A few games that could support it with the flick of a switch (or quite literally a checkbox) such as Rust and Fortnite do not, but EAC itself does support Linux and quite well. VRChat uses EAC and it runs just fine (thousands of hours with it working), just as one example.
At this point, if a game doesn’t work on Linux with EAC, it is 100% pure unadulterated laziness on the company’s part. They can literally enable it and say “We officially don’t support Linux, don’t ask us for help if you play on it.”
While I don’t play Apex I have put way too much time into Battlebit Remastered which also uses EAC and I’ve never had an issue being kicked.
Other games I’ve tried with EAC are Ironsight, Killing Floor 2 and Elden Ring, and they all worked fine. Rust being the only one I had to give up after switching (tho that’s probably a good thing for my mental health)
After every patch I can play 1 match. Then I get kicked because some random file has a version mismatch. From there on the game will not let me back into the lobby screen because of version mismatches.
I’ve tried deleting the proton prefix, reinstalls on various ssds and hdds, different proton versions…
And it’s definitely an Apex issue since a ton of other EAC games work just fine for me.
The only thing that actually works reliably is booting to Windows and playing it from there for me.
I’m only surprised I don’t have 50%+ on controller vs m+kb. Idk if steam got it wrong, but I’m sure I havent used them for more than a half of my time. Although I wasn’t any inspired fot a gamepad gaming coming from competitive shooters, it feels so right with racing games, fightings and rpgs I’m enjoying rn.
Pretty happy to have 80% on Linux tho. After all these terrible stories of how games don’t work there, it’s a wonder that all I wanted, licensed or pirated, worked out of the box with only minor exclusions. If not for Adobe bastards, there’s no need to have Windows even as a virtual or dual-boot platform. And even them can be replaced with tools like Krita.
If it’s not the year of a Linux desktop, I’m sure 2025 would be.
The controller vs keyboard and mouse was messed up for me apparently, because it didn’t show up this year. And I know I spent 60+ hours using a DualSense on American and Euro Truck Simulator, plus all of my time on the Deck!
Glad to hear Linux gaming is working out for you as well! I started doing some basic gaming on Linux some years back, but I didn’t really start running it on my main gaming computer until a couple of years ago. Then this past year I decided to not boot into Windows to game unless I couldn’t do it on Linux. Then all year it worked just fine! With the push by Valve in recent years it’s made it so easy, as long as the game devs don’t throw roadblocks into it!
My only worry, as I said, are specific programs, but as long as Linux is so good, I’d be better finding workatound from there than trying to emulate windows for them.
That’s my thought on programs like that. Unless you absolutely have to run some extremely esoteric software or something from a company that just hates Linux, it’s usually going to work just fine. It was completely worthwhile to deal with learning a new workflow on a few things to get all of the benefits. I found native replacements that work just as well if not better for every program that I used, except for my music player. I can’t find anything that works quite as well as Aimp, so I just run it through Wine.
My viewpoint on a lot of things is to use what works for you. In my case, Windows didn’t cut it anymore, so I switched to what did!
If you have one, it would be somewhere on your Year in Review page on Steam. Even though it says devices, it seems to only split it by Linux/Windows/MacOS/Steam Deck. So unless you use a Steam Deck it most likely won’t be on there. I’ve used five devices including my Deck within the last year, and it only split it two ways.
My Steam Deck was on my chart at 2%. Pretty sure my VR time this year was higher than my Steam Deck time. Clearly there's some criteria it's using to decide what's shown since you see it and I don't, but I don't think it's percent playtime. Dunno--could also be that the VR games I was playing didn't trigger the VR category for whatever reason. It was mostly Beat Saber.
I don’t get the graph either but I play on Windows and Linux. But dual boot on the same machine. It must be grabbing an id off of something. Mac address or GPU or…??
Are they using vulkan natively (not dxvk through wine)? I posted about this when running the experimental vulkan support on BeamNG.drive www.beamng.com/threads/…/page-12#post-1617244. Looks to be very similar maybe?
A few weeks ago there was an update that broke Apex on Linux for a few days, but it works now. Apex has been running well on Linux for over a year now.
Damn, mine also has a Windows slice this year because one of the games I was playing with my wife didn’t run well enough on the Deck so we played it on her desktop. It runs on Linux, it’s just that it was a bit on the heavy side for the deck so the fps were bad and her desktop was already plugged to the TV
Not sure if this will fix your problem but try Wayland and see if you have the issue. I don’t know why a lot of my problems with games were fixed and it might help you.
It’s a great portable device if you have a good use case for it. I could even see it as a fairly capable primary device with some peripherals. But I’m sure you’ve heard and seen all of that before! :-)
I use it to play in bed. Last year, my split was 75% Linux, 25% Steam Deck, and this year it’s 25% Linux, 75% Steam Deck. So it grew on me quite a bit, and it’s now my primary gaming device.
Yes, in bed is the perfect spot for it! I often use it on the couch or on the back porch as well. And it’s a game changer for when I’m in bed sick too. When I’m feeling half decent I can just grab it for a bit and chase away the boredom, and then put it down just as quickly.
I don’t think I’ll be using as my primary device anytime soon, but there’s always that possibility! I like high resolution monitors and high graphics settings too well on some games!
I honestly don’t care much for graphics settings, and I mostly play older AAAs and indies anyway. Gaming isn’t the primary purpose of my computer, so my GPU is just good enough to make that pleasant (6650XT), and i can usually get decent frames on my 1440p monitor.
So yeah, the Deck is perfect for my use case, especially since I usually play with a controller on PC anyway. I still use my PC for certain games (strategy games, RDR2, and certain shooters), but it’s just really hard to beat the thing sitting on my nightstand.
It does sound like it’s perfect! I enjoy seeing what all people do with their Deck, it’s sometimes pretty impressive. I’ve definitely used mine for retro gaming before, it’s great how capable they can be.
I still haven’t gotten into emulators because there are enough other games to keep me well stocked with fun stuff to play. Maybe I’ll play with it over Christmas break.
It can be very enjoyable if you like some of the older games. I’ve always liked a lot of the SNES games for some reason, and I’m too young to be nostalgic for it! I have myself one of the original consoles and a small game collection, but sometimes it’s nice to use emulation as well.
I love older games. I only played like two games for SNES (borrowed from a friend), but we had an old NES and Sega Genesis that I have a ton of nostalgia for. I actually have a RetroPie system set up in my house (on my TV in my bedroom).
I just haven’t gotten around to configuring emulators on the Deck. I’m sure it’s not hard, I’m just incredibly lazy since I have so many other games that already work OOTB on the Deck (hundreds I haven’t played).
It’s not too hard, but it sounds like you might have some overlap with your current setup at that point. I certainly understand the too many games situation though! We’re very spoiled for choice on that.
Last year I was about 75 linux / 25 deck but this years its 100% deck. In my case the deck is much better than my laptop for gaming but its also so easy to pick up and jump into a game.
My desktop is quite a bit better than the Deck, but the Deck is good enough and more convenient, so it wins. I still play strategy games and other KB+m heavy games on the Deck, hence the 25%.
I use Linux because I like it, games are just a bonus. I’ve been Linux only before Steam came to Linux, and I’ll be here if it ever leaves. It works well for me.
And you are a champion among men but there will forever be an obnoxious minority that will never be able to cope with the fact that other people don’t share their preferences.
Eh, just ignore those people, they’re generally quite toxic. And it’s not unique to Linux users, go to any windows-specific community/forum and you’ll see similar fanboyism, they just say it from a different high horse.
My wife uses Windows, I use Linux, and I use macOS at work. They’re all fine, I just prefer Linux. I have a Windows install as well in case I need it for any reason, though I haven’t booted into it for a year or two (last time was to try to get Minecraft Bedrock set up for my kid for crossplay, but their friend ended up flaking).
I can pretty much just play the games I would normally, which fortunately doesn’t normally include any MMO or multiplayer only. I do play Star Trek Online on rare occasions, but it works just fine for me.
I’ve always been lucky in that probably 40% of my favorite PC games already have native ports or native options for play, but Proton has been pretty great out of the box for most that aren’t native. This year the only games I remember having major issues with were Uncharted Lost Legacy, and Batman Arkham Asylum. Uncharted was a glitch with water rendering crashing the game. It worked fine once I tweaked some settings and changed the Proton version, so it could have even been a game issue. Batman wouldn’t launch without a few different tweaks, but ProtonDB had some fixes.
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