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I made the switch this year
I tried. I really tried. I think i sent through 3 different distros. But my gpu doesn’t like any of them also playnite isn’t on linux yet
Which GPU
Nvidia
Try CachyOS or Bazzite and do not stray from defaults. If it suggests you use the legacy Nvidia driver, you say “yes sir” and do as it says.
A huge fraction of linux trouble comes from picking a distro with bad defaults, or messing with good defaults.
playnite
It seems they are planning to move: https://github.com/JosefNemec/Playnite/issues/59#issuecomment-3542246599
I’m planning to move to Linux in 2026 after P11 is done, and since Playnite is my personal blocker for the move, I will try to make some Linux version in 2026. Definitely not fully featured version on parity with Windows version of P11, and probably desktop mode only, but something daily drivable with Linux specific features (Wine/Proton integration for example).
If that goes well, I’ll start looking into P11 Avalonia porting proper say I mentioned in previous update.
It’s more interesting to ask which 3 distros was tried 😁
Nvidia obviously
Made the switch during Christmas to Cachyos. I am extremely glad I did, and so relieved to finally be free of Microsofts clammy grasp.
I already stopped playing online competitive games long ago, so the anti-cheat thing isn’t really a problem for me. All the games I want to play works fine, even better in fact than they did on Windows.
The competitive game anti-cheat issue is kinda overblown nowadays. A lot of popular competitive FPS games run perfectly fine, anti-cheat and all, on Linux with wine/proton. And the ones that don’t either have incredibly invasive anti-cheat that you wouldn’t want running on your computer anyways, or have server-side “protections” that properly boot Linux players out of the game for some arbitrary reason.
I hate PCGamer’s website. Everytime I get partway through an article, a pop-up shows asking me to sign up to their newsletter. Now the pop-up alone would turn me off of their website, but what happens is the pop-up scrolls the article all the way back to the top of the page. So I completely lose my reading position.
PCGamer isn’t the only site to do this, but I think it’s one of the more popular ones that do.
The other thing that sites do now that earns an instant DNS block on my pihole, is capturing the back action that prevents leaving the site to show a pop-up that says “wait, before you go, check out these other articles” or something along those lines. HELL… NO!
The other thing that sites do now that earns an instant DNS block on my pihole, is capturing the back action that prevents leaving the site to show a pop-up that says “wait, before you go, check out these other articles” or something along those lines. HELL… NO!
I would like to find the dev who came up with this and shit on his lawn after eating two weeks of burritos.
This is why people like quotes, not just links. I friggin hate the ads
Yeah, DHTML popups aren’t much different from the old popups that used to plague the internet. The only real difference is that I haven’t seen them used maliciously like the old popups were to be super annoying, but even “good faith” uses were all “hey, stop what you’re doing and do this for me” without any shame that went along with a real person doing that in a store.
I look forward to the day someone gets an AI to block this shit (on the assumption that it’s more complicated than blocking the old style popups without interfering with legitimate DHTML and needs context awareness).
My theory is that all this is the fault of the cookie law. Before that, the design philosophy was that you could not break the flow of a visitor by pop-ups etc., because they would go somewhere else before even looking at your content.
When all the big websites suddenly implemented increasingly annoying cooking consent dialogs, the flow was already broken everywhere. And so now the floodgates had opened for all kinds “subscribe to our newsletter”, “get a welcome 10% rebate” etc., because users no longer has the expectation of an unbroken flow.
And, my god was that law stupid. What we needed was carefully balanced non-negotiable limits on what websites were allowed to do in terms of tracking users; what we got was every website implementing a site-dependent UI for functionality already present in every web browser (“turn off cookies”). The rules got different when GDPR arrived later, both for the better and for the worse. But the flow-breaking pop-ups we will probably never get rid of now that the public has learned to live with them.
End of rant.
So, so brave…
I only have one problem with my linux mint distro: Sometimes cheats for video games don’t work.
Like I like to use savegame editors for Cyberpunk 2077, but they don’t work on linux despite all my attempts, and PINCE (Pince Is Not Cheat Engine) works for almost all games but just not for some.
And that, ladies and gentlemen (and all those in between or neither) is when I finally found a reason to actually code after tinkering on-off for decades: I want to make those save game editors for linux! That is something that legit doesn’t exist but needs to.
Are there issues? Sure. HDR’s still a crapshoot…
Untrue.
You want to explain? Because the last time I checked getting HDR to work with games is a huge hassle.
with KDE and Wayland i have no issues, using Steam launch parameters:
PROTON_ENABLE_WAYLAND=1 PROTON_ENABLE_HDR=1Linux 6.18
AMD Radeon 9070XT
Mesa 25This is exactly what I do on Garuda Arch with KDE and Wayland.
I usually use the latest GE Proton 10-x for games with HDR.
Doesn’t this require you to also be on plasma 6.4?
Using proton wayland also breaks steam input, which can be deal breaker.
maybe. i’m on plasma 6.5 and usually on latest.
i can’t speak to steam input, but i’ve not had any controller issues with my 8bitdo and Gulikit.
It isn’t a controller issue. That still works through SDL.
Steam Input uses the Steam overlay, it takes your controller input and allows for more custom remapping options, macros, etcetc. I primarily see it being used to let people use a controller to play games that were not designed to play with a controller (by remapping the controller to move the mouse cursor and send keyboard inputs with the controller buttons)
I use Wayland and my xbox controllers work fine. I’d use Steam Input if I could, but most games are already designed to accept controller input directly so the damage is limited.
Actually very true.
Kde has good hdr with Wayland but a lot DEs still are very much a crapshoot, yes
Getting it to actually work with games is still a crapshoot, though.
Plasma 6.5 has broken tonemapping both with gamescope and proton wayland (which breaks a bunch of other things to boot). The fix was merged just a couple of weeks ago.
To be fair, HDR gaming is pretty bad on Windows, too. (Unless - so I heard - you use RTX HDR, which is still a workaround AND you need a new-dish NVIDIA card, which I don’t have.)
Niri has HDR too
I cannot for the life of me get HDR working consistently across games on my CachyOS rig. So I would say true. I also find Bluetooth is my biggest pain point for now. I seem to only be able to connect to stuff from the command line. Some Linux hardcores here might roll their eyes at that complaint, but I’m not afraid to admit that I prefer a GUI.
Some Linux hardcores here might roll their eyes at that complaint, but I’m not afraid to admit that I prefer a GUI.
Even most of the Linux hardcores use a GUI. Living 24/7 in a terminal environment is mostly a sysadmin/programmer flex.
The important thing here is that you were able to figure out how to do what you wanted via the terminal, that’s a huge first step since most people just give up as soon as they can’t use a GUI (props to you). Now that you know the commands to do what you want, you can now do the most common useful Linux thing: make a script
It sounds like Bluetooth works, but requires a configuration/setting that the GUI developer didn’t forsee.
What you need to do is to break down the individual tasks that you have to do in the command line (like, enable/disable bluetooth, connect to a device, etc) and type them into a text file instead (one command per line), add #!/bin/bash at the top. Save the file and make it executable (chmod +x filename). Then you can execute the script by typing (from the directory where the script is located) ./enablebluetooth.sh or ./connecttoheadphones.sh
Once you know the scripts work, you can bind them to a hotkey in Plasma Settings under Keyboard Shortcuts -> Add New -> Command or Script -> select your script, and bind it to a hotkey combo. If you wanted to get a bit more advanced, you could probably create some UI buttons that would launch the script when clicked but I don’t know how to do that off of the top of my head.
Once you’re comfortable with the workflow of 1. Figure out how to do it in the terminal, 2. Write a script, 3. Make the script convenient to use/automatic then you’ll come to appreciate the flexibility of the terminal (because you can put it in a script and never have to use the terminal!)
If you try and run into any issues just let me know and I’ll try to get to you pointed in the right direction.
I appreciate the thorough response and the attempt to help, truly I do. But I feel like it’s kind of missed the point a bit.
I actually run a home server, have written some scripts here and there for the server (particularly backup scripts), use VMs and have figured out pass through; my point is that I’m not completely clueless here, while still not exactly being a power user. Even though I’ve done that stuff, and have that knowledge, it’s not a fun user experience for me. When I open my Bluetooth settings, I want it to just work. I don’t want to have to dig into the terminal and troubleshoot stuff.
Windows sucks for a lot of reasons, but I at least, personally, never had issues with Bluetooth or HDR.
I would like it to just work too. That would be amazing. Spending time fixing bluetooth or HDR issues is annoying, 100%. I understand your point.
Like everything, it’s about choosing the trade-off that’s best for you.
The reason that you don’t have to fix these problems yourself in Apple/Microsoft products is that they invest millions of dollars in software engineering labor in order to cover every possible contingency and hardware configuration available and they expect a return on that investment. Instead of spending your time fixing bluetooth issues you can pay money to subsidize Microsoft/Apple fixing it. That has been, for quite a while, the best deal available in personal computing.
Except now they don’t just want to sell you a box with software in it that operates your computer. They also want to spy on you, lock down your device, prevent you from repairing your own system and trap you in a walled garden of subscription services and use their monopoly power to prevent any other alternatives from being able to offer better services.
I don’t like this new bargain, I’d rather write a script or read a wiki. The FOSS world is full of people who understand this dilemma and we’re all working together to make computers better for everyone. Part of that is helping our fellow users come onboard and deal with the issues that they’re facing, that’s what I was aiming for (and even if you don’t need the information, it may help some reader).
Not allowed to change all the computers as some play games like GW2 and use Steam. Thought about dual booting, but the computers are using the accursed Windows 11, and there’s fears they’ll (being Microsoft) will screw with that. Anyone who’s in a dual boot situation comment on their experiences?
Guild wars 2 runs great. Was my fear when switching aswell. Even got BlishHud to run. Gotta start it through steam and it should be fine.
Really? I have to say that news is great to hear, how’s the frame rate and support for cards? Steam setup was easy enough? What Linux OS do you recommend?
It is my first time dabbling with linux at all so i might just have luck and i had some small problems, that thankfully resolved themselves pretty easy.
I am using CachyOs since my brother in law recommended it and i could ask him when there where any problems. Have an old Nvidia GTX 1080 and have no problems with it yet.
Steam will be installed alongside Discord and Firefox with Cachy so no problem there. I could even test and transfer games through steam, from my older windows drives once they were mounted.
Getting BlishHuD to run was not hard. There is a good guide Here. Only framerate issues i have is with Pathing but i had that with windows aswell.
Installing some modules make it crash but i rarely use any except pathing and EmoteTome so you gotta experiment i guess.
ArcDps works right out of the box and any other game works through steam without a problem. I do not play mayor multiplayer games so i dont miss out on that stuff.
My wife likes to play sims 4 tho so i will have to make EA launcher work later this year when i switch her desktop to linux.
My tip is makin backups and have someone experienced to help if you need it. Also take your time. I did it on my vacation and it was quite fun to dabble tbh.
Vouching for the Raidcore Nexus addon system since it’s just tossing a .dll into the root GW2 folder. Granted the addon library isn’t huge, but my needs are simple. =D
Any chance of a how to for dummies? Lol
Yep, this was my must have game for switching over. Blish was a bit of a pain, but I haven’t loaded up windows on my laptop in months now.
Still using windows on my desktop, because I play racing sims, and I gather the hardware is not well supported on Linux yet.
As a 20+ year Linux user, no shit. It’s been great every year.
As someone who gamed on Linux in 2005, I can tell you that the experience was generally garbage back then.
I still remember making a bug report about the then ATI driver - performance tanked in certain situations in ut2k4, a game with a native Linux build. After months, they released a “fixed” driver which disabled some feature - so the game looked worse but didn’t lag.
Then I was trying to get Enemy Territory (and its total conversion TC:E) - another native Linux game - to play nice. I ended up running a second X server so that I could alt tab, but that made sound even more interesting than it already was back then; a friend actually shipped me a PCI sound card to be able to use teamspeak in Linux.
Then came source games, which worked but were choppy and missing some graphical niceties. Then I gave up, bought a laptop so I didn’t have to dual boot my pc, and never looked back.
Maybe, but this isn’t just any year, this is THE year of the linux desktop.
Yup.
Ditto.
I have been a user since around 2000, I work in Linux every day, and I get where you’re coming from - but in the context of gaming Linux has really only recently come into its own.
Like, could you imagine, circa 2010, telling a naive user that practically their whole Steam library would work with one click? Wine has always been a minor miracle, but at some point there was an inversion between being surprised when it worked, and being surprised that it didn’t work…
Only game I played on Linux before Proton was Minecraft Java (cracked) for Ubuntu in like 2014.
In fairness, it can be easy to go an entire decade playing almost nothing but Minecraft…
At the time, I was running on an very old 2004 Dell Win XP laptop and it still had alright performance.
These days on my full gaming PC, I get amazing MC performance, like 300+ fps vs my friend on W10 gets like 130+ fps.
Linux stays winning!
I used to be shocked when a game ran in wine without any manual intervention. Now I’m shocked when it doesn’t!
Now if you don’t mind I’m going to delete the root folder and see what happens.
Or do “sudo chown -R 1000:1000 /” because this one thing has permission issues
Free more ram with the ram command! Sudo rm -rf / --no-preserve-root
I am brave enough to say it: The ocean has water in it.
Praise me for my braveness.
How do you live so dangerously, sir? Aren’t you worried about retribution?
Wtf. MODSSSSS
'zacly.
Best reply.
i think this bravery is worthy of a marble carving. 12 stories tall, of you pointing at the ocean
Pretty sure Trump’s already building one, but I guess you could put this guy’s next to it.
I get the sentiment but the article is more targeted at the PC gaming crowd that isn’t exactly tech-illiterate but probably only knows Linux from memes about it requiring you to recompile a kernel to install Chrome or some other BS like that
I think a good portion of Lemmy and the fediverse already know it’s been at this level for a long while now but I’m excited to see articles like this since it means the tide is turning against Windows for the average user
Yeah, though would be better if the well were not poisoned, misleading perceptions, with words like “brave” and “now”.
but probably only knows Linux from memes about it requiring you to recompile a kernel to install Chrome or some other BS like that
Yeah just look at the article’s comment section (not recommended). Still full of ignorant misinformation. Borderline disinformation IMO.
I heard somewhere that by the time the scientific community officially announces life on mars the rest of us will have already concluded that there is life on mars. I feel like this is the same thing.
The problem is there’s a large difference between the 50% the average person needs and the 99.9% the scientific community needs. It’s just a different level of proof they’re looking for.
I realize that scientific rigor demands more to assert a claim. I was more commenting on mainstream gamer media embracing Linux after it seems like a well proven option.
Because science doesn’t work on circumstantial evidence, but hard proof.
Big if true.
Valorant DaddleDew,
Doth proudly proclaim.
Sees that the sea is due
To torrential rain.Dew truly polymath,
Paragon of deep.
Scrolls Lemmy in the bath
And nods right off to sleep.Next you’ll say the ocean is a soup.
Salt, meat, vegetables–it is soup.
MS may have finally pushed me to home linux. I’m used working with RHEL servers at work.
Given I’m actively avoiding modern multiplayer games for more reasons than just the fact that they pretty much all have rootkit DRM (I know kernel-level anticheats have a different target than traditional DRM, but they’re functionally DRM so they count as DRM to me), and one of the few games I have left which were intolerably broken on Proton work now (Civ3), I have no plans on running Windows again any time soon, not even in a VM.
Bottles.
There’s a flatpak called Bottles that does a pretty decent job of setting up a containerized Windows /WINE environment, if you have some program or game you can’t get to work quite right by chucking it into Lutris or Steam.
But I can’t be bothered to play windows games
I mostly use it for dev tools that only barely technically support linux, or just don’t at all.
That and uh… lets call them homebrew game decompression executables.
… yeah… yep.
I’d love to give it another chance, but the kernel doesn’t have support for my network card, so I just have to wait…
Ditched Windows 11 for Bazzite on my RoG Ally. It is much smoother, more stable and zero problems running games on Steam.
