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I want to go Linux on my main gaming system coz I like KDE and GNOME more than ugly ass Windows 11, but I just don't want to deal with compatibility crap.
i think those times are over. so i put some mint linux on any pc, install steam and then add non steam game .exe file. only setting needed is run with proton10. i have not yet found a thing that doesnt run. and it so far every time outruns windows.
As a primary Linux user, there are many cases that don't work. Many kernel level anti cheat (which I would refuse to install on windows anyway), some games have noticeable worse performance (obscure expedition 33 has low average fps and terrible dips on linux, but it's "OK" on windows for my specific hardware ).
On average, I think Linux is still better, but YMMV depending and what games your want and what HW you have.
I'm an old fart, so I don't want to play any games with kernel level anti-cheat. I've yet to encounter a game that doesn't work in Linux.
Indiana Jones and the Great Circle had some AMD driver issues early on, but I was able to tinker a short term fix until they fixed it. MachineGames' engine has always been wonky on release.
Kernel level anti cheat is the final obstacle for Linux gaming, I think. Its really the only thing that categorically does not work, so if those are the games you want to play you really are fucked.
So what games do you play?
Most just work out of the box for me without having to deal with anything
I don't think Overwatch 2 and Marvel Rivals work. Mostly coz they are online multiplayers. I also play games ranging from really old from circa late 90's to brand new games like Doom The Dark Ages. I'm sure there will be a lot of problematic ones in between as some are already problematic with Windows, let alone anything else.
Both Overwatch 2 and Marvel Rivals work out of the box. I have had no issues playing either game. Are we anti cheat yet can help you see what multiplayer games work.
The older games you play may actually work better. Many people have found that Wine fixes several of issues when running older games.
Yeah, I've seen how you have to manually install EasyAntiCheat garbage on Linux. It looked like absolute horseshit stupidity. Wouldn't want to deal with that.
I don't understand your argument. 100% of my library works under Linux. In fact based on protondb's ratings, half of them don't even require me to do anything (this is excluding titles that run native on Linux):
For the half that requires "tinkering" it literally means adding one well documented argument to the command line to make it run smoothly.
The benefits of Linux far outweigh the cons of having to suffer the shitshow that is windows.
Okay, fair enough. I actually have a sacrificial SSD in my system that I can entirely dedicate to Linux install without dealing with dual boot and I'm just gonna slap Kubuntu on there since I already use it on other systems and see how it works for games I'm currently playing (OW2, Marvel Rivals, Doom The Dark Ages and Oblivion Remaster).
EDIT: What about GOG and potentially Epic games? I mostly have games on Steam, but I have A LOT of nostalgic games on GOG and I'm pathological hoarder on Epic that I might play one day.
Heroic launcher takes care of both GOG and Epic, no worries.
I don't know kubuntu that well, just be aware that certain graphics cards will require a more bleeding edge distro. People have been swearing by Bazzite, CachyOS and Nobara lately.
I use Arch btw
Oh fuck, looks like I won't be going Linux for gaming anytime soon. Sound Blaster AE-9, almost 400€ soundcard with all the upgrades on OPAMPS that I absolutely love. Doesn't work AT ALL so I had to pair BT earbuds so I even have sound. Radeon Software. Doesn't even exist in Linux. Like, it's just not even there. Which means features like AFMF, Radeon Chill, frame limiting, all that I use in Windows for my RX 9070 XT, just doesn't exist. AT ALL. Marvel Rivals, doesn't just work "out of the box". So far this has absolutely not been a fun experience and given that soundcard situation and graphic card control panel or shall I say its lack of that's inherently "that's just how it is on Linux", yeah well, it seems this will never change. And I can blame Creative for being ass with drivers which is their unique shtick, but to not have features for my Radeon that make Radeon unique and why I love it, that's just unacceptable and makes it entirely useless.
I'll stick with Windows on this one and Linux on all my other systems where I love Linux since I don't need anything advance, it just works fine out of the box there. But for this PC, just entirely useless.
EDIT: What in the fuck is this? Steam needs fucking 5 minutes to run and it's literally stalling my entire system to a halt so that I can't do ANYTHING with it during that time. Oh, you clicked Library, lets stall for another 15 seconds for no fucking reason and I still can't see the fucking library, it's just black rectangle. I'm running a god damn 5800X3D with 64GB RAM and Kubuntu is installed on a dedicated fast SSD. This is just unacceptable.
I don't know what's going on with your steam install to take this much time to log you in, but it looks like your Linux install is left with some dangling parts.
First, we need to be clear if we're talking about Torvald's Linux vs Microsoft's Windows... or a bunch of company that don't give a fuck about you.
Sound boards, GPU and all this insane amount of hardware runs on Linux better than any Microsoft thing may ever hope to. Your issue with your sound card is not Linux... it's called "Creative".
There are way to develop sound cards and have them working on day -1 (even a day before it's release)... and way to put trick and trinkets in the binary blob without documenting anything (or, more precisely, keeping purposely hidden, since you always need source code to make binaries blob). In this case the Linux community rip and tear every detail by their own: the time took is never Linux or Linux's community but, put more plainly, just the company who took your money and said to you " oh! So you want to run this thing on your Linux install? Well, what about: fuck you! Is that OK?"
Yeah, well, AMD has great support and it doesn't even have the control panel for Linux and I can't use Radeon Chill or AFMF at all. It's just not even there. A 900€ graphic card I can't really utilize fully. I know Creative is being Creative, but this is a very high end soundcard that I wouldn't replace for anything.
The Linux install was as clean as one could get as I just installed it. As expected, I just don't have the time or nerves to deal with any of this BS. I just want to play games when I come from work and that's that. I still love Linux on all my multimedia devices all over my house that work perfectly and I wouldn't ever use Windows on those again. But for this one, I'm just gonna stick with Windows as much as I hate Microsoft's BS.
Some day in the future I might own a SteamDeck or even re-try Linux as my main OS, but that time just isn't now yet.
Older ones work usually better in Wine/Proton than on Windows.
I'm using an old 2080ti still and Bazzite has given me zero issues. PoE 2 was unplayable at first but that was more of a positive for me.