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Gaming on Linux is great!

I know, lame post, but I wanted to say that Linux gaming has gotten soooo much better, to the point that I honestly think my games are running better than on Windows. I’ve played so many games, but notable ones are Halo: MCC, MS Flight Sim 2020, Satisfactory, Mass Effect Legendary Edition, and right now I’m starting a full playthrough of Dragon Age.

Dragon Age is notorious even on Windows for being a pain because it’s such an old game. You have to install the 4gb patch, and even then it’s a bit rocky. Not on Linux though! I did have to install PhysX but I googled it and saw it was 2 buttons to install on Linux! Now it’s been rock solid and stable, with no crashes.

Linux gaming may have a high bar to learn, but that bar is constantly getting lower! Exciting times!

pineapplelover ,

MSFS works on linux? Through wine or what?

scrubbles OP ,
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Standard proton for me, I was honestly shocked

cyborganism ,

Welcome to the club! I’ve been gaming on nothing but Linux for a couple of months now and I’ve been able to run all my windows apps so far. I still have to test a final few applications in wine using bottles but so far everything’s worked.

I’m going full Linux in a could of weeks after I back up everything.

I’ll be installing Kubuntu.

Don’t listen to the others with their immutable distros or Arch. You’ll want stability and compatibility and nothing beats Ubuntu based distros for that. Plus it has the largest user base and great documentation and support.

semperverus ,
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I agree with the immutable bit, but Arch is literally what Valve develops against for Proton and their other services, so as far as compatibility goes it would reason to stand that as long as you are capable of actually maintaining an Arch install, you would be at most-compatible on it.

cyborganism ,

I understand, but I was talking about hardware compatibility mostly.

Ubuntu and its flavors run and works out of the box on practically anything.

semperverus ,
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I suppose that for an automatic out-of-box experience this is true and probably what most users want, but again if you’re savvy (which I recognize is not the case for most users, making Arch not viable for everyone), Arch is equally hardware-compatible and with the AUR even moreso in some cases. There is no automatic driver installer on Arch, but that’s because there is no automatic anything installer - you’re expected to research and maintain it yourself (which is excellent for learning linux by the way).

cyborganism ,

No offense. I know you don’t know me or my history so it’s okay to assume that I’m a noob. But I’m so tired of hearing that response from Arch fans.

I’ve been using Linux for 24 years. I used to love tinkering with it in the beginning when I had a lot of free time. Recompiling the kernel with the modules for my hardware and experimenting with the different window managers, running servers and having my own personal self hosted cloud before that was even a thing. But now that I work in IT, tinkering with software and cloud stuff is all I do. After a long day of work, I don’t want to tinker with my PC. I just want it to work and be easy to use.

And for everyone else out there that’s not a techie, it’s important that we can have an alternative free open source OS to Windows and MacOS that’s easy to use without any hassle, that’s stable and secure. And as far as I know, Arch doesn’t provide that. And there’s no amount of comments thatay going up change my mind about this.

People don’t want to have to learn to use their computer. They just want to use it. And I wish you Arch fans would stop trying to convince people that having a difficult to use OS is part of the Linux experience.

What’s fun for you might not be someone else’s cup of tea.

semperverus ,
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Dude I literally addressed your concern in my post by saying its not for everyone. You are deliberately choosing to ignore that part in order to fulfill your own agenda, or because you just want to be cranky about something (or maybe both). Have you had your morning coffee yet?

cyborganism ,

Ok ok. I wasn’t trying to be rude. Sorry if I came off too strong.

It’s just that I get the same almost cookie cutter response from every Arch fan in this community every time I comment something. Like your have to advertise that you use Arch and explain why.

It’s like how vegans have to tell everyone they’re vegans. (Not that I have anything against veganism. Or Arch for that matter.)

Again, no offense. This isn’t about you personally. Just something I noticed that’s becoming annoying.

Ugh. I guess I do sound like a cranky fucker.

Just do whatever you enjoy dude.

JackbyDev ,

Only with Arch do I see people talk about the lack of features as if that’s a selling point. Manually install drivers! Wow! What fun!

semperverus ,
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Its basically the difference between buying a consumer car with automatic transmission and self-driving vs putting together a kit car that has manual stick shift.

Ubuntu and fedora and the like, like the modern consumer car, just does everything for you with little hastle. But you might not know anything about how it works and have to call a mechanic to fix it.

Arch and Gentoo and the like, like kit cars, give you granular control over your system, can sometimes be a lot more powerful, is tuned to your specific needs, and most importantly: you learn. You will rarely if ever have to call the mechanic because you know how to just go in and rip and replace or tweak the faulty part.

You can obviously learn to work on your consumer car and start tuning and tweaking it, but you’re not fully in charge.

There are different usecases for different people. For the people who like Arch, installing everything yourself is a value-add, to us it means the system gets out of our way. You set it up one time and it just works.

I put together my install over 6 years ago and have had to do next to no maintenance since then with regular updates.

JackbyDev ,

There are different usecases for different people. For the people who like Arch, installing everything yourself is a value-add, to us it means the system gets out of our way. You set it up one time and it just works.

It feels very odd to describe it as “getting out of the way” when it’s actually getting in the way with its lack of features.

I’m not trying to say people shouldn’t be using or enjoying distros like Arch or Gentoo, I just find the way people talk about them peculiar.

semperverus ,
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People who talk about it like this are people who probably value a few things:

  • learning (in general)
  • self-improvement
  • deep understanding over their system
  • control over their belongings
  • trust/safety in their system

DIY distros naturally provide these things by forcing you to go through their manual install process.

Think about it like how Goku always finds ways to get stronger and better at what he does by sheer effort.

mlg ,
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Can confirm War Thunder ran significantly better on Linux (literally no idea why), and World of Warships ran much faster on ext4 on an HDD vs ntfs on an HDD.

Wizard_Pope ,
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Well war thunder has a dedicated linux version afaik. Could be it is just better optimised.

sturmblast ,

Next time I build a gaming machine it will be Linux based. 2x GPU’s and I’ll do a IOMMU passthrough to a Windows VM for any games that I still need it for. I have several machines and all but two are linux currently. My recording studio is Windows because I have too much invested in software at this point. And this rig which is my main\gaming pc. And if it wasn’t for some anticheat systems I would wipe this thing right now.

ulkesh ,
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Good luck. My experience with vfio is that it works…ish. There are a lot of compromises still, depending on what kind of setup you really want. I’ve effectively said now that if the game doesn’t work on Linux (which now, like you mentioned, is anti-cheat-related), then it’s not worth playing. Windows Recall was enough to finally break me of this “Windows safety blanket” that I’ve had for 25 years of trying to game on Linux. With Proton and Glorious Eggroll’s ge-proton, everything effectively just works. And one day, all this anti-cheat nonsense will be a thing of the past.

sturmblast ,

I’ve done it in the past. It’s always a bit of work. But I really only need it for a handful of things at the most.

GameMuse ,

Yeah Windows has been giving me the shits of years finally moves to linux a few months ago and only one issue I have for gaming is when I am playing balders gate 3 and a switch to another app while it’s running it crashes the game but yeah blown away how great it has been

MicrondeMMMMMMM ,
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Yep, all my games just work, to be honest it takes me less time to setup my gaming rig on Linux than windows, and it feels solid as hell. If I have a Linux PC I can get steam in a few seconds and start playing just like that!

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