, it will save you lots of time deciding which distro and desktop environment to choose.
I recently learned about Sysrq + f to kill running processes making the computer hang. Before finding about this I had to manually restart the PC via power button. I wonder if KDE should make it easier to enable this feature considering they have something to kill processes already but it’s less powerful than Sysrq.
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