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PeriodicallyPedantic ,

I’m thinking about getting a handheld and putting Chimera or Bazzite on it. It’s gonna replace my main gaming PC (so it needs to support egpu) once it bites it.

Zetta ,

I would never install a rootkit on my system to play a video game anyway.

Strawberry ,

I’m quite sad as a VR and HDR gamer because I really do want to switch. I have a steam deck, it works great for flatscreen gaming, but general HDR support across the linux ecosystem is apparently lacking and my headset manufacturer told me that they don’t support linux and couldn’t until the VR ecosystem they rely on supports it

vinyl ,

I’m all up in that VR and sad the way it’s been treated.

ILikeBoobies ,

If it’s not open source then it’s an advertisement not an esport

If someone goes to host a tournament and they can’t choose the patch or modify it then it’s not an even playing field between organizers. Think like 2 people go to host on consecutive weekends and there’s a patch between them now the person who hosted first has an unfair advantage in game quality as the players know how to play it

Also if the studio/publisher is hosting an event it’s just an advertisement

kurap1ka ,

What? So if a sports federation changes the rules all independently organized events are disadvantaged? By that logic the Olympics are just an advertisement for the sports not a competition, as the federation usually don’t change rules 6 months prior.

ILikeBoobies ,

Nope, the leagues are allowed to have different rules

Sports are open source, for instance not every football competition has to use blue cards or a competition made a patch to use blue cards…depending how you want to view it

Rolive ,

Steam deck has entered the chat.

AbsoluteChicagoDog ,

Legit Steam Deck has me almost convinced to switch my desktop to Linux

Sabata11792 ,

It successfully convinced me to switch over.

e8d79 ,
@e8d79@discuss.tchncs.de avatar

I don’t even own one and it convinced me.

Resol ,
@Resol@lemmy.world avatar

I still rely on Windows for a few important things (namely a Club Penguin Singleplayer Client that I’m not sure works on Linux), but I absolutely will switch to Linux as soon as I’m fully ready to take the leap.

Debian seems like a nice distro (am I the only one who calls it “deebian”?)

e8d79 ,
@e8d79@discuss.tchncs.de avatar

Only way to find out is to try it. Something like Club Penguin shouldn’t give you much trouble especially if you use a launcher like Lutris.

Resol ,
@Resol@lemmy.world avatar

I heard Houdini has a Linux version. I might try that out, especially since it does have ActionScript 3 support (which Club Penguin started using in 2011)

Blisterexe ,

what’s the club penguin client called?

Resol ,
@Resol@lemmy.world avatar

It’s just CPSC. It requires a very specific version of XAMPP to be installed (the latest version won’t work).

fsxylo ,

I’m buying a new laptop to test out a Linux environment and make sure all my shit works and everything is backed up, then I’ll port it to my desktop.

orangeboats ,

The “quit having fun” meme is ironically becoming as cringey as the thing it is originally complaining about.

You will help the community more by telling non-Linux people why Linux gaming is better, and this meme is doing the exact opposite of it – “oh Linux can’t play some games, yada yada. But we are still better! Switch over!” – like what’s the logic of it?

What’s the purpose of this meme other than circlejerking?

Disclamer: I am a Linux user myself, started with Debian and is now using Arch Linux.

I will share some advantages I experienced in Linux gaming:

  1. Alt-tabbing old fullscreened games won’t mess with my monitor.
  2. The compatibility of Wine when it comes to some older games is wild. SimCity 4 actually crashed less when I played it on Linux.
  3. Better performance across the board. Granted it’s just a mere 5% difference but I will take it, why not.
Katana314 ,

Linux’s main selling point has become “It’s not Windows”. That was a boring line five years ago, but Microsoft has eagerly been trying to invent new ways to make their flagship OS worse and worse.

Emmie ,
@Emmie@lemmings.world avatar

This meme is a cringe within cringe. The original situation is unbearable and the meme itself too. Quit laughing.

SynopsisTantilize ,

I have absolutely no problem gaming on Linux. I do have a problem with Rusty’s Retirement not letting me use my desktop while the game runs though. Nothing I can do about that one.

bluewing ,

FreeDoom and KPatience forever!

TheLastOfHisName ,

Love me some FreeDoom.

bluewing ,

And you can run it on a used postage stamp! (Something, something Arch)

I remember playing Doom under DOS and being mesmerized by the game. And I still am to this very day. I morn the day I discovered my original Doom .WADs went missing.

RogueSensei ,
@RogueSensei@lemmy.world avatar

Can’t play league on linux

Actually a good thing

Swedneck ,
@Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de avatar

deep rock galactic, stardew valley, and minecraft work on linux.

what more could you possibly need?

style99 ,

Not to mention Terraria and Don’t Starve (and many more).

mariusafa ,

Project Zomboid too!!

helios ,
@helios@social.ggbox.fr avatar

There are still good options for mainstream competitive gaming. CSGO, Rocket League, Apex Legends to name a few.

I’m missing PUBG though.

Mouette ,

I found Squad as a good alternative to PUBG for slow military gameplay even tho it’s not really same concept

gmtom ,

Average Linux user when you tell them you actually like using Windows.

laughterlaughter ,

Average Linux user > average windows user.

Plus Linux doesn’t track you (depending on distro, I suppose.)

But I kid. People should use whatever the fuck they want.

fromaj_debite ,

Nobody want to use Windows actually

RememberTheApollo_ ,

Linux is great, everyone should use it! No, not you, we don’t have the software you want to use like windows. Why doesn’t everyone use Linux? It’s great!

If everyone used Linux it would be the exact same user base as windows.

CompN12 ,

Agreed, tried linux 6 months back, decided it wasn’t worth my time, will try another distro in another 6 months.

And this is from someone who installed and used mint through junior high.

Gloomy ,
@Gloomy@mander.xyz avatar

I play with Mods, unfortunately. It’s the one thing keeping me back atm.

zalgotext ,

You can mod things on Linux, it’s just slightly more of a pain because you have to usually manually place files in the right locations, since the mod managers are kinda hit or miss on Linux.

That being said, I was recently able to mod Minecraft and Valheim pretty extensively with mod managers (I forget which one for Minecraft, but I used r2modman for Valheim which worked great), and I got the Mass Effect: Legendary Edition mod manager working enough via wine that I could mod that too.

uid0gid0 ,

If you run the game under wine, you should be able to run the mods under the same wine prefix. For example I run Battletech on steam and also run the BTA 3062 mod package and it works fine.

Angry_Autist ,

No

twotonebax ,
@twotonebax@lemmy.world avatar

Made the switch this weekend :) From Win 11 to Mint 22. Haven’t run into any real issues really. I have the occasional screen tear on some videos in firefox though. Haven’t searched around enough yet to figure that out, but otherwise all good.

blindbunny ,

Sounds like you need to turn on hardware acceleration.

twotonebax ,
@twotonebax@lemmy.world avatar

Is that a per-app thing that can be done in Mint? Pretty much only get tearing in firefox when playing video, and I tried the ‘layers.acceleration.force-enabled true’ setting in about:config for firefox, but that didn’t really make a difference.

blindbunny ,

Shouldn’t have to go that far. support.mozilla.org/en-US/…/performance-settings?…

twotonebax ,
@twotonebax@lemmy.world avatar

Wow I feel stupid lol. That fixed it. Thank you :)

blindbunny ,

Don’t feel stupid you’re new to Linux. Welcome to freedom 😁🐧

zellian ,

Welcome to Linux. I run mint and had screen tearing issues as well. Turns out mint detected my monitor correctly, but it had the wrong refresh rate. Once I set that to the correct refresh rate, my screen tearing was fixed. So I suggest checking that.

twotonebax ,
@twotonebax@lemmy.world avatar

I’m thinking its either nvidia on linux being nvidia on linux, or it not liking mixed resolutions and refresh rates. But really the only noticeable tearing I get is in firefox when playing video like youtube or something.

upandatom ,

I also had screen tearing issues immediately on startup into the mint installer. Had to run the installer in safe mode to get mint going. Once mint was fully installed and rebooted to my desktop for the first time, had the same screen issues as I did with the installer not in safe mode. So mint only worked during install and only in safe mode.

Maybe our issues are similar (I’m Nvidia 1080 card), but I was never able to fix mine.

p5yk0t1km1r4ge ,
@p5yk0t1km1r4ge@lemmy.world avatar

…who actually says this, because it sounds like pretend anger to me

Abnorc ,

That’s a good recipe for popular posts anywhere on the internet. Anger gets the clicks.

pyre ,

i think it’s a joke about how much Linux users talk about Linux to people who don’t care but reversed.

p5yk0t1km1r4ge ,
@p5yk0t1km1r4ge@lemmy.world avatar

I might be taking it too literal.

Duamerthrax , (edited )

I’ve met enough Gamers™ at lan parties back in the day that I know this sort of unsolicited “advice” is realistic.

edit: People are acting like this isn’t realistic. I use to get comments like this because I was a Mac first gamer on my duel boot Mac Pro. Gamers are incredibility tribalistic. Just look at the “console wars” bs.

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