I’d be happy to help if you’d like I can play 90% or more of my library on Linux. Basically, if its in steam it’s a cake walk. I recommend something like Mint cinammon or pop_os all you need is proton really. I can’t run games with certain anti cheat like tarkov cause the anti cheat devs don’t support Linux
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ls64@lemmy.world 9 months ago
I still can’t get anything to run consistently in Linux after 10 years, and many, many distros. Timber born and Raft currently never open, no matter what. I a huge Linux user but the gamin experience has always been so finicky for me and no matter how much I try it’s still unattainable. And even when they run its with a lot of configution and tinkering unless it has native support. I have no issue with that but I’m so frustrated my experience with this seems so diffent than what everyone else is having. I want to delete my windows partition and it still feels so far away.
Amends1782@lemmy.ca 9 months ago
ls64@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Running mint right now, went back to basics after a stint with majaro. I appreciate the offer but for now the windows distro stays and every few months I will try again. I know so many people have such a seamless experience. That is what makes it way more frustrating.
Jaffa@lemm.ee 9 months ago
YMMV of course but I was playing Timberborn just the other day on Mint, on an Nvidia card, through Heroic. Proton seems to have been a gamechanger. I have just made my first steps into switching my daily driver myself. I may have been lucky but all the games I have wanted to play have worked so far. I also have a Steam Deck, which is what has encouraged me that it may be possible.
akrot@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Heroic
This. While the experience for Gaming on linux is still not perfect, or as easy as install and play, Heroic is a good start. It still requires configuration and many hidden configs are not always obvious for the user, but I managed to run every game I threw at it flawlessly so far. All AAA games, and games from 2000 (Hitman, C&C games, Jazz Jackrabbit etc…), GoW, Cyberpunk, Hogwarts, etc. On a RTx 2070.
Telodzrum@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Between Steam, Lutris, and Heroic I can run every game I’ve tried on Linux.
MisterNeon@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Damn, I was thinking about switching but I play alot of Timberborn.
Evrala@lemmy.world 9 months ago
I play quite a bit of timberborn, worked just fine. Had some sound issues but changing to proton experimental fixed them.
InvisibleShoe@lemmy.world 9 months ago
I’ve got >500hours in Timberborn on Ubuntu. Runs flawlessly and never had an issue.
nutsack@lemmy.world 9 months ago
this game is actually fun? what would you compare it to?
MisterNeon@lemmy.world 9 months ago
It’s Rimworld mixed with Sim City in an amusement water park.
BaardFigur@lemmy.world 9 months ago
If you tried on wayland, did you test it on x11? For me that solved all my issues
the_q@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Nvidia GPU?
dewritoninja@pawb.social 9 months ago
What have you been doing. Cause for me it’s just install steam enable proton and install pretty much any game on my library. Or install lutris login to my accounts and play epic games / gog games. It literally just works
iamtherealwalrus@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Let me know when you get Witcher 2 to run on Linux. With some tinkering and magic settings, it can run. But it crashes so often it is bordering unplayable.
dewritoninja@pawb.social 9 months ago
I don’t own it but according to protondb it has native support for Linux
iamtherealwalrus@lemmy.world 9 months ago
That’s fine. But it crashes constantly on Linux, really on Windows. Point being that not all games run fine on Linux.
ls64@lemmy.world 9 months ago
I know this is a very common experience, but for me it fails. The list is too long but belive me I’ve tried it. It’s probably some weird driver issue or some thing I use for x y or z that conflicts. Who knows.