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[–] DeveloperKai 5 points 1 year ago (80 children)

I wanna use Linux, but gaming is stopping me.

[–] [email protected] 48 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It depends on the game, but Steam proton is pretty good.

This site is incredibly helpful.

[–] DeveloperKai 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This, I did not know about, I see that for honor is definitely compatible, so it's looking like it might work out.

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago

The state of gaming on Linux isn't perfect, but it is very, very good right now. The best it has ever been by far. The Steam Deck uses Linux, and Valve has their people dumping new features upstream into Linux for everyone to use.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Isn’t even the steam deck Linux nowadays?

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago

It is, and there are still some games that are borked, but most are quite good.

This site is great for finding out what games work. https://www.protondb.com/

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

Well, with an immutable filesystem and a customized kernel and mesa stack with backports from newer versions... so, really just an Arch-based distro in its own right

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (3 children)

One solution is just to stop gaming and start playing around with computers for fun.

[–] NightAuthor 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Gaming is what got me into playing around with computers for fun.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Same. My mom refused to buy me a console, so I got creative with finding free games, then mods, then roms, then reading the Dolphin dev blog and trying to decypher it, and now I'm a senior software engineer

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

YES! Someone else fcking gets it!

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[–] DeveloperKai 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Why is this getting down voted??

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

Probably because gaming on Linux is in very good state right now. If you're a casual OS user I still wouldn't recommend it but if you know what you do, you'll barely need Windows.

[–] AVengefulAxolotl 3 points 1 year ago

I could play Witchfire on day one, an early access game on the Epic Game Store, so probably the only games you cant play now are the online ones, but there are some you can.

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

I started gaming after I switched to Linux, so all of my gaming is Linux-based. It helps that I use emulators for everything, and Linux has excellent emulators. When I built my new computer and discovered I could emulate a Switch at a playable speed, it floored me.

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

But but but Wine Is Not an Emulator

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (9 children)

I wanna use Linux, but last time I tried I had so many issues that it made it almost impossible to be productive. There are so many possible variations of a setup that trying to find answers either resulted in incorrect or just downright combative responses

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