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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.

coffee_with_cream ,

Bazzite is awesome 😎

bigboig ,

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

Curiousfur ,

I’m just waiting for better VR support (formerly WMR, now Quest 3), and my system (Thinkpad T15G) is Intel/Nvidia, occasionally with an Nvidia eGPU, and I’ve heard good support for that just isn’t ready yet. Linux would be great if I had a budget to build something entirely optimized for Linux, but right now it’s just not right for my system and budget.

I plan on trying it out again soon, but I just don’t have time for a new learning curve right now, even if I’m fairly tech savvy.

djsoren19 ,

What e-sports have kernel level anti-cheat? Isn’t it just the crap published by Riot? I know both CS and Dota 2 work on Linux, I’m pretty sure you can get Overwatch 2 running. You can’t exactly play Smash on a Windows PC either, but I think the other major fighting games like Tekken and Street Fighter work. Are there any other serious contenders for a major esport I’m just forgetting?

fafferlicious ,

I dunno. I’ll probably get hate for this, but it’s not ready. It’s better. But Linux isn’t a good replacement for Windows yet. I love Linux. Love the customization, the *NIX filesystem makes sense, and it’s beautiful. Also no ads in my start menu!

I want to use Linux regularly, and I tried last week. It failed. Kind of miserably.

I need to pick a distro. Mint and Pop_OS were consensus recommendations.

Try mint: Installing dual boot alongside windows was beautiful. But no internet connection, says cable is unplugged (it’s not). Realize I downloaded an earlier version (20). Get the most recent version, and problem resolved. It’s kind of odd to me that even a pretty recent version wouldn’t support my adapter, but whatever. I tried to update and install Nvidia drivers: update fails because dependencies were not installed. Okay… Why not prompt me to install them? Why make me apt-get all the dependencies by hand? I don’t expect handholding, but some things should be. If I NEED something as a pre-req for what I’m trying to do, queue it up!

Fuck it. Let me try Pop_OS, instead - that has some gaming chops, right? Dual boot was more challenging to stand up, but it all worked. Nice. Fire up game: get ~20 fps drop compared to windows (108 from 130) with the same settings. I don’t want to troubleshoot the performance hit. It should just work. I want a tool not a project.

Never mind if you want HDR support. That seems to vary by distro. Variable refresh rate also seemed to be spotty from what I read in gaming distro recommendations. ALSO, do you need UEFI support? RIP. Enjoy toggling that on and off when you have to jump back and forth between Windows and Linux. Nvidia driver support I chalk up to those arseholes only now starting to open source some things.

And I don’t care that you were able to run everything fine. You had a flawless experience: great. Love that for you. I didn’t. I’m not a computer novice - I know to Google shit and how to implement it. I remember trying to fuck around with Ubuntu back in 2002.

I’m gonna continue trying to stand up Linux for everyday use because I love Linux and I want to use it, but it’s pretty clear that even as someone that wants to use Linux. I’ve been trying to switch to Linux every few years for decades. It’s still far short of being ready for average users.

TBi ,

I hope steam can fix big picture mode with nvidia. It’s sooo slow.

bitwolf ,

That’s nvidias burdon. But I’m sure RedHat/Canonical will coach them to an ideal outcome.

_____ ,

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.

LANIK2000 ,

Personally haven’t encountered a game that wouldn’t run, so as far as I’m concerned it runs anything. I’m not going to shed any tears over Fortnite.

reev ,

It’s just too bad that Riot seems so inherently against supporting Linux. I still enjoy playing ARAMs for watching YouTube on the side and the occasional Val session. Obviously for Val I can just boot over but I do play league about daily.

Inb4 “just don’t play league, it’s bad anyway” yeah thanks, solid solution

ObsidianZed ,

Val was one of the reasons I still dual boot Win10 (plus VR gaming), but now that it released on PS5, I’d rather just relearn the game for controller.

IonAddis ,
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Weirdly enough, the only game I tried to play that didn’t run was this random Indy game. Didn’t even have fancy graphics, it was one step up from macromedia flash games

The AAA games I’ve played are fine on Linux. Baulders Gate, No Mans Sky, Fallout 76, Cyberpunk 2077, Crusader Kings III.

h3mlocke ,

I like linux but this is stoopid.

Mwa ,
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I remember seeing someone in a comments section say why bother use linux for gaming bro got destroyed by the replies lol ‎ he also called linux users ekittens 💀

laurelraven ,

Except a lot of anti cheat now supports Linux. Destiny 2 doesn’t run on Linux only because Bungie refuses to allow it, their AC supports Linux just fine now

Mwa ,
@Mwa@thelemmy.club avatar

there is also other games that dont run on linux

Roblox (sober works which is a workaround),Fortnite (Tim Sweeney hates linux from what i heard),and more

Laborer3652 ,

But the steam deck really disproves the notion that Linux can’t run these games. The companies that make them choose not to support Linux, and in that way its not really Linux’s fault that the games don’t work.

laurelraven ,

Exactly this, the community has proven it will put the effort to make it work, and a lot of things that don’t still are because the companies resist it intentionally

Mwa ,
@Mwa@thelemmy.club avatar

true but ngl linux has a low market share but its slowly growing tho

chakrila ,

see also: areweanticheatyet.com

chakrila , (edited )

am I wrong in thinking it’s as [e:/s/easy/simple] as “encrypt your drives, keep two partitions, and boot into windows when you need to play something with a kernel anticheat” ? this is what I do today for League whenever i’m in the mood for an ARAM

e: and actually you don’t even need to encrypt your drives, that’s just going beyond if you’re concerned about what the kernel anticheat might try to do

Rolder ,

For the vast majority of people, that isn’t easy at all.

chakrila , (edited )

yeah but that’s just a usability problem that a guided installer wizard could fix

e: and besides, if your solution to that issue is ‘i’d rather not play’ or ‘that’s really inconvenient’ or ‘whoa slow down buddy not everyone is a GRUB wizard’… then that’s not a compelling sell of ‘just switch over’, is it?

jbk ,

especially if all those windows dual booting experiences from over 10 years ago which is now misinformation wasn’t kept commented like every time someone brings up dual booting

uranibaba ,

It is simple but not convenient. I don’t want to dual boot. I’d rather not play the game at all if that is my only option.

CubitOom ,

It should be, but I’ve had too many issues with windows somehow updating and ruining my boot partion/grub.

If I want to run windows, I only run it on a VM with hardware passthrough or on a totally different machine since physically unseating my Linux M.2 from the motherboard is too much hassle and I don’t want to move it to a PCIe card.

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

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

atocci ,

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.

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