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Linux hits 4% on the desktop πŸ§πŸ“ˆ (gs.statcounter.com)
submitted 9 months ago by markus99 to c/linux_gaming
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[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (3 children)

I was running Bazzite for several months before I switched back to Windows. Unfortunately for me I have a broadcom wifi adapter, it kept disconnecting every 10-15 minutes, and that doesn't bode well for gaming. Outside of that I really enjoyed using it! At least my steamdeck counts towards usage of Linux...

Edit: also steam having to download pre-cached shaders almost every time I started up my computer was kind of annoying. I know you can disable that, but then you're leaving performance on the table iirc.

[–] filister 6 points 9 months ago (1 children)

You know you can buy a USB wifi adapter and still use Linux or at least double boot.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Ooh I know, but there's also a few games here and there where anti-cheat doesn't work on Linux. Yes I know dual-boot like you said but I'm too lazy to switch between both.

[–] mlg 2 points 8 months ago

Broadcom drivers are a PITA even with akmods or dkms

Had similar issues where card would just randomly disconnect, although for some reason never when it was under load.

Even followed the Arch wiki and tried some alternative driver modules with no luck

Luckily it was a desktop so I eventually just switched to ethernet

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

usually you need to try out a few distros to find one that works perfectly with your hardware. always test them in live usb before installing to make sure that wifi, sound, etc works correctly.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Bazzit is based on fedora atomic desktop, which unfortunately don't allow user to test before install.

OP might want to try nobara or just fedora workstation. I personally find ubuntu works across most of the hardware, but people will need to manually update the kernels to get good gaming performance.

pop_os is another good contender.