Gaming On Linux Revisited …

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• Btw. if anyones wondering why CS2 wobbles in the background, that is just a fullscreen bug that can happen when the window is not in focus.

  I sometimes switch desktops to see if the recording is still going and forgot to click the window again.

  Exclusive Fullscreen is a fun thing for games nowadays.

• Bought a new laptop, came with a free Win11.. Used it for about 30 minutes and switched to Kubuntu. There were some minor problems in the first few days but overall it has been a flawless experience. Glad I didn't bother configuring dual boot. I don't play multiplayer anymore so no gaming problems for me. I actually play DOSBox games and older stuff, those work very well. I did need some very unique astronomy capture apps that don't work with Wine, and I run those about once per month at pretty much native performance (virtIO drivers) in a Win10 KVM, Tiny10 edition that I don't even have to activate.. so again, no need for dualboot. All in all, goodbye Windows forever.. at least on my personal laptop it doesn't make sense anymore.

• I can't agree gaming is good on linux. It seems my controller stops working every month and a half for seemingly no reason and I keep distro hopping for weeks until it seems to get fixed.

• Had better experience playing on linux the past 2 years than when i used windows, not perfect but just better… i don't play idiotic triple A$$ games and i don't understand why anyone does,

  NTFS journalism is just pure garbage, the system degradation with time, installing apps is archaic and the spyware preinstalled… Windows is dead for me, will never use it again for personal use, it is a waste of time to bugfix and daily drive.

  If the game uses Kernel access i will not get close to it, it's a security concern and ffs imagine installing potential Chinese spyware on your PC, i mean you do you but i will not consider you very smart… welp at least i will have more costumers that come to fix their crappy windows install.

• Anti Cheat and .NET compatibility in Linux is what stopping me from fully committing into just gaming in the platform. Hopefuly the next Bottle or further improvements with Wine can change that in the near future.

• Neither The software I use is out of box. All need slight tweaks.
  Like Electron Apps. I have set flags to get Wayland enable. The one annoy me a lot is fcitx5 with Wayland. I use (EndeavourOS, Gnome45, mutter), It can't work on most of app I use. I don't know who is responsible for it, really do NOT have the willingness to deal with such basic things. Althought I still stick to Linux now, Just complain a bit, expressing my though.

• Its amazing how good its gotten. Its been great for most single player games for years, but recently even online multiplayer is a high possibility: Apex Legends, and even Remnant II which i put dozens of hours into both on Manjaro Linux!!

• The best solution that No one is talking about is OpenGL. It's supported by Linux natively and would work without the need to fight with wine, proton of other wine variants like lutris.

• I pretty much decided to dual boot my steam deck to run both windows and steamOS. I simply have a shared partition where all my games sit. I’m about to do the same with my primary rig

• Cual es la distro para gaming que recomiendas? Tengo 8gb de ram y una rx550 4vram

• I don't relate to this at all, I play a lot of multiplayer on linux and they've been smooth except for occasional hiccups but it doesn't really matter. Titles I've been frequenting are Apex, CS2, Naraka, Lol, and Pso2 NGS, there have been no problems for me, except for nvidia drivers lel. I started around 3 months ago, since I've been keeping tabs when is the right time to migrate and it was the best decision really.

• might switch when the noticable input lag even from the native games can be resolved

• Very informative I just can't stand listening you talking.

• Gaming on Linux has been extremely viable for years. We can play nearly every game that isn’t locked by silly drm or anti-cheat. This was true when i started linux gaming in 2017, and its even more true todsy

• what linux distribution are you using ?

• After being on consoles for nearly two decades and becoming a dad over that time, multiplayer became not only annoying with schedules but I wanted to be more involved /with my family. I also feel NO accomplishment in playing multiplayer games, they go on forever with a repetition that I eventually get bored with.

  It came to the point I just wouldn't play games for weeks or months at a time, my love of gaming completely died. So I sold all my consoles because they were just collecting dust.

  Then Valve announced the Steamdeck and decided to take my wife and kids route with their Switches and get a handheld. Now I only have a Steamdeck, and my love of gaming returned ten fold! I can play portably around my family, anywhere, anytime. Instead of worrying about who is online and scheduling times, I've stuck strictly to Single player games, and I've already beaten a couple games.

  I finally feel a sense of accomplishment that multiplayer games never gave me. Instead of watching a show that goes on forever to barely (if ever) watch another series like multiplayer titles, I treat the singleplayer games like small or long movies, moving on to the next one I beat them. I'm unsure if others feel the same but there's a ton of great, unique experiences in these singleplayer games that imo stays stagnant in multiplayer.

  So if a game doesn't work on the Steamdeck because of the multiplayer, it doesn't affect me. As a father that can now play whenever I want, loving the singleplayer renaissance that multiplayer burnout never provided, the Steamdeck has been the best purchase I've made in years.

• I just wanna see some of these companies if nothing else just allow linux and stop basing things on old stereotypes. Some on linux are hackers but so are some windows and mac users. Punishing all for the few has always been stupid just like it was at school.

  Hell if nothing else just contribute to proton, wine and something like lutris/heroic to have their games work. Just stop being jerks to us, thats all i ask. I dont think thats asking too much. Esp since all the stats are likely off for those that refuse to report for privacy reasons. 😢

• lets goooo bye bye windooows

• even roblox hit us 😔

• What if even more funny is that thanks to better OS optimization and less I/O latency Linux runs games BETTER with Proton. Even without native support it does it's job better. I feel frustrated when thinking about this. Linux is so cool but devs just don't want to support it.

• Why you need gaming on linux in the first place?

• I've recently retaken the plunge into Linux gaming (soon approaching a month now), completely abandoning Windows all together. I distro hopped until I found out about Nobara. Now I can't see myself use anything else but. I do very little multiplayer gaming (MMOs mostly), so this switch wasn't too hard of a choice.

  It's been a fun and interesting experience.

• lol I made it into the video in the protondb section!

• Seems like Destiny 2 is the only thing keeping a lot on people from ditching Windows these days.

• the reason linux gaming will never be popular, is cuz u cant pirate them on linux

• I really want to stay on Linux but my only thing holding me back is Discord (Due to slow down/screen sharing being bad unless there some way to fix this i wasn't aware of), all my friends are on it and I use it enough to where staying Windows is just better for this situation. But I'm really happy with how gaming is evolving with Linux!

• Cool video! I might be nitpicking, but I think that you do way too many zooms on your face.

• Anticheat games are the only problem now for me 😢

• I play Wow, SW:TOR, and Balder's Gate 3 on Linux just fine with an AMD 6700XT.

• im legit laughing right now. we have the same exact plan for final shape destiny 2 😂😂😂

• There is a private server I've been playing on but on Linux it gives an error the game is Strife Tera if someone can fix the error I'd fully switch to Linux

• First rule of gaming don’t buy games from ea they are douche bags. You’re going to end up regretting it one way or another so just don’t. As for Linux gaming… it’s pretty good as long as you are married to steam and have an amd graphics card. They just don’t have nvidia down yet and as someone who runs arch full time using nvidia it’s been rough but getting better… sort of. I never thought that the Linux crowd would get it right right off the bat in a week or anything but unless valve is involved nothing really seems to work for someone who has an nvidia rig for gaming. The other problem is all the projects that rely on the work valve does like heroic or lutris. They are ok but honestly just don’t work with anything but single player games. And if you do get it to work your at the mercy of either the launcher getting a patch and borking the game up or more then likely the developers pathing the game and having to go through all the bs to get the damn thing working in the beginning. I still love Linux and love the work they put into it but it’s definitely not there yet.

• Linux just doesn't have any issues playing games at all. The only issue that's on the horizon is that the developers/game studios are not willing to write proper software (e.g. launchers) for their games to work with Wine/Proton. We are basically at a point where we just patch Proton for launchers to work again, which is absolute bonkers and that's why modern gaming in general is just bull** in my opinion.

• oh lord in heaven oh michael. What bottle configs did you use for far cry 6 i just cant get it to run smoothly

• I keep Windows around. Not just because of certain games I play that just downright do not work under Linux yet or have been borked by devs again but because I like various operating systems too. Speaking of those games especially, VR games is what drives me to boot into Windows 10 Pro for the most part.
  Got ALVR to work under openSuSE with my Quest 1 and Pico Neo 3 Link which is fantastic but PavlovVR now uses EAC in a form that won't do with Proton, so no chance to give it a try under Linux.
  Honestly, sometimes just to test these things alone is the most fun part to me anyway, so I just enjoy what we have so far.

• "Without further ado… (unnecessary elongation of syllables)… let's get into it!"
  "Don't forget to like yada yada yada…"

  You think it's good scripting? Overall the video is just "meh" but I thought it was a passable wrap up of things. But when you add annoying mannerisms like above, it's just plain bad.

• i have to clear download cache every time to launch game, is it normal 😊

• I'm the exact same, I love where Linux gaming is going and I can't wait for more multiplayers games to support proton and I hope Ubisoft + EA atleast know that people use their launchers under wine so they don't break it everytime.

  I only have 2 games on windows at the moment and I don't even play them lol

  All of my other games work on Linux under proton just fine on amd with KDE plasma under wayland.

  Even tho I don't play rainbow, destiny 2 I hope they support Linux in the future as I would like more people to experience what Linux has to offer 🙂

• I played Halo on Linux Mint with Proton DB and it worked flawless!! I remember when it would not even start, Linux has come so far!!

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