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!" 🐧🐧🐧🐧🐧
Wrote some scripts that performs the switching like it’s being done on ChimeraOS & the Steam Deck. Want to release them in a repository some time, but they’re awfully hacky right now.
Want to release them in a repository some time, but they’re awfully hacky right now.
No, do it. And don’t forget to put a license on it. I’d rather have “hacky” answers to my question that I can improve on, rather than searching for how to do something and coming up with nothing.
Linux wasn’t very good for gaming in 2016 when I first tried it. Then I tried again in 2023 and only switch back because I can’t get foundry to be easy on my arch based system, so like 3 hours every other week and for the least intensive thing I run.
BOTH, That’s the beauty of it. If the fat nerds come up with some sick new thing, it eventually gets added to the corpo distro. Meanwhile the big company can liaison with hardware vendors for drivers so that the fat nerds can spin it into their niche distro (e.g. new CPU compatibility)
No it doesn’t. It’s mostly a passionate minority hyping it up, but there’s pretty much no marketing.
If any distro has “Apple level of hype and marketing,” it’s Pop!_OS or Ubuntu, because both have a large-ish company behind them actively pushing for user adoption. Your average Windows user is far more likely to have heard of either than Arch.
I have no problem with Arch or Ubuntu, I used Arch for ~5 years and Ubuntu was my first (used for 2-3 years). I’m on openSUSE Tumbleweed now though because it ticks the boxes that are most important to me.
Yes definitely look into docker. It’s a very cool piece of software. If you can find a tutorial for what you want to run try that as it can be a bit confusing if you never used docker before
Yeah I tried using it for 5 minutes back on windows. Chaotic AUR has spoiled me lol
Edit: I’m an idiot who needs to git gud. It was a file in the download zip from the website. Took me like 10 minutes to set up from there. Now I just need to import my game
Eh, it worked well for me, but I’m easy to impress. I switched to Linux before Steam on Linux was a thing, and I made a Steam account when it came to Linux back in 2013. It was a bit unstable the first couple years, but by 2016 it was quite stable. I think my first Steam purchase was in 2015 (Rocket League I think? I don’t recall), and almost everything before that was Humble Bundle keys.
When Proton was released in 2018-ish, I suddenly had a ton more options, and I started to purchase way more games.
Things are way better now, but I was ecstatic to finally have a gaming platform care about my OS.
Mine’s 50/50 because I switched mid-year. Might be more soon because I just found out my steering wheel doesn’t support Linux and the fan made drivers don’t support force feedback. :(
I don’t, but I have used Lutris before, and it kicks the crap out of Bottles. It’s real easy to use, and you can download whichever proton/wine version you like. It’s slightly less streamlined than Steam, but it’s not difficult.
You should be able to find other people’s tips online about which versions they used for these games with some searching. I’m sure you aren’t the only one.
Last time i used slim laptop for gaming it’s generate heat too much like i want to melt iceberg in north pole with it & climate activist start protesting arround me
I don’t say it’s bad but it’s not for me, in the end it’s nice for some people that need lightweight portable laptops especially if you work on long shift
A “Linux gaming laptop” is just any “gaming” laptop you install Linux on. Ideally use AMD graphics, but even NVIDIA should work fine if you set up the graphics switching properly.
Honestly though, I don’t see a point in a “gaming” laptop these days, just get a Steam Deck and a business class laptop and be done with it. My ThinkPad E495 is still going strong years later, and it might outlive my Steam Deck. I’d much rather replace a cheaper Steam Deck instead of a gaming laptop when it stops keeping up with games.
I’m saying two devices can be cheaper than one, like in my specific example of a simple laptop ($500) and a Steam Deck ($500) vs a gaming laptop ($1k+). The simple laptop will also remain viable longer than the gaming laptop since it only needs to handle simple use cases, so you’d save money over time.
If you need games that don’t work on the Steam Deck (e.g. MP games with anti-cheat), then look into the rest of the handheld PC market. You should be able to use Steam Link to play from the laptop, or just connect it to a USB hub and play on a monitor for KB+mouse usage. I rarely play MP games, handheld mode works for most games.
This keeps the laptop light and inexpensive, which is fantastic for my primary use of my laptop, to get work done on the go.
Just a thought, does the path to the games on your OS drive have a space anywhere in it? I remember a lot of old Windows games would throw a shit fit if they had a space anywhere
I’ve got one called a “mayflash adapter” that I’ve had for the better part of a decade. I think it was originally a 3rd party wii peripheral, but it has slots for 4 GC controllers and dual USB with a switch for “PC/WII”. It still works perfectly on dolphin and even steam across the various distros I’ve used over the years.
Still very impressive considering this is all run by translating the same Windows API calls into Linux ones, and then running them. There’s definitely some overhead in doing this, and yet they still beat Windows native.
I’m still not sure what he’s trying to achieve by switching. Is he having issues with pop OS? Or does he just want to try something different?
I would say anything Ubuntu based will be so similar as to not be interesting, so maybe pick something different. Nobara and Garuda are different, but I honestly don’t know what they offer to someone looking to try something new since they essentially do all the config for you. So my recommendation is one of the following:
Fedora - most nobara guides should be compatible, but it does require a little effort to get set up (not a ton, just need to install stuff)
Tumbleweed - rolling like Arch, but without the upgrade issues; it’s what I use and I think it’s solid
Mint Debian edition - should be pretty similar to pop OS since Ubuntu/pop OS is based on Debian, but perhaps different enough to be interesting
Those are all major distros and thus should have lots of help available online.
I think he wants to try something different. He was frustrated that gaming on Linux requires “so much fiddling” (the kids today truly have no idea). So he tried installing windows, and that went about as well as you could expect (I did try to warn him, but he had to see for himself). So, he’s ready to reinstall Linux, and I suggested trying a gaming distro just so he doesn’t feel like it was a total waste of time.
He can also dual boot it between two distros. I have both Linux Mint Debian for stability and Garuda for current updates that benefit gaming. I recommend installing Linux Mint first and then Garuda, and use Garuda’s boot manager, which can also be customized pretty well from the setup assistant.
edit: by setup assistant I meant a program that’s available after initial install, not during install.
Yeah, there’s a few layers to the assistant programs. I should clarify there’s a “Garuda Welcome” program that contains “Garuda Assistant”, “Gamer”, “Settings Manager”, “Network Assistant”, “Boot Options”, etc, where you’ll find various parts of setup, but the main unintuitive part is that there’s a “Setup Assistant” button at the bottom separate from all that, where it does a system update, then provides a tabbed interface for installing non-gaming related programs. You see it when it first installs, and it took me a bit to figure out how to get back to that dialog because I was looking in all the other places, and thought “Setup Assistant” was just for initial setup.
Should also clarify that not all programs are available from the welcome/assistant. There’s also Octopi which is the standard package manager, and you can install other package managers from the assistant program.
Should also add a tip that sometimes on a reboot the system may not display anything until you turn the whole thing off and on again. To fix that you go to the boot manager settings in the welcome program and add “nomodeset” to the end of kernel parameters for each linux distro. May need to repeat this after a major update that updates grub, but the param is usually still there in the boot settings program, you just have to select the distro option and click “Apply” to reenable it.
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