Yesterday I went and got a pcie nvme adapter (my two motherboard slots are taken up by windows+gaming drive). Added in a 2TB to the adapter and installed Garuda linux - based on Arch.
So far it has been great. A couple little things popped up, like adding panels to the other two side monitors. But quick searches online and everything has been working very smoothly. I even put chrome on for work stuff so I don’t have to use the company-given laptop. – Side note, if anyone knows of a way to container that chrome install so work stuff is super separate, please share. –
Like another comment mentioned, some games won’t work either because of anti-cheat that isn’t enabled for linux, or just not good proton support. But for the most part I can still play 90% of the games I normally do: DRG, CS2, Darktide, battlebit, etc. Hopefully the times I need to reboot into windows are rare, because this has been a great experience. Way better than years ago when I tried to make the switch but gaming support just wasn’t where I needed it.
What cope. I still run into countless compatibility issues which bars Linux from daily use for me. Stop trying to downplay proton compatibility, it just makes your arguments appear disingenuous.
I would fully switch over to Linux in a heartbeat if there was no compatibility problems.
first, file a report. so devs are aware of your problem.
second, i feel you. i’m in the same situation. if i switch to linux right now, my stream deck will lose features and i probably on’t be able to use my steering wheel anymore. plus i really struggled to install fusion360.
I have a couple games that don’t work, but yeah, these days it’s very rare for something not to work. I don’t bother checking ProtonDB any more to see if there are any known issues before buying something.
The only one I care about much that doesn’t work is https://command.matrixgames.com; there’s not really much by way of competition out there for it.
One other benefit – I don’t know if this is still an issue on Windows – but there are historically a couple of fullscreen games that dealt very poorly on Windows with being alt-tabbed out of, because the game needs to restore context when things come back, and some games didn’t do well at that. Steam doesn’t explicitly expose this as a feature in the UI, but you can just fire up winecfg on a Proton prefix and then ask that a virtual desktop be emulated for that prefix, and the application will be unaware of it if you go switch to another workspace or something. As far as it knows, it’s still in the front and running fullscreen.
Just switched to the beta on Arch and its definitely coming along. SDR content still looks washed out, but its a lot better on my monitor (LG 27UK600) than on windows.
For me I have to change SDR Color Intensity to 100% for the colors to be close to SDR. Although because you can’t use ICC profiles with HDR and my monitor is wide gamut the colors are wrong. But as far as I can tell it looks very close, if not identical to running SDR without my ICC profile enabled.
I’ve been so eager to try it out, but also a bit hesitant to make the jump. I should check out the compatibility of the main games I play. Mostly worried that EA or something might screw me over on certain games. And I really CBA to run a dual boot setup.
For some reason I still feel like a windows update is capable of fucking it up by messing with bios settings or something along the lines.
I’ve been trying to help my roommate get games working on pop_os via proton / lutris because his windows install broke, and we just cannot make any game work. Games that say they should work on protondb just won’t start no matter what we try. I wish I knew what we were doing wrong. Would love to play Baldurs Gate 3 with him again.
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.
Welcome to the club! Linux gaming is light years better than it’s ever been before. I don’t miss Windows at all and 95% of games I try seem to work now with only modest tinkering at most. Tell your friends!
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!" 🐧🐧🐧🐧🐧
The display I bought a few years ago doesn’t support HDR because I didn’t think it’d be supported so soon. The Steam Deck and the money put into developing the Linux desktop was really unexpected to me.
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