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Y'all, for real, I was on Windows for gaming. Gaming on Linux really does seem to "just work" now. I'm using CachyOS. It just works. The only tweak I had to do was to tell Helldivers 2 to use the vanilla version of Proton instead of Cachy's version. So literally if I was on a more traditional distribution I'd have to do less.
All the games I play regularly worked with zero configuration. I can count on one hand the number of times I had to tweak something to get a game running. Gaming on Linux is amazing these days.
However, there are a few popular games still broken. I don't do online competitive, so this doesn't impact me.
I was trying or Linux for gaming... But I found using mods too difficult or annoying and switched back to Windows. That's only for my gaming machine though...I use a Linux laptop for everything else
What games?
SteamTinkerLaunch let's you easily launch VMM and MO2 for basically any game, for anything else it should usually be as simple as finding the Linux path for your game and moving files by hand
I play all kinds of old games, Japanese games that require patching, and use mods. That technical stuff is why I haven't tried Linux yet, because things are already irksome with a well-known OS. I don't want to imagine what edge cases on Linux could be.
Unfortunately, I might be forced to make the switch if Microsoft decides to ally with the Trump Regime. π±
Yep. Used to be cautious about it working, having to check protondb before buying/installing/playing and what have you..
but I havent done that in a year.
I just install a game, even a new game, and it just works. No thought, no concern,no issues.. OS related, that is, it obviously doesnt make buggy games not buggy, so buggy games are still buggy, but thats the games fault, and you'd run into that regardless of the OS.. Like Cities Skylines 2 bad performance, or modded minecraft crashing due to mod things.
Want to be specific so someone doesnt follow my post with a predictable "WELL I PLAYED insert known buggy game AND IT STILL CRASHED AND I DIDNT GET A BLOWJOB FROM BETTY WHITES GHOST OR ANYTHING, YOU LIAR!"
My aunt bought some Wal-Mart $200 Lenovo like 8 years ago. It ran Windows 10 like I run a mile...eventually. I put what upgrades into it I could (added some RAM and an SSD) and threw Linux Mint on it, perfectly usable.
Last week: "Hey, can my Linux computer run The Sims? They just released a bundle with Sims 1 and 2." I got to looking at it, "no info" on steam deck compatibility, system requirements require a newer GPU than her laptop, like they call out Intel HD 620 and she's got Intel HD 520.
Proton will almost certainly run it, but that machine's iGPU won't. I got to blame the hardware and not Linux!
saving her some headaches, I think.
I've heard the rereleases are very buggy and crashy.
EA? Being lazy and publishing a subpar product? In this timeline? You don't say.
my favorite thing is that you can only get the proper UI scale and zoom level at 1440p in the rerelease Sims 1.
Its just mindboggling.
I was absolutely amazed that the new Overwatch game (Marvel Rivals) ran out of the box with GloriousEggroll v23. Kind of a wild sentence.
Same! I thought I wouldn't be able to play any competitive PVP games!