• @Mandy
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    116 months ago

    I keep hearing and seeing from seemingly everyone that Linux gaming is better basically every month, how it keeps improving and stuff (like the article here)

    But for me personally it never did in the last 5 years, whenever I try to step out if emulation and back to windows exlusove games? Its like 5 bullet Russian roulette, if it works at all and doesn’t stop working for inexlicitly no reason

    What are yall doing to actually make things work somewhat reasonable (default lutris, proton, or ge has never even renowtly worked how well for me, at all)

    • @[email protected]
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      76 months ago

      Modern Linux kernel and steam with proton, and in a few instances lutris with wine. Unless it has anticheet, it’ll play pretty well.

      • @Mandy
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        26 months ago

        what black magic are you using to make them work

        • @[email protected]
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          86 months ago

          AMD 7600x and 6700xt, Debian 12… proton, wine, keyboard and mouse? Been using it no problem with cyberpunk and Starfield for a few months now. Play Diablo 4 and overwatch with my kids. Been gaming on Linux for almost 4 years now. It HAS come a very very long way since the steamdeck was launched though. Proton and lutris are the glue that hold it all together.

          • @Mandy
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            26 months ago

            idk what kinda glue you are thinking about, but it aint the one im seeing gtx 1660 super here and distro agnostic for me, same problems all around

            cyberpunk, a slideshow at best, tried several times and several configs diablo 4 (got it from a friend), never launched, cause battlnet never works

            • @[email protected]
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              56 months ago

              I’m convinced it’s my AMD graphics that are making things so easy for me. I have had no issues at all with their drivers. Ran arch with no issues for a few years, now Debian for a few months. Have never had an nvidia card.

              • @[email protected]
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                56 months ago

                I have been using an all AMD system for years on Linux and haven’t had any issues. Some coworkers with Nvidia graphics said it was a nightmare. So it must be the AMD drivers

            • @[email protected]
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              16 months ago

              I have over 200 hours in cyberpunk on Linux. The gog version is a little bit more work to setup the steam version. If you have it on steam, and have steam installed natively (not inside wine) it should work assuming you have the correct GPU drivers installed.

              I’ve always had weird, buggy shit with Nvidias Linux drivers. AMD is pretty great though.

              You could try an open source game like xonotic that supports Linux to test as well.

    • Cralder
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      46 months ago

      For me default proton “just works” usually. But I play a lot of indie games

    • @[email protected]
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      16 months ago

      The only issues left with Windows-Only games is their crippeling-for-purpose anti-cheat code. Anything else works better on Linux.

      So the question is whether to support those BDSM anti-cheat games, or get a better gaming experience.