Linux gaming

>stop tainting your glorious Linux installation with dirty proprietary software (games).
freetard opinion but fair
>Keep a separate Windows machine or drive for this kind of thing or exclusively play FOSS games only.
how is this any better???

More like Linux Gay Men!!

linux?
isnt that a server system?

moar liek no gaems cope lol

Honestly impressed how much linux gaming has improved even in the last 10 years. I still remember the days of having to make AMD fglrx driver work, and that shit was a nightmare worse that any NVIDIA blob. Hope things keep progressing smoothly. t. Fedora user.

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linuxchads, i have no experience with linux, but since microshit is gonna force me to upgrade to corporate shitdows 11 in 2025, should i work on making a switch to linux now or should i wait a couple of years for linux to become easier to get into? if now, what are the best distros for gaming?

Nice try, Microsoft.

i would say its good enough to use now but you can wait for 2025 if you feel like it
the best distros for gaming are rolling release distros like arch and arch based distros as it means you wont have to wait for a major release to get updates for your drivers and other programs

Just beat Lego city undercover. It was pretty good but crashed a couple times. I'm in biomutant and days gone now. Days gone runs better than it did on windows for me

>SteamOS3 is announced as arch based
>Perfect for updates
>OS updates an entire image meaning any non steam shit may be wiped in any given update
What is it with valve always being so close to perfect and then fucking it up monumentally

>hould i wait a couple of years for linux to become easier to get into
I don't think it can get any easier than it's now, provided your hardware is compatible. The difficulty comes from people expecting it to work like Windows. For example: people often try to manually download drivers on Linux because they're used to it, however that's not what you're supposed to do. The drivers are included in Linux. Another example: on Windows your main way to acquire software is by installers, on Linux it is package managers which are kind of like Appstores. Fedora seems to be a fine distro for gaming, it's well supported and up to date. I'm using OpenSUSE myself but it's a little more niche. Another thing you should look at besides the distro is your desktop environment. There are two big ones GNOME and KDE, I feel like GNOME is one of the reasons why people dislike Linux... it's trying its hardest to be different. KDE is more traditional.

It's to keep it idiot-proof, and to make sure nothing breaks on the deck during updates.
It would only take a single bad update to "brick" the devices of thousands of people, and if you've used Arch long enough (like 5 years) then you've probably run into something that needs manual fixing or downgrading.

Don't flatpaks stay?

Yeah but they could just use a steam repo instead of literally wiping your shit on a random update.

More work than just releasing large periodical updates.
Also one more reason to wipe everything is that a lot of users are tech-savvy enough to go and edit config files and sudo make install random shit, but not tech-savvy enough to fix issues that doing so can cause while updating.

thanks gamers, gonna see if i can set up an arch dual boot or vm, hopefully i won't have too many issues

Hey! Advocating for FOSS games was my shtick!

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if it doesn't run black desert i don't care

>should i work on making a switch to linux now
yes, set up a VM and learn some basics, then give it a try from liveUSB, and then maybe even set up dual boot.
More familiar you will be with Linux, sooner you will realise that you don't need to let Microsoft rape you in exchange for video games.
maybe it will be exactly one of your contributions to the Linux ecosystem that starts the revolution that makes Linux so easy that even game journalists will be able to use it

why doesn't Yea Forums help make better FOSS games?

forums.lutris.net/t/vortex-mod-manager-doesnt-boot-after-install/14829

I will post my forum post in every thread until I get an answer.

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I had that exactly problem for SkyrimVR, I thought it was because I edited the install script for SkyrimSE to work with SkyrimVR but it's not it's just fucked but it runs perfectly the first install right?
I gave up on lutris and used bottles and I gave up on that too, modding needs another year of work, we don't even have a native client for bethesda games despite most of them being open source
I think Witcher3modmanager has a linux client and that's all I've seen

>black desert
tell them to tick the EAC box.

Fedora 35 or 36 lads?

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Fedora is trash.

What do you even use then?

36

just go with 36 when it releases.

Arch + KDE (Wayland)

Installed GNOME on Saturday after having issues with the KDE and XFCE compositors. Overall pretty good, but I had to go through many hoops once I tried getting ACT working for FFXIV, as expected.

Fired up Elden Ring again today since XIV server went down for 6.1 maintenance, but it would no longer launch, so I hopped back on Windows.

The tinkering can be fun, but I got filtered bros...

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>but it would no longer launch
prob just needed to swap proton vers or clear out the compatdata pfx for the game
happens sometimes

I would assume that works for games like HOMM3 which likes to steal the whole screen and change the display color space

more like Gamecope

I tried swapping between GE-Proton7-14, Proton experimental and Proton 7.0-1, but no luck.

I will try out the compatdata clear, thanks.

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yea sometimes steam will redo the pfx when swapping which is why I try that first; usually you'll see the first-time setup shit pop up again on launch if it does
but it doesn't always trigger, thanks volvo

Anyone plays Arma 3? How janky is it on GNU/Linux?

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I use Nobara because I'm too lazy to make my own post install script and it installs the gamer shit for me

I've been running linux for years and even I get filtered sometimes. Not out of lack of knowledge, just laziness. I caved and made a win10 drive four years back but only really use it when I have no fucks to give or I'm still getting major issues in a game even after tinkering. I just don't have the drive for the effort anymore to tinker for several hours. Thankfully proton and shit have made it a lot easier in general but I'm still a lazy fuck.

DAMN thats dissapointing.
I got a 6900xt and was looking forward to screwing around with cyberpunk.
If I opened up windows in a VM and tried to game on it would that absolutely destroy the performance?

Alt-tabbing games that are run through wine causes them to crash/freeze. My only way of fixing this has been to enable virtual desktops in the wine settings but i would still like to know what is causing the issue. Virtual desktop is annoying because even i alt tab or of the game it still reads my keyboard inputs. After some reseait may be related to kde and it's window manager but I have not tried installing another DE to confirm

Does it happen on Proton? Have you disabled your compostor? X11 or Wayland?

compositor*, also what DE?

x11. no it doesn't happen on proton and I haven't tried disabling the conpositor. How would I go about doing that?

KDE is my DE

For dome distros you can use the keybind alt+shift+f12 but it's likely in your display settings if you have the feature available. I don't think you can disable it on Cinnamon for example

>Alt-tabbing games that are run through wine causes them to crash/freeze.
This is very common with vanilla Wine. Use Lutris Wine or wine-ge instead. It this doesn't help use GamesCope.

I'll install lutris and give it a try then

Halobros...we're going home...

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anyone here uses a standalone WM to play vidya?

It helps with stealing the screen, but probably not with the color space issue.

I just noticed an issue with Deus Ex using Wine lutris-fshack-7.2 build running in 16bit mode only for some reason, even after picking 32bit in the settings. It works fine on the standard lutris-7.2 though.
If you have this issue in other games then I suggest trying other Wine versions. If you're using proton I guess you could try older versions since fshack is ported from Proton and I don't think there are builds without it.

I used to use i3wm on a laptop but it was a weak laptop that could barely run any games so I mostly emulated SNES and PSX.

yep, i3wm

I can't fucking believe Razer gets better driver support than Logitech. What the fuck. I'm legitimately butthurt.

Can't wait to see Microsoft break it again
But remember Linux is terrible for videogames, Windows 11 is the best way to playgames and Microsoft laughs at you freetards and aren't worried at all about Valve's Proton

does online finally work?

Slap fedora on it call it a day, if you dont like it change it. Assuming your shit is backed up on a diff disk ofcourse.

I did not read the thread or OP and just came here to type "games cope."

thinking bout installing fedora 36 beta
don't know if i should or just wait until release