Psyhackological

Psyhackological OP , 3 days ago

Team Fortress 2

Yeah, nice recent reviews…

Psyhackological OP , 3 days ago

Terraria

True… I need to try it. Game updates to this game never die.

Psyhackological OP , 3 days ago

Rimworld

I think you can be a DRM free copy on their website too. But damn, that game is expensive with all the DLCs.

Psyhackological OP , 3 days ago

Quake 3 sourceports

you mean this?

Psyhackological OP , 3 days ago

Portal 2

Strongly agree. I also tried to play Portal Reloaded on Linux, but I had some performance and dual monitor issues.

Psyhackological OP , 3 days ago

Stardew Valley

True, also modding it with SMAPI is working on Linux.

Psyhackological OP , 3 days ago

Devil daggers

Oh, never heard of it, thanks! Almost decade old.

Psyhackological OP , 3 days ago

Xonotic

Looks great, thanks!

Psyhackological OP , 3 days ago

So it’s easy playable online? No problem finding someone to play?

Psyhackological OP , 3 days ago

The Long Dark

I didn’t know there was a Linux port, thanks!

Psyhackological OP , 3 days ago

X4

You mean X4: Foundations?

Psyhackological OP , 2 days ago

I will also add other games that I’ve played and absolutely loved them on Linux

Linux Native games that I’ve played

• Dead Cells
• Tails of Iron
• Dome Keeper
• Baba is You
• Slay the spire
• dotAGE
• Inscryption
• Spiritfarer®: Farewell Edition
• Psychonauts
• Just Shapes & Beats
• Bastion
• Tunnet

Psyhackological OP , 2 days ago

What will happen when Factorio 2.0 with the new expansion comes out. :)

www.factorio.com/blog/

Psyhackological OP , 2 days ago

You need to set up CI for the new platform, expand your build system to support the new compiler(s) and architecture(s), and have at least one person on the team that cares enough about the platform to actively maintain it. factorio.com/blog/post/fff-408

And yeah, exactly. Their game seems like their life mission, and I don’t blame them. The game is spectacular.

Psyhackological OP , 2 days ago

One of the reasons why the native Linux version is better than Proton.

Asynchronous saving

Many of you might not be aware that Factorio has support for saving your game in the background, without freezing while it does so. This feature is tucked away in the hidden settings and only works on macOS and Linux. This is one great example of taking advantage of a platform’s features to benefit the game, which would not be available to us if we simply went through Proton.

Asynchronous saving works by using the fork syscall to essentially duplicate the game. The primary instance - the one you interact with - continues playing, but the newly forked child runs the saving process then exits on completion. I have used it for many years and have never had issues, but the setting remains hidden because there are a few unsolved problems with it and it requires a significant amount of RAM to work.

I would love to promote this feature away from its hidden status in 2.0. If you are playing on Linux or macOS, please enable asynchronous saving (ctrl+alt+click Settings -> “The rest” -> non-blocking-saving) and report any issues you find. I am particularly interested in reproducing a seemingly random freeze that occurs at the end of the process. Thank you in advance!

Psyhackological OP , 2 days ago

It’s Linux superpower that some implementation from / to the OS aren’t pain in the ass.

Psyhackological OP , 2 days ago

I have 118.7 hours in the last three years, haha. I’m aiming for 100% achievements with Vanilla gameplay. Then some mods. Then maybe Factorio 2.0.

Psyhackological OP , 2 days ago (edited 2 days ago)

I see X11 and Wayland as display protocols that tell to render things on the screen, for example to Desktop Environments like Gnome or KDE Plasma. X11 wasn’t originally designed for this purpose, and its codebase is very messy and ‘hacky,’ which led to the development of Wayland.

X11	Wayland
Legacy	Modern
Many issues due to being legacy	Many issues due to being Modern
Old	New
Stable	Experimental

in short.

Psyhackological OP , 2 days ago

I know, but I had some issues on PopOS 22.04 (Nvidia) X11 with Dual Monitor setup. :c

I will probably come back to it, though.

Psyhackological OP , 2 days ago

Yeah, but I heard it’s one of the games that you need to have opened Wikipedia on the 2nd monitor.

Psyhackological OP , 2 days ago

Nice! Shame that Borderlands 3 does not have it and you need to run it through Proton. :c

Psyhackological OP , 2 days ago

OpenTTD, Dwarf Fortress, Minecraft

Let me link these, so anyone can check them out!

1. OpenTTD - amazing reviews for the free game from 14 Mar, 2004.
2. Dwarf Fortress - bought it, I have not played it yet, though. I know it got Linux port not so long ago.
3. Minecraft - I know this childhood gem, but I hate to have a Microsoft account on Linux and I know there are some launchers. Still hate to play for me single-player game with an account.

Psyhackological OP , 2 days ago

Just a small delay. 😉

Psyhackological OP , 2 days ago

Tomb Raider 2013

So much better graphics and performance with Proton.

Interesting to see. The latest Tomb Raiders also have Linux native port, like Shadow of the Tomb Raider: Definitive Edition. Maybe they neglected it back then.

Psyhackological OP , 2 days ago

So what’s the latest and greatest source to download it and play it? Could you link it here?

Psyhackological OP , 2 days ago

Oh, yeah, last time I tried it I had this issue with audio.

But you were asking for my favorite game with a native Linux port, not for the game with the best Linux port :D

Yeah, that works. 😆 Still, I was looking for the almost perfect or even better Linux port compared to Windows’s that I have never heard of.

Psyhackological OP , 2 days ago

Good to know, you encouraged me to it then! But after all of these updates, the game is huge!

Psyhackological OP , 2 days ago

Thanks for the feedback!

There are so many comments that I get rate limited. This will take a while, so I can read and answer every comment that I got.

Too many requests, try again later.

Psyhackological OP , 2 days ago

Croteams Serious Engine

Oh, nice. I didn’t know that!

Psyhackological OP , 2 days ago

Everything that is good about 90s FPS crammed into one free download.

Never played it but totally agree!

Psyhackological OP , 1 day ago

DirectX is a set of APIs for game and multimedia development on Windows, whereas X11 and Wayland are display protocols that manage how graphical applications are rendered and interact with the desktop environment. DirectX is more similar to Vulkan in terms of providing a low-level API for high-performance graphics rendering or OpenGL.

Psyhackological OP , 1 day ago

Many Rimworld I see! How many hours do you have in it on Linux?

Psyhackological OP , 1 day ago

Unreal Engine 5 seems fine, but it’s backed by Epic Games that despite Linux users. But that’s understandable. The game engine is not an easy thing to do and maintain.

Psyhackological OP , 1 day ago

And another one!

Psyhackological OP , 1 day ago

True, when Proton enabled it’s hard to tell, but you can filter it.

Psyhackological OP , 1 day ago

That’s a great curse to have.

Psyhackological OP , 1 day ago

It’s made by 2 brothers who said that is their life’s work.

Psyhackological OP , 1 day ago

UT2004

Unreal Tournament 2004? Since when has it native Linux port?

Psyhackological OP , 1 day ago

Life is Strange 1

I completed it on Windows before I knew what Linux was. I didn’t know there was a native Linux port, thanks!

Psyhackological OP , 1 day ago

Ark survival evolved

Sure, but I don’t see any native Linux port. Only Windows and macOS.

Psyhackological OP , 1 day ago

This game always amazes me with “fuck, no I cannot do that”, but after trial and error I get better, and I know I overcome my skill issues.

Psyhackological OP , 1 day ago

No Besiege fans in here>

You are! I have this game on my wishlist due to reviews and native Linux port.

Psyhackological OP , 1 day ago

From the Depths

Oh, there is a Linux port. I have never heard of this game, but it seems like some Lego game that you build voxel vehicles. How many hours do you have on Linux with this game?

Over 1000 unique components allow you to build and command voxel vehicles from the deep ocean to outer space!

Psyhackological OP , 1 day ago

So it’s a biiiig rabbit hole, then.

Well, Factorio price policy says that they will never have a discount for their game. Full price only so you’re committed.

it’s super okay at about 20/25€ once a year, maybe twice, bur if you’re late to the party it’s a whole lot of cash all at once!

Yeah, exactly.

exactly why paradox introduced a subscription for Stellaris’ DLCs at 10€/month

I didn’t even know there was such a thing. Sucks, though.

Psyhackological OP , 1 day ago

Doom

Which one because I don’t think this Doom you meant?

OpenRCT2

I tried it to work on Linux but no luck so far. :c

and Unreal Tournament

I see 2nd mention of this game. Could you link it with the Linux native port?

Psyhackological OP , 1 day ago

Rimworld!

I see many of you in the comments section. I will probably try it at some point. :)

Psyhackological OP , 1 day ago

Yeah, but the default keyboard controls suck. And I think there is somewhere in the game “every time you fall and die - it’s a progress” or something like this.

Psyhackological , 2 days ago

It is still hidden, but one of the reasons why the native Linux version is better than Proton.

Asynchronous saving

Many of you might not be aware that Factorio has support for saving your game in the background, without freezing while it does so. This feature is tucked away in the hidden settings and only works on macOS and Linux. This is one great example of taking advantage of a platform’s features to benefit the game, which would not be available to us if we simply went through Proton.

Asynchronous saving works by using the fork syscall to essentially duplicate the game. The primary instance - the one you interact with - continues playing, but the newly forked child runs the saving process then exits on completion. I have used it for many years and have never had issues, but the setting remains hidden because there are a few unsolved problems with it and it requires a significant amount of RAM to work.

I would love to promote this feature away from its hidden status in 2.0. If you are playing on Linux or macOS, please enable asynchronous saving (ctrl+alt+click Settings -> “The rest” -> non-blocking-saving) and report any issues you find. I am particularly interested in reproducing a seemingly random freeze that occurs at the end of the process. Thank you in advance!