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him accidentally uninstalling gnome shell in the process of installing steam was so fucking good dude

LTT has been pretty positive about linux and recommend it a lot. Although that is more thanks to Emily than Linus.

Literally what everyone tells me: I tried it 8 years ago and it sucked (used really weird distro or Ubuntu)

It can't even wun micwodowt owwice :(

That has been my experience running SteamOS on the SD and Arch on my main computer.

If it doesn’t have some trash anti cheat or weird DRM from the 2000s, it will run.

Well there is

• Vulkan (graphics API, successor to OpenGL which was used by e.g. Minecraft, CS Go i believe)
• DXVK (compatibility layer for games created with the DirectX Framework by MS)
• Lutris (game launcher for stuff you bought outside of steam, e.g. GOG, Epic, Uplay, etc.)
• Steam and maybe Proton but idk.
• the atom thing could be protondb.com, where you can look up if your game will run on linux and what fixes / commands are available

Proton is a fork of Wine. It was created by Valve and they have done amazing work getting it to support basically everything. It's made the steam deck and amazing machine.

Vuncan, DXVK, and Proton are other open source projects that either make wine more capable or more user friendly. It's still wine under the hood, though.

It's not so much Linux catching up as it is making games compatible (and in most cases run just as well as native Linux games) that weren't made for Linux in the first place. And that's pretty insane. Thank you Valve 🙏😔

Right? All of these comments are like "it's just as easy as gaming on Windows. I just have to make sure I run these specific commands in my terminal or my PC bricks, nothing runs as well as on Windows unless you have 20 years of experience with Linux, and you still need to keep a dual boot of Windows for those pesky games that aren't Linux-friendly (re: 99.9% of games). I'm so much happier on Linux and will never look back!~~please shoot me in the face now and end my pain~~ I'm so happy!"

Like whatever lies you guys need to tell yourselves lol. I'll stick with Windows until it's as easy as hitting play. Also would be nice if the UI didn't look straight out of 1995.

I daily drive Debian 12 on my desktop. In my massive library of steam games, I’ve yet to come across more than 3 that I haven’t been able to get to work, and the rest run remarkably better than on windows. Controller support has been more seamless than it was on windows, and I’ve gotten older games to work that never worked on windows 10. I’m not sure what experience you’re basing this on, maybe Optimus has some issues for laptops, but every desktop I’ve built in the last ~4 years has worked fine (and with nvidia GPUs, too)

am poor

own Alienware PC and Steam deck

Yeah... that's not what being poor is.

1. Download Nobara OS (Linux distro optimized for gaming by default)

2. Set up dual boot with both Linux/Nobara and Windows so you can boot into either.

You can just delete windows entirely later if you find yourself not using it. That's what I ended up doing after a few months of dual booting.

Its shader compilation that made elden ring at launch a better experience on linux than windows, because the windows build had a broken shader compiler causing microstutters.

So? I am using linux (arch btw) with a 3090 without problems.

I use a GTX 970, I can play most games just fine.

It's not Windows performance, Cyberpunk 2077 for instance was quite more unstable for me on Arch and it took quite a bit of tweaking to be able to launch it (it's a miracle that I can even play Cyberpunk with a 970 in both cases :P). Generally though I've had a pretty good experience, most games play out of the box with good performance, and I get to daily drive Linux finally

I have a Nvidia Tesla K80 and couldn't even set it up on Windows