I was there for the fan wars. I was in the Tribes camp, but Quake and UT ate up plenty of time. The map mods for Duke Nukem were a big deal for a while making ridiculous stuff with inescapable pits that were only fun to play a few times.
Listened to this while i was working, it was more about ways of cheating than software tech that helps cheating. But regardless an interresting bit. Shows that if somebody will cheat they will cheat and its done more often than you think
Gamescope should solve your issues because the game won’t be able to change your desktop resolution. It basically runs the game through xwayland in a wayland compositor , which in turn runs in your xorg/i3 session.
It introduces two or so frames of latency due to forced vsync, but many people don’t notice it (or prefer it over tearing).
Another solution might be to enable wine virtual desktop, which might stop the game from changing your actual resolution. It solved some cursor issues in Overwatch a few years ago, but I might be misremembering.
Any reason why I shouldn’t just go with Debian + KDE and install Steam?
No reason to avoid Debian unless you have hardware so very new that it requires the very latest kernel to operate.
If you go with Debian Stable, you can enable Backports for a fairly recent kernel, currently 6.5.10. You could go with Testing or even Unstable if you’re addicted to upgrading as often as possible, but chances are you won’t need to.
I’m gaming on Debian Stable with Steam in a flatpak. It works great, and is blissfully low maintenance.
At some point, you’ll probably run into people claiming that Debian is bad for gaming performance because of “outdated” packages. In most cases, those people don’t know what they’re talking about. I suggest ignoring them unless they identify a specific performance issue that actually affects you.
Technically it is possible that outdated packages can decrease your performance. Some games may not work because of outdated libraries, but in most cases you should be fine.
Not here. I’ve been playing Ghostwire: Tokyo for a while now thanks to the Epic giveaway. The only issue I had was when I was setting up the wine prefix and the Denuvo DRM decided that I had installed the game enough times for today!
You’re never going to be banned from a store. Individual games with anticheat might however. Even then bans are pretty rare outside of games that are explicitly hostile towards Linux like destiny 2.
I finally plan to wipe my Windows PC and install SteamOS on it after the forced push to Windows 12. The requirement to have a connected account just to login is a complete dealbreaker for a machine that I only play games on. I don’t need OneDrive. I don’t need to be connected to Microsoft’s portals. I’ll never need to recover anything on here via the web.
RIP to the local admin account. You were awesome. Thanks for making the switch easy, Microsoft.
I think some of the text got cut off. The rest says " Congratulations, ALL of your 2023 Steam gaming was on Linux! You’ve proven Windows is unnecessary for fun and brought honor to team penguin!" 🐧🐧🐧🐧🐧
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