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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (5 children)

The more steam deck and proton get games working on linux, the less need I have for this bloated windows.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Been a Linux-only gamer for a year now. The hype is real and PC gaming has changed forever. Most people just hesitate to actually leave Windows behind, but the grass on the other side is much, much greener.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

It's truly ridiculous how much Linux gaming leapfrogged with the Steam Deck. I'm contemplating installing a debian partition for my main PC since I don't really play a lot of games that need anti-cheat.

The madlads really did it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I made the switch and everything I want to play works. Some of it needed a bit of tweaking, though. Luckily instructions exist, and some began working with new Proton updates. It's a good time to be a gamer on Linux.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Yeah gamers are 95% good to switch.

Gamers and microshit have incompetiable values.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

If devs started making anticheat for Linux it would get closer.

If they stopped making launchers it would be easier too.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

how do i game on linux without a steam deck? (for windows games)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Is really just:

  1. Install any Linux Distro
  2. See if you have the drivers for your hardware already installed
  3. Install Steam
  4. Change the setting for Enable Steam Play on Steam
  5. Download the game and play it.

Of course, like in windows, something could go wrong and you need to tinker a little bit to fix it but for the vast majority is just like that.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I just hope feature parity happens before MS make their move to reduce windows pcs to literally zero clients that simply stream ´your´ OS to your screen from the cloud.

Don’t need a pc for much but god damn if I don’t want to play my games on my pic when I want. Online, offline, whatever.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

It's pretty much at parity. The only straggler I am aware of is ray tracing on the AMD side (supported on their driver package, but not yet with the driver included in the Linux kernel). I never use it anyway because I have a 6600 XT and don't want to play a slideshow.