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Close to switching to a Linux distro full time. (beehaw.org)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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With the advances in gaming on Linux in recent years, it is so tempting to switch full time. I would absolutely love to, but I am a Game Pass Ultimate subscriber and it is where I play a lot of my games on PC. I know you can use the cloud version, but I cannot stomach streaming games in their current state, so it is a no go. A large portion of my Steam library is compatible, but anytime I have done an install I end up giving in and going back to Windows for games.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I abandoned Windows early last year and I haven't encountered any game that I couldn't get to work in Linux, and with steam it's pretty much plug and play, so as long as you don't play anything on This list you should be good imo

Anticheat is really the last great hurdle, if you play those games anyway

Well that and stuff like Photoshop, but there are alternatives

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I've heard cutscenes can be problematic on some games. Something about the SteamDeck not supporting h264 I think 🤔. Warhammer 40,000 Boltgun is an example.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

To add context Valve can't Legally add support for h264 in proton, but GE-proton is a community project not maintained by valve

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They can't legally add it at all due to licensing restrictions, or they have chosen not to pay for a license?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Honestly I don't know the details there, something about copyrighted code preventing a commercial solution? That's as far as I understand it anyway

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

On cases like that switching to GE proton would be the way to go, easy to do you just need to click around in a program called ProtonUP-QT (easily found in the distros package manager) to install it, and then change it in the games properties

A good place to look to get help on getting games to work would be Protondb