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HC4L@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

Just switched after seeing how much of my Steam library I could play on my Deck. Just have to switch back for BF5 sometimes and I don’t miss Windows at all. Very nice experience.

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ABCDE@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
How much does it play and what about a GPU in terms of compatibility?

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- gamermanh@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  If it runs on proton it runs on mint
  
  The only issues I’ve had are the companies who refuse to enable the Linux versions of their Anti-Cheat, everything else has run and run better than Windows
  
  I use a 2080ti and even with that negative it only took about 15 minutes of fiddling to get my GPU working just fine in everything
  
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- HC4L@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  Short answer because I’m drunk but I have to admit I’m somewhat older so I play a lot of indie titles. And one of the few triple A games that I play (BF5) forces me to boot into Windows but that is a fraction of what I play.
  
  I use Discord, Steam and Firefox mainly and don’t do much productivity wise so probably a biased experience.
  
  My 6750XT was automatically installed and had no work from it whatsoever.
  
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  - ABCDE@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    That’s quite similar to me. I have an Xbox for Game Pass (Fortnite with the missus and whatever goes on there that looks interesting); a Mac for work/studies/games which are compatible and not intensive; and a Deck for other stuff, so I can see how much is compatible. Every time I think ohh, I’d like to play that (properly), the thought of going back to Windows makes me baulk. What mid-to-lower-range GPU should I be looking at, AMD also?
    
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- conciselyverbose@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  Nvidia is less consistent, but there are distros that do the work to make it work reasonably. You do want to check for how well a distro supports nvidia before choosing it if that’s you card, but my experience has been fine.
  
  The biggest limitation game wise is multiplayer games with invasive anticheat, but you can check specific titles on protonDB to see how well they work. Non steam games (again, excluding anticheat) also mostly work, but other launchers can involve more setup compared to just using steam’s built in translation.
  
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