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Aceticon ,

I’ve switched for over a month now and did had problems with 2 games out of the 6 I tried so far (all of which were both games installed via Lutris and I found solutions to fix them both).

Funnily enough one of the games I got via Steam which did not work before in Windows now works in Linux. Further, I was running Windows 7 (yeah, I know it was a bad idea security wise), so there are AAA games whose minimum Windows version is 10 which I now can play in Linux that I couldn’t before in the Windows I was using.

All in all it has been great and I have no intention whatsoever to go back to Windows.

Even if there are games that won’t work in Linux, there are so many good games out there that can entertain me for hundreds of hours that I won’t miss the handful I cannot get to run in Linux.

hperrin ,

I have a couple games that were Windows 98 and Windows XP games that don’t work on Windows 10/11, but work just fine on Linux. It’s funny that Linux is sometimes better at running Windows games than Windows is.

Aceticon ,

Wine and Proton manage to be better at both forward and backward compatibility with Windows than actual Windows.

Swedneck ,
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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!!

lavafroth ,

Great! I tend to avoid DRM’d games by buying from GOG. Don’t use their launcher, lutris tends to have auto install scripts for games.

NafiTheBear ,
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I’m one of the guys on the couch.

Mazoku ,

Based

webghost0101 ,

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 ,

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 ,

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

NegativeLookBehind ,
@NegativeLookBehind@lemmy.world avatar

I run Linux on my gaming machine and it fucking dominates

Zetta ,

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

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

Resol ,
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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 ,
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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.

nexussapphire ,

Just switch over, if you like! I want you to feel comfortable with the decision and feel motivated to give it a good shot.

If it’s not for you, I understand. Maybe in a few years it’ll be a better fit but it’s no rush.

lolcatnip ,

Careful, comments like they might get you banned from Lemmy.

nexussapphire ,

It’s a dumb reason to get banned from an instance. I don’t see anything wrong with making an observation other programmers have already made. Thanks for the warning though.

lolcatnip ,

It was a joke about how fanatical people are about Linux on Lemmy.

nexussapphire , (edited )

I know, I’m one of them😆🤙. I try not to be annoying though, hope you didn’t take it wrong. Edit: sorry, though this was a comment on my response to someone being weird about rust.

If anyone truly cares about the community and want people to switch. They need to be understanding and willing to accept the fact some people have good reasons not to switch. Being pushy or insulting isn’t going to win them back and will most likely sour their perception of linux.

I remember how much hate I got for using an Nvidia graphics card on linux. I also remember helping other people get Linux running on their graphics cards. There were so many toxic individuals that would scold new users for “supporting Nvidia, that evil company” despite the fact most people switching from windows probably already owned that Nvidia card.

There were also others that long since given up because of all the hate they received. I want that to be uncommon and thankfully it seems to be more the case nowadays.

Ibaudia ,
@Ibaudia@lemmy.world avatar

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.

Mwa ,
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Same most of the games that dont work on linux/proton are pretty bad and boring anyways

PerogiBoi ,
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VR though :(

dillekant ,

I don’t know if Linux Gaming would exist if it wasn’t for OpenGL and Carmack using it for Quake.

Unfortunately we are in the Glide era of VR. OpenXR exists, but someone needs to create a killer app which uses it.

LordKitsuna ,

Works on plasma Wayland. At least for the index with steamvr

PerogiBoi ,
@PerogiBoi@lemmy.ca avatar

Any issues setting it up? I keep reading horror stories

KaninchenSpeed ,

The Quest 2 works with alvr on plasma wayland too.

coffee_with_cream ,

Bazzite is awesome 😎

Unreliable ,

Seconded.

Duamerthrax ,

There are a few dozen esport and AAA games tthat will never work because of their anti-cheat engines.

I see this as an absolute win.

bigboig , (edited )

Mfing world of goo 2 offers an appimage file instead of a flatpack, so I have to monkey around with the console or lutris to get it to work on steamdeck.

I just want to play my puzzle game, not puzzle how to play my game. Ah well

_____ ,

The sheer power of instantly switching desktops in Linux makes the windows user afraid.

But I have seen a lot of old windows heads look at Linux for gaming performance where Microsoft is failing them with bloatware such as copilot.

I don’t think the rootkit anti cheats would ever work to a level windows games developers want it to on Linux though.

Halosheep ,

Anticheat will have to just come from other methods that people will also hate.

Imagine, for example, if they required a form of government issued ID and the account was tied to you specifically. Despite privacy nightmare that it is (plus other issues, especially around globally accessed games), bans would have significantly larger impact if they’re tied to a real-world identity.

_____ ,

Yeah, AC overall is very anti OSS philosophies

cmnybo ,

It doesn’t matter to me if games that use rootkit anticheat don’t work on Linux. I would never install anything that requires a rootkit.

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