• TXinTXe@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    I hope that gaming on linux then is as seamless as it is on windows today. Because the rest of the things that I do with my PC are already equal, but gaming is the big reason I still use windows.

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      1 year ago

      Steam has that on lock right now. No, it’s not perfect, but for most games it’s pretty much seamless.

      There are some cases where Windows is better - mod management tools are better on Windows, for instance. Anything you have outside of Steam might need another app like Lutris (or Heroic, which is great for GOG btw). And that’s not mentioning malware under the guise of “anti-cheat”.

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      1 year ago

      Gaming Linux has been seamless for 2-3 years now. I stopped checking Linux compayibility scores around 2021 because I expect everything to work now.

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      1 year ago

      Don’t know what games you are playing, but I game myself quite heavily and doing it exclusively on Linux. Steam proton has changed a lot of things for Linux gaming. Only issues are with anti cheat. So if you are playing single player you are good to go. Multiplayer can be difficult, it depends on the game. I have 200 hours on Apex in Linux.

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        1 year ago

        I switched back to windows for gaming because NVidia drivers are terrible and I had so many issues with many game that no amount of googling and debugging could fix. Linux also doesn’t have HDR support yet (it’s in the work though)

        I really prefer Linux, but I had so many non trivial issues. I know this isn’t the same experience for everyone, but considering I do gaming 95% of the time on my personal PC, I got fed up of hitting a wall for the games I wanted to play.

        I will buy an AMD gpu when I will switch so that hopefully the open sourced drivers will fix my issues.

        I still daily drive linux for work though.

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        1 year ago

        Yeah, anti-cheat/multiplayer is the biggest hurdle to go for linux gaming, as well as VR. They’re the two things that continue to hold my kids in Windows, for now. I hope that someday they’re remedied and I can move them into Linux systems for gaming, but for now, it’s just not realistic, sadly.

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          1 year ago

          A lot of anticheat actually works pretty well now, it’s super cool how much Valve continues to push Proton development forward

    • iliketurtles@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      I’ve been trying out linux gaming annually. With the steam deck out it proton has become super good. I think my gaming pc is finally going to stay on linux this time around.