I’m not a Linux hater (believe it or not), but I’m definitely not an evangelist either, and I think this eternal praise for Linux is just not warranted.
If you want things to “just work” in any capacity, then you’re in for a bad time.
Personally, I don’t want Windows 11 on my next PC, but I don’t have the time or the desire to get into the troubleshooting hell that unfortunately is Linux either.
People say that anything is possible on Linux, but at the same time roast you for even thinking that it’s not gonna take enormous amounts of un-learning and self education when coming from Windows.
Linux fanboys who don’t see it’s faults can be sort of toxic.
I don’t doubt that I’ll get downvoted for this, but I think there need so be more differing opinions on Linux on here.
0xSim@lemdro.id 1 month ago
I’m migrating to Linux Mint, 99% of steam games work as well as on windows. Those who don’t are mostly multiplayer games that insist to have some shitty kernel anticheat.
I’ll still keep windows on dual boot when I need it, though.
dtrain@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Shit , I just installed oblivion reboot and worked on day 1 without issues in popOS.
Gaming is such a nonissue on Linux now
tulwinn@feddit.uk 1 month ago
I’d have to disagree that it’s a non issue it’s definitely improved, but I still come across little irritations that pop up on Linux but not Windows games.
MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
It’s a non issue for most games, which is great but every now and then there’s a game that’s too tightly integrated into windows (like phasmophobia and it using the cortan API of all things for voice chat) or one that relies on an incompatible anti cheat system.
The Linux community need to figure out a new friendly standard to ensure anti cheat without out needing to act like a backdoor to the root kernel. I wish I was smart enough to help with that sort of stuff.
dubyakay@lemmy.ca 5 weeks ago
I think Valve and Arch are working on that with their collab on the secure signing enclave.
tfowinder@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
NVIDIA drivers finally behaving well?
Last tried gaming on Linux Mint 2 years ago faced a lot of graphic glitches, full screen issues, pointer issues.
Finally gave up.
I had NVIDIA gpu though
mybuttnolie@sopuli.xyz 1 month ago
No nvidia issues in mint for the past two years that I have been using it
dtrain@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Yeah, I’m on a 3080ti and don’t have issues with the drivers in the pop store
MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
NVIDIA GTX is still a crapshoot if you wanted to play games on an older system (at least with modern desktop environments that use wayland) and RTX is going to be fine for most things unless you wanted to use Steam Gaming Mode on bazzite (because it was built with AMD in mind and uses APIs that the equivalent in the nvidia drivers are buggy - but they seem to not matter when in games because devs make them work on both cards or have just accidentally avoided those APIs - I’m guessing that’s the reason - I think it’s vulkan related iirc)
Shyanae@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
I switched two Months ago to Mint and have no issues with a 1070. Even G sync works :)
MrNesser@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Well no Helldivers if I go that route
domi@lemmy.secnd.me 1 month ago
Helldivers works fine on Linux, I play it from time to time.
scintilla@lemm.ee 5 weeks ago
Usually it works every once and a while they have an update that breaks shit but they usually fix it pretty quickly.
caseyweederman@lemmy.ca 5 weeks ago
Gold rating on protondb
https://www.protondb.com/app/553850
pineapplepizza@lemm.ee 1 month ago
Maybe too late, but,no tux, no bux.
MrNesser@lemmy.world 1 month ago
What’s that mean