Just Switch Over

GustavoM , 20 minutes ago

“What, you don’t like retro yet proper gaming on a 1W device?”

– Me, if I were that lone guy holding a controller

atocci , 25 minutes ago

I am slowly chugging through the weird issues I have with trying to use Bazzite as my primary OS, but it will replace my Windows install soon, I can feel it. I still miss HDR, but my newest and most inconvenient issue is that Firefox just keeps crashing as soon as it launches now. No luck fixing it so far, and I installed Edge just to have a working browser.

SaharaMaleikuhm , 30 minutes ago

Elden Ring works. Crashed on me for the first time yesterday. I went to bed immediately. Thanks Elden Ring.

franklin , 14 minutes ago

Wow, that’s more stable than it was on my Windows machine. It crashed, like, 6ish times during my playthrough but this was immediately on release, so it might have gotten better since then.

driving_crooner , 56 minutes ago

Years ago I bought a ps4 controller to play in my Linux pc, but the games didn’t recognize the controller input, I had to use some program to map the keyboard to the controllers but it didn’t work well, so I installed steam and with it ir worked perfectly. Because work and college I had to stop gaming for a couple of years, and I tried again some weeks ago with Lutris, to my surprise that the controller got recognized and worked perfectly without the need for steam.

Acidbath , 1 hour ago

I used to kinda complain about this but being unable to play lol or lostark has greatly improved my life. I don’t mind being unable to play these games.

I am very grateful for proton and all of the technologies that allow me to play majority of my games. linux gaming in 2015 was painful.

BarbecueCowboy , 1 hour ago

I know this won’t work for everyone, but I just quit playing games that don’t work or even from publishers that do shitty things and there’s still plenty of games out there. There’s a lot of shovelware out there, but there’s also a lot of good stuff out there.

abfarid , 1 hour ago

I don’t think anybody ever told someone else not to use Linux when they are already using and enjoying it. This argument is often used as a defense against switching to Linux. And of course, if you just want to play your games without messing with all the bottles and Proton versions, Windows is still the way to go, especially for older games.
As a challenge I tried getting several older games to work on Steam Deck, and while it was fun for me, I like tinkering, I can totally see how it can be a huge hassle for others.

Ibaudia , 1 hour ago

Checks ProtonDB

So I’m missing out on Destiny, PUBG, CoD, Siege, Battlefield, and Lost Ark… Yeah I’m totally okay with that personally. There are thousands of other games I’d rather be playing and they all work great.

MasterNerd , 1 hour ago (edited 22 minutes ago)

To be fair there still is a lot of tinkering involved to get gaming on Linux working properly (unless you’re on the steamdeck, but even them you’ll have to tinker for anything that’s not verified). Switching proton runners, changing launch options, fighting updates. It’s definitely more than most people are willing to deal with. For me personally, I’ve had to stop updating my video drivers because Nvidia 555 causes all Proton games to crash for me.

I enjoy the experience of tinkering and troubleshooting, so I’m okay with all that, but I completely understand why most people wouldn’t want to use Linux for gaming.

Womble , 1 hour ago

I honestly cant remember the last time I bought a game and it didnt just work with no tinkering on proton. Though I am on AMD not Nvidia which makes things a lot easier.

PancakeBrock , 1 hour ago

Ive had a handfull of games that work on steam deck but had to tinker on my laptop. Cyberpunk would crash on the first splash screen and stormworks would only run on my igpu and not dedicated. But also im also using nvidia.

MasterNerd , 26 minutes ago

I guess this could also be based on the distro you use as well as your graphics card. For me, I use EndeavourOS, which is very close to base arch, so I had to do some extra setup to get proton working on it. For some reason, Proton refused to work on the Arch repo’s Steam package, so I had to use the flatpak version instead

OR3X , 19 minutes ago

I’m on Nvidia and have had the same experience as you. Everything just works.

Moghul , 28 minutes ago

Yup. I know exactly what you mean. I bought Nobody Wants to Die, which is rated platinum on protondb, and it just crashes within 1 second of startup for me. 3h of fucking around with proton versions, launch arguments, even tried lutris, nothing. The only error I could see took me to a stackoverflow thread about vga to dvi adapter issues and the fix was not relevant. My protontricks is apparently also broken which I have no idea why or when it broke.

I got it refunded, it is what it is. I’ll look into fixing my protontricks when I have more time…

my_hat_stinks , 16 minutes ago

I’m on Mint with a nvidia card, I haven’t really had to do any tweaks since I stopped trying to install games on an NTFS-formatted drive and nearly every game works perfectly out of the box. There’s a lot of very loud voices complaining about nvidia/tinkering but it’s definitely not universal; you won’t necessarily need to put in a lot of effort to get games to work on Linux.

RememberTheApollo_ , 1 hour ago

Well it’s not wrong.

I switched over my steam and epic games to my Linux install and there’s plenty of games I can’t play because of the anti-cheat or other issues. Can’t install my EA games at all.

Still made the switch and hoping things will catch up as time goes on.

Cris_Color , 1 hour ago

Are there people telling linux folks to stop enjoying linux gaming…? I say ask as a linux person

scrubbles , 1 hour ago

Maybe I’m vain, but I posted a post a couple days ago celebrating my success with Linux gaming. So many games are like here.

You know it’s not ready for VR yet. yeah I played VR for about a month 4 years ago and that was enough.

You can’t play games with anti cheat personally I don’t play many of those, but obviously if you do that will play into your decision

Anyway, people are always negative about everything, especially against things other people like

tabular , 1 hour ago

I doubt that literally is a significant concern.

When I can’t join others is when I hear I hear confusion as to why I use GNU+Linux, and disappointed I refuse to use Windows to play a certain game.

lowleveldata , 1 hour ago

It’s more about that small old indie game instead of AAA games tho

theshatterstone54 , 1 hour ago

Oh yeah. For me, it’s a Match-3 game that I stopped playing specifically because it didn’t support Linux. Too bad it’s also the best release from the franchise imo (The Treasures of Montezuma 4).

NafiTheBear , 1 hour ago

I’m one of the guys on the couch.

webghost0101 , 1 hour ago

Its not ready for VR. Thats why my vr headset is collecting dust.

The tech is cool but evidently not worth it to find motivation to go back to win.

Telorand , 1 hour ago

Maybe if you used VR Chat all the time, but there’s vfio for those cases, if needed. I just learned about it from another user, and so there’s really no need to keep Windows as your primary boot partition or even have a dual boot setup.

chronicledmonocle , 45 minutes ago

My Quest 2 has been running VR fine. ALVR’s latest update made me finally nuke my Windows partition I kept for VR.

Other than Angry Birds VR needing to have the recenter button hit after it’s first launched, so far it’s been fine for HL: Alyx, Beat Saber, Budget Cuts, and a few others I’ve tried. Literally the only workaround quirk I’ve found so far.

Fisch , 33 minutes ago

If you have a headset that works on Linux, everything works just fine. A lot of headsets are just missing the drivers.

cetvrti_magi , 1 hour ago

Linux is amazing for games thar don’t have anti-cheat and I don’t play those games. Saying that Linux gaming isn’t ready is just stupid at this point. And for emulation it might be better than Windows.