i know that some games arent compitable and been to the site that shows which game is and which is not, and i also know most mods dont work on linux version which is a boomer (skyrim and rimworld mostly)?

so for gamers, why did you change to linux being a mostly a gamer?

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    4 days ago

    My friends are currently throwing a tantrum because I won’t “just enable Secure Boot and run Windows” to play Battlefield 6 with them. But I’ve never felt that I must play a specific game, so the few ones who are incompatible (usually due to bad anti-cheats) have been easy to ignore. There are plenty of good games I can play on Linux.

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    6 days ago

    I switched to Linux exclusively 2 years ago and I gotta say it’s been pretty awesome. Pretty much everything works without fucking around.

    I changed to Linux because it’s better. Windows sucks ass.

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    So far most things have worked fine.

    It’s a little annoying when steam wants to redo the vulkan compilation thing every time, but it seems to work fine if I skip that.

    Modding I’m not sure how it’ll work yet. Some stuff probably just works, if it’s like “edit this file” or “replace that file” but I haven’t tried yet.

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    It’s great if you’re not into online multiplayer, and I was already running Linux for years as a daily driver before it ‘got good.’

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      To clarify there are several very popular online games with anti-cheat that will never work BUT there are also a ton of other multiplayer games that do work great. You aren’t going to be stuck in single-player only moving to Linux, you’ll just miss out on a handful of popular competitive games.

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    6 days ago

    im not a huge gamer but i don get along quite well with steam games and gog games.

    i do miss warcraft classic and would love to play it again but i could never get it to work :(

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    If you just want to play the game, then gaming works surprisingly well on Linux. Very well.

    I have the same game on Steam running on 2 separate computers, Fedora and Win 11. On the Fedora one, everything is just rock solid. Heck, even when I am rendering some very intensive 3D stuff on another workspace for work and use 50% of the RAM, the game is still running. On the Win 11 laptop, random issues happen where my cursor dissapears and the entire desktop freezes.

    OTOH, if you need the gaming accessories to work properly then I’m not sure, could be a 50/50. For eg, if your laptop has some proprietary sound card, then Linux might not be able to take advantage of that. On Windows, these should work OOTB.

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    Built.myself a new.gaming desktop and decided to dive into thw deep end by installing linux. Been working quite well, so far. Almost all the games i play do not use any anti-cheat, so i don’t feel that i’m missing out on anything. The only game which does not work that well is Roadcraft. I’ll just wait until it is patched to run better. I have lots of games in my backlog to play anyway.

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    I’ve only had problems with Stellaris mods, i guess they use some windows only libraries? Ah and Elite Dangerous mods. Games like Starbound work even better on Linux though

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      Can you elaborate as to which Elite Dangerous mods you are having issues with?

      Are you able to get EDMC to work?

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        EDMC worked fine, it was specifically Elite Dangerous Observatory. I had to run it through wine and I wasn’t too confident in it.

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      Hmm, that’s weird. I’ve had linux-issues with Stellaris mods exactly once. They’ve been working pretty well otherwise

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        Most of them work fine, it’s just a couple that crash the game when loading. But it’s been a few years it might be fixed

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    Pretty good. Some games have issues on Linux, especially some that don’t have native controls for DualShock 4 controllers and not using Steam Input. Even the ones that do sometimes dont work without Steam Input on (which shows XBOX buttons).

    I’ve only had actual crashes with Forza Horizon 4 and 5 on Linux. Everything else works fine.

    Distro is Arch Linux (BTW).

    As to why I swapped, I get better performance on Linux than on Windows.

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      VR on linux actually works just fine from my experience. I’ve never had a game not work. The big issue is just headset support. The HTC Vive and Valve Index are the only headsets with official drivers, since they were made by Valve. Standalone headsets, like the Quest for example, also work using ALVR. Anything else doesn’t really work. There are open source drivers but they’re not complete enough to be useable unless something majorly changed there since I last checked.

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    most mods dont work on linux

    Mods work just fine, it’s mod managers that sometimes don’t work.

    If mods don’t have manual setup instructions, I install them on Windows, copy back to Linux the mod config file and happily play on Linux.

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      7 days ago

      In my experience running the Windows version of the mod manager in the same prefix as the game also works.

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    Pretty good unless your game doesnt enable anticheat support for Linux like the battlefield games or fortnite for example. Performance per game is either on par or better than Windows. Game support can be checked on https://protondb.com/

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    I’m joining the linux cult. I’m switching my main gaming pc this week. I’m sick of seeing news of Microsoft aiding in atrocities and destroying game studios.