Do games play nice with Linux nowadays? Windows 11 just restarted without my consent for the last fucking time if the answer is yes
Do games play nice with Linux nowadays...
Some do, some don't.
Not if you're stupid, which you are since you use Windows 11
Pick your poison.
Works on my machine
85% of AAA does. I had issues running Wine and so everything I ran for Windows compatibility went through Proton. Unfortunately games that have a launcher/starting program (like Bethesda games) won't work with Proton because only the initial startup program will get handled by the translation. Wine I heard handles this significantly better, so I want to try running mods on New Vegas once I get my hd converted to Arch.
Take the Linux pill.
Proton is wine. Also it isn't launcher programs that are causing whatever problem you have. Kenshi for example has a launcher program, runs fine on Linux. AA2 has a launcher program on top of another launcher program which is hidden, runs fine on Linux both GEProton and normal Wine.
Whatever you're talking about is something different. Like Bethesda launcher being uniquely shit. Also from what I recall GTAV also works on Linux and that uses the Cockstar launcher, but I haven't tried it in a long time so I can't confirm.
If you have nvidia chances are you are going to suffer. Is been like a year since I had drivers that dont glitch or crash. I had to roll back to the stable version and Im stuck on it. Unreal5 games need special shit thats is not just push a button to make it work.
They say amd just works and Im planning to change if nvidia dont get their shit together.
Nvidia with 575 drivers is fine. I don't think nvidia has ever been good when it comes to drivers, but everything I've played with this driver works about as well as I expect from Nvidia based on my 20+ year history of using their shitty product.
I don't have a 5000 series card though, those might be much worse for all I know.
You probably have a different problem. Fallout 76 and Cyberpunk both run on launchers essentially and they both work.
With all the foibles of configuring various Wine flavors and components, it seems to me like there could be a huge market for prebuilt Linux desktops. Why don't most people Linux? Because it doesn't just werk, or at least you have to be ready to sacrifice a chicken or two. But if you had bespoke systems with specific hardware and shipped with specific drivers, and it was absolutely known for a fact that a noob could turn that thing on and not have to worry about the bare-metal of getting it going? I think the market share would start snowballing pretty fast. People are fucking sick of Windows, doesn't matter which strata of tech know-how you come from.
Do games play nice with Linux nowadays?
With some fiddling. I had the most Success with Mint since it's basic and tries to be as windows as possible. Steam Os is in beta but that will be better when it releases.
My experience so far has either been that it mostly justwerks* or it's completely fucked by anticheat or something and there's nothing you can do about it.
They say amd just works and Im planning to change if nvidia dont get their shit together.
*it definitely became more justwerks after I switched to AMD. You can make nvidia work but there were always these weird niggling little issues that instantly went away when I made the swap. A buddy on windows has had all kinds of driver issues on his AMD card and asked me for advice since I use linux and the same card so obviously I must have dealt with driver issues, all I could really say was
shit dude I dunno it just updates with everything else and I haven't had to think about it
I think staying with Nvidia is fine if you're just trying it out or have a specific use for the hardware, but if you see yourself sticking with it long term I think you're kind of nerfing yourself by not going AMD.
Ah, that's because you have to declare all the software that's going to chain-load in that container's config(you make a WINE prefix for the loader, and then specify that the game exe also belongs in there). I don't know why there isn't an option for automatic inheritance, or if there is one I don't know why they hid it to the point that I've never heard of it.
Not if you're stupid, which you are since you use Windows 11
It's becuase of autists like you that we have such a hard time to get users to move from windows to Linux. Most distros have step by step instructions these days that even a monkey could follow.
anticheat
We need to have a total anticheat death soon. This is legit the only reason why games shit the bed on linux.
Post your game list
Do games play nice with Linux nowadays?
Yes***.
*If you're using an Nvidia card you have to manually switch out the foss drivers for the proprietary ones to get good fps.
*You need to learn how to use wine unless you're willing to let Steam handle that for you.
*You can't play certain online games that use a specific kind of anti-cheat.
It's a bit chicken and egg I suppose.
"Anticheat/rootkit games won't work on linux!"
anyone who uses linux probably is also the sort that cares enough about their privacy that they would never install a game that has baked-in malware
And so the only people who might be able to fix it, won't.
Trany gayming thread
Pajeets with shitty PC thread
I have more on my other PC (also loonix)
it seems to me like there could be a huge market for prebuilt Linux desktops. Why don't most people Linux?
ChromeOS has been slowly eating microsoft's lunch in the normiebook sector, along with gayman handhelds increasingly leaning towards linux. I think it's pretty much as good to go as it's ever going to get for general use. The biggest hurdle of programs not supporting it because it's not widely used is going away with more attention/marketshare, and also because just about everything normies need to use is in a browser/webapp anyway.
Yes.
Every PC game I play works just fine. This wasn't the case ~4 years ago. So things have significantly improved.
The only exception is LoL which I stopped playing long before it stopped working on Linux last year (due to the shitty anti-cheat). If you want to play games which use kernel-level anti-cheat, you'll have to use nVidia GeForce Now or a similar service. Which is actually better because then you don't have to infect your PC with literal malware.
As for console games, they've always just worked fine and even performed better than on Windows in many cases.
Nah, nvidia has mostly been fine for years now. BUT they do have issues on some models since their driver support and features are inconsistent and depend on how old your GPU is.
That's because all the major/popular OEMs have actual business deals with Microsoft.
There already are Linux-only OEMs, such as System76. But they're a niche considering they're not in most tech stores and their pricing isn't competitive.
I assume Linux pre-builds will become more popular if SteamOS ever becomes a general use OS. Because other than that, OEMs can't seem to agree which distro they should ship out of the box.
Also, in order for an OEM to ship a Linux distro, that distro needs to have a tech support team of it's own. The OEM doesn't want to be responsible for your desktop bugs. That's why OEMs which have Linux devices mostly just ship with Ubuntu, as Ubuntu offers professional support even though it's probably not even in the top 5 best distros for desktop use.
a bunch of autistic retards use Windows
I'll just keep using Windows
a bunch of autistic retards use Linux
better not use Linux!
Why are you like this?
just 2 more weeks
you are so fucking pathetic and will always be.
a clickbait article from 16 years ago
look you wrote this!
Who are you quoting?
You could always just disconnect your internet since you own your games, right?
It's becuase of autists like you that we have such a hard time to get users to move from windows to Linux.
Good. I don't want subhumans shitting up my ecosystem and community. If you're too retarded to install Gentoo, you shouldn't be allowed to own a computer.
Ah. Thank you, I need to learn how to do that. If I can make that work I might finally be able to use the Real Time Corruptor emulators and corrupt vidya in Linux.
CachyOS whit lutris + downloading games from el amigos.com, free games and most games work out ot the box.
but you would need to see a video or two of how to use lutris.
PD: yar
I'm picking my poison, is bazzite good or should I just go ubuntu?
Bazzite is currently THE BEST Linux distro, don't listen to other trolls trying to recommend PopOS and CachyOS. They're unstable garbage.
It's not all or nothing but bazzite is supposed to be good
groomer distro, use arch
Tbh Bazzite and Aurora are the only usable distros.
I'm convinced that all the distro arguing in these threads is false flagging windows tards. Distro choice doesn't matter that much just pick a relatively mainstream one with a look/feel that you like.
Steam handles a lot of shit on its own, non-steam games can be hit or miss with Lutris. I'm actually kinda surprised at the things that just work through Lutris and others have slightly weirder problems. Also piracy is fucking easy unless its a steam cracked game, I haven't been able to get those working but i've also been too lazy to look up why, i'm kinda new to this whole linux thing myself
for me it's Nobara
not really. the good choices are in alphabetical order Arch (Cachy, Endeavour), Debian Sid, Fedora (Bazzite, Nobara)
I don't know about OpenSUSE it's fairly niche
I'm not convinced it isn't microsoft marketers trying to make the space seem as noisy as possible. Nobody is actually using binkybopOS (arch + wlroots something + the worlds shitties package manager) over their root distros, right?
That or Fedora, what bazzite is built off.
It kinda does. The distro presents the overall user experience. Very few distros provide a good initial and long-term experience.
Of all the mentioned ones here, only Bazzite/Aurora, followed by Nobara and Mint are usable for most people.
This is a problem for your first week and a half using linux. It's infinitely easier to just install the software you actually use rather than wrangling the giant retard suite to do what you actually want it to do.
I am guessing the most common use case is loading it up in a vm for a few minutes.
But Anon, cheap devices running Linux based OSes did in fact take over. Canonical's distributions simply lost out to Google's, and now Canonical is losing out again to Valve's distribution.