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Linux overtakes Mac as Steam's second-most used OS, and it's all thanks to the Steam Deck (www.pcgamer.com)

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[-] Veraticus@lib.lgbt 71 points 2 years ago

I went full Linux a few months ago and haven't looked back. Steam has superb support for basically everything I could want to play -- in some cases I feel like Linux actually performs better than Windows on the same hardware. I really appreciate the huge investment Valve made into making Linux gaming work.

[-] six_arm_spider_man@reddthat.com 20 points 2 years ago

I'm in the process of swapping over now. Certainly some speed bumps after many years of Windows, but it's been kind of fun.

There are a few games I've hit that I can't play, but that why I'm dual booting for the near future. Linux as the daily driver and then back to windows when I have to.

[-] Veraticus@lib.lgbt 6 points 2 years ago

Yeah a lot of games with really strong anti-piracy just don't work at all. I was shocked that Roblox was one of the few ones that just wouldn't make the jump, for example, Grapejuice notwithstanding.

[-] HumanPerson@sh.itjust.works 12 points 2 years ago

Pro tip: You don’t have to deal with anti piracy if you pirate it.

[-] SaltyIceteaMaker@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 years ago

Oh the beautiful irony

[-] itsaerosphere@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 years ago

Except Roblox is currently working on providing unofficial support to Wine (and by extension Roblox). See the post from one of their employee: https://devforum.roblox.com/t/why-did-roblox-stop-supporting-linux-users (Need to be logged in)

[-] Kizaing@lemmy.kizaing.ca 5 points 2 years ago

I did the same, I've used Linux off and on since like 2010 but this year is the first time where everything I want to do just works. I have a windows drive available just in case but so far I haven't had to use it

[-] LukeMedia@lemm.ee 3 points 2 years ago

Only thing so far is other game launchers, and VR. I'm still dual booting, especially for VR.

[-] SaltyIceteaMaker@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago

For other game launchers use bottles

[-] LukeMedia@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago

I'm not well versed with bottles, is there a good resource for that?

[-] SaltyIceteaMaker@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago

I honestly just watched a youtube tutorial

You probably can look into the arch wiki although if you don't use arch there may be some differences.

If i find the youtube video i will edit this comment and link it [here]

Alternatively here is how i did it:

•Install the bottles application (from the aur) •install proton ge runner •Create a new bottle •select proton ge as runner for said bottle •Download launcher installer (battle.net in my case) •run application > battlenetinstaller.exe (or however it's named)

[-] LukeMedia@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago

Using Fedora, I will look for some YouTube guides. Thanks for the info!

[-] GlitchyDigiBun@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 years ago

I've always wondered how good proton is when the hardware is less standardized than a console/pc hybrid. Can you really just slap in any modern x86 CPU and Nvidia Card and just go? How's driver handling? It's been years since I've used a linux desktop environment, so I'd be coming to it with navigational/file-handling skills in terminal alone.

[-] xuniL@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 2 years ago

Should work out of the box, if you want a better experience I would definitely recommend an AMD gpu. Nvidia drivers are a huge mess on Linux since Nvidia actively refuses to support Linux

[-] ulu_mulu@lemm.ee 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

What? You just have to install the proprietary drivers, they work perfectly fine. I get that if you don't want any proprietary stuff NDIVIA is not the best experience (opensource drivers are not good because of lack of support) but I'd hardly call that a huge mess.

[-] xuniL@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 years ago

If you want to use Wayland without having to tweak lots of things or use weird hacks then Nvidia isn't an option.

[-] Chewy7324@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Not the open source nvidia drivers. They don't support reclocking so there's no way to get any useable results for gaming (and if not for gaming, why use an nvidia gpu anyway? Compute isn't supported in nouveau anyway).

Edit: typo

[-] xuniL@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 years ago

I was talking about Mesa not the Nvidia open source drivers. I should have worded it differently

[-] entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 2 years ago

The open source Nvidia drivers are part of Mesa. You were talking about RADV and RadeonSI, the open-source AMD drivers in Mesa.

[-] miss_brainfart@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

They're an extra thing you have to install, which makes them less plug and play than AMD, but a huge mess? It's far from being that bad nowadays

[-] jerkface@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 years ago

Not an extra thing that you have to install, an extra thing that you have to maintain, forever, instead of just letting the OS do it for you. Have you never borked your main machine with a flubbed driver update? Or found that, uh oh, you broke CUDA last time you upgraded and didn't notice until you tried to do some work?

[-] miss_brainfart@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

No, I didn't. I installed the driver once, same with cuda, and I let the system updates to the rest.

And guess what, it actually does just work™

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