"I would like to switch to Linux, but it's just not good for gaming"
"I would like to switch to Linux, but it's just not good for gaming"
(The "Windows" slices of the pies are entirely made up by Baldur's Gate 3, which also runs well over Linux)
The issue has never been that games can't run on Linux. It has always been a simple question of "will the games I want to play run?" More than ever, that answer is yes, but if your favorite game doesn't, or if you never want to worry about "will this upcoming (online) game let me play on Linux?" then you use Windows by default.
Like, I love y'all, but the Linux gaming community on Lemmy is kinda insufferable with the straw-man "people think games can't run on Linux" argument. That's just not the issue
I won’t claim that it’s all flawless, because it really isn’t sometimes, but a lot of things just work. Both new games, and old ones, that don’t even work on windows to begin with.
My biggest two showstoppers are games like Destiny, and VR titles, that unfortunately are completely unplayable because I own a Rift S.
I still play practically everything else on Linux, and don’t see any reason to not to. I already do everything else on this os, so why would I switch
100% penguin
Funny, I've actually never played BG3 on Windows. It's always been Proton. It works flawlessly.
I was very confused because this chart didn't show up for me... then I realized that I'm 100% Linux and showing it would've been pointless.
Still, I'm very proud of it. Barring some games with arbitrary rootkit restrictions (suck my ass, Tim) and Adobe products (but Adobe can burn and die, so whatever), I've been able to completely transition to Linux.
Mine's 50/50 because I switched mid-year. Might be more soon because I just found out my steering wheel doesn't support Linux and the fan made drivers don't support force feedback. :(
Why are you using Windows for BG3? I've been using Pop!_OS and it runs perfectly.
Damn, mine also has a Windows slice this year because one of the games I was playing with my wife didn't run well enough on the Deck so we played it on her desktop. It runs on Linux, it's just that it was a bit on the heavy side for the deck so the fps were bad and her desktop was already plugged to the TV
The only game I play on Windows nowadays is Rocksmith 2014. That's because, due to the nature of the hardware, it is a bitch to setup even on Windows. Proton just isn't having any of it.
It's a mix of baby duck syndrome and conformism.
Until your obscure GPU driver said no and spend weeks trying to fix it but nothing work except getting called an idiot on stack overflow
65% Linux, 19% VR and 16% Windows on my end, glad I contributed :3
Building a machine that does everything is coming to a household near you! The rest of us, well we've been building custom gaming machines for one or two games for a long time.
The tooling is just getting better everyday. I don't think Windows gaming will ever die but I think the experience has gotten bad enough that people have begun seeking alternatives. If this wasn't true I don't think that the SteamDeck would be so successful.
With that being said, I don't tell everyone to try Linux. I do think that Linux is good for gaming but just hard to use for most gamers. I'll probably buy a steam deck OLED in March just to "do my part" even though I have far too many custom machines and not enough time to enjoy playing the games.
Not really! But it would be cool if your image somehow was related to the statement
4% on linux
Sorry but multiboxing with a compatibility layer is pure cancer, for some reason proton just keeps gobbling up resources until the clients eventually become unplayable and need to be restarted.
alt tab doesn't work for switching and also MINIMIZE ON FOCUS LOSS? fuck you linux, absolutely fuck you.
I'm waiting for the open razer project to support my mouse before I fully switch. I'd do it myself but I don't have the time these days.
I've finally decided to make a switch to Fedora, after giving up last time due to almost nothing I needed working.
I still didn't manage to get Unity working, which I unfortunately really need, and for some reason it's also not working in a Boxes VM, but I was really surprised with Steam! Not only every game I tried so far is working great (after solving some initial trouble caused by NVIDIA card), I also managed to just run the games I have pirated directly from the Windows drive, without having to reinstall them, by simply adding the .exw to Steam.
The only issue left is to solve missing cutscenes/videos, being replaced by that "TV color test" image. Has anyone managed to solve it? I've tried installing various codeks, but it didn't help.
The only thing I'm missing is Parsec, since I was pretty used to workong remotely through wake on lab and parsec, but I suppose that's solvable down the line. Oh, and everything being Electron apps, especially since i unfortunately need O365 stack for work. But its not that bad.
So far i love it, and have already set Fedora as my default boot. Only have to switch for Unity, as of now. I'll see how long it will last.
If anyones looking for a new year resolution, go give your favorite distro a try! And if you have an NVIDIA card and even after following a random guide you get stuttering or lagging text in Electron apps, as i did, try the other repository for the drivers, thats what solved it for me.
Kernel Level Anti-Cheat. If you don't understand that, then you don't know if Linux is good or bad for "gaming".
Basically everything you want to play on Linux, that is not supported by the anti-cheat kernel is screwed.
"Steam offers all these game to play on Linux" - yes, but I played them all 20 years ago.
Try playing something like Genshin Impact. You cannot, the anticheat is Windows only. (PS and consoles, it relies on anticheat mech's from the HW). They don't offer a Linux version - so you are screwed.
Does it have EAC or Battleeye? You are shit out of luck.
The Linux Desktop is ready for primetime, but not for gaming. You need a windows boot for gaming, unless you are playing Half-Life..
