Just a speck this year, 2025 gonna be lit!
this post was submitted on 19 Dec 2024
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Probably gonna get a ton of hate, but...
I'd heard lots of pep talk about Linux being ready for gaming, so I tried Mint this year. Most of our Steam games didn't work right. Lots of Googling, really tried to make it work, got some to work, but ultimate just went back to Windows - all games work out of the box.
Instead of having 2**32 distros and compatibility shims, y'all need to get behind a common ecosystem that laymen can get aboard... if you want Linux to proliferate. Unfortunately the chatter here really backfired for me.
Which games didn't work?
My kid actually plays the games: Trailmakers and Satisfactory.
Trailmakers is bizarre, that should work OOTB with the latest proton.
The entirety of the steps on a normal machine is steam settings > compatibility > enable steam play for all other titles
and then also run other titles with the latest proton on the dropdown.
Super weird that you faced issues there, are you on nvidia? They have a lot of problems.
Oh, yup: Nvidia
Yeah nvidia sucks on linux, that's probably the entire problem you had
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_36yNWw_07g
thankfully this issue is soon to be resolved, something called nvidia open should put an end to this soon
when/if you ever decide to try again I recommend trying this, it sets up nvidia-open and everything for you (even steam) and updates fully automatically, it's basically steamos.
https://bazzite.gg/