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What's the best Linux alternative to Windows for gaming (beehaw.org)

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

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I use Windows for my desktop PC but I'm also a fan of Linux for work and programming.

I'm not really liking the direction windows is taking so it would be nice to explore some other alternatives. I mostly use my desktop for gaming, so I'm interested in how people are gaming on Linux

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Dropping in here to ask a side question

My biggest concerns with finally making the switch to gaming in a linux distro are

Will the biggest releases generally be guaranteed to (eventually) work in wine?
~~For game with multiplayer that use invasive anti-cheat third party systems, what's the hit/miss rate of people getting unfairly banned because they're running it on linux? I'm generally playing multiplayer in FFXIV and WoW these days so I'm sure that's fine, but I don't want to worry about being VAC banned down the line for playing some non-AAA game with a trigger happy cheat detection software.~~
~~Follow up for this last question - if that's just a reality of gaming on linux, what anti-cheat softwares do I have to be weary of?~~

I found such a list

Bless this community.

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

I think a guarantee that they will eventually work would be difficult, but Proton has really changed the game. I'm using a Steam Deck (SteamOS, but there's Chimera.....more on that below) and there's a lot of things, including recent AAA games, that work really well with it.

Chimera supports FSR and seems to be the biggest alternative out of the box to SteamOS. A lot of game companies are making sure they can run with at least 30fps on Steam Deck because it's becoming a pretty good revenue stream for them which benefits everyone running Linux.

Protondb.com has a great list of what is currently working.

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

Spent a lot of the day thinking in the back of my mind what games on game pass ultimate I want to sit down and play at the computer, and what I came up with basically are games that would be perfectly playable via the ultimate cloud option on linux since the game pass games can't run without UWP so far on linux. Anything that would have such a degraded experience I could just play on the xbox one. Combine this with the results from running my library through prontonDB and this seems like a realistic possiblity!

I may be sold on finally ditching windows as the last great bastion of staying on windows for gaming falls, ironically, with the rise of microsoft introducing cloud gaming ^^

Now I need to see about using some vacation time to port everything over and tweak the new OS...

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

To your first point, in my experience, most single player games end up perfectly playable. For multiplayer it is entirely dependant on what sort of anti-cheat they use.