Thread about playing video games on GNU+Linux
Linux Gaming Thread
Andrew Gutierrez
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David Gray
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Cooper Richardson
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>But does Linux even have games?
store.steampowered.com
gog.com
itch.io
humblebundle.com
>But can I play Windows games on Linux without spending all day learning how to configure Wine to run them?
protondb.com
lutris.net
playonlinux.com
>But isn't Linux hard to install?
Not really. Choose a distro, find a guide, and follow the steps. You'll probably be downloading an ISO image, making a bootable USB device, and booting to it. The installer will do everything for you, if you picked a beginner-friendly distro. If you don't know what you're doing, just pick something easy like Linux Mint. Here's a guide for that: linuxmint-installation-guide.readthedocs.io
>How do I install Steam?
Not every distro is the same. On Linux Mint, you can find it in the software manager and click the "Install" button, or you can just enter `sudo apt install steam` into a terminal.
>How do I use Proton with Steam?
1. Install Steam.
2. Log in.
3. Go to settings.
4. Go to the "Steam Play" tab.
5. Check "Enable Steam Play for supported titles" and "Enable Steam Play for all other titles".
>But not all of my games work out of the box.
Check the comments on ProtonDB. Sometimes you'll need to enable or disable specific Proton features using launch options.
>But ProtonDB says some of my games are borked.
Then dual boot play them on Windows.
>But I don't want to dual boot, and I don't want to learn how to use Linux, and most importantly I have no actual interest in using Linux at all!
Then don't use Linux. That's the nice thing about having choices. You can choose to do what you want. You can even make dumb choices, like choosing to go into a thread about an operating system you don't like and then complaining as if you're being forced to use it.
Hunter Nguyen
Outside of games with DRM, I don't think that there's anything that doesn't work on Linux now.
The technology side of things seems to be a solved issue.
I can't remember the last game that I wanted to play but couldn't
Brandon Nelson
>2020
>not making your own games in Linux
Ayden Campbell
Linux will never catch up and making daily begging threads won't help you
arch.b4k.co
David Garcia
Nathaniel Torres
Robert Butler
>Halo works perfectly on Linux if run without Anti-Cheat
Now if only work would get done on making Anti-Cheats work with Proton, there would be nothing stopping Linux gaming
Hudson White
Linux? You mean uCUNTu? With that faggot penguin? That operating system?