Is that last 10% all about DRM and anti-cheat?
Probably… with many cases of “we could support Linux without any problem but we don’t do because we just don’t want to” included.
Game devs don’t need to do much, or anything. Proton, wine, DXVK ecosystem supports almost everything out of the box.
That’s my point. It would often just run so they go out of their way to not support Linux.
If they run fine, then what is the problem?
I’ve seen native linux ports of games that ran worse than the win/proton version.
I was talking about the 10% that don’t run and how that is not a Linux problem but artificially created by publishers to not support games on Linux that could in fact run perfectly fine.
The majority of “we don’t support Linux because of DRM or anti-cheat”-cases are simply lies. They don’t want them to work on Linux so they put in extra checks to prevent it.
Basically yes.
I tried playing the BC Piezophile demo recently but it kept crashing on the main menu.
I’m someone who doesn’t do tinkering. If it doesn’t work then I move on to a different game until it or proton updates.
As someone who chiefly plays single player games: yup, that tracks. I’ve played Cyberpunk 2077, Nioh, Yakuza Kiwami 1 & 2, the list goes on. All on Linux, no issues. In fact, over the past two years the only game that absolutely refused to run is an obscure title called DeathSprint 66.
But not League of Legends 🫠 Thanks anticheat
What’s the best distro for my desktop? I’ve been mucking around with some on an old laptop but haven’t attempted any gaming on it outside of some simple emulation.
Bazzite seems to be the go-to answer for linux gaming.
Though, shouldn’t it not matter? It’s all linux. It should all perform just the same.
To me Bazzite is for game-box console-like PC you leave in your living room. If you want to also have a desktop experience, pick a desktop OS. EndeavorOS for rolling release. Anything Ubuntu or Debian based for stability. LMDE comes to mind.
In any event running games through steam/proton will be mostly plug and play anyways. Kernel mods are a thing but pretty much just extra and not really necessary.
This is a great start, I’m using arch on my laptop which has been working for me but sometimes I spend more time troubleshooting settings than actually doing anything productive.
And yea I hear a lot of good things about Bazzite but the form-factor feels maybe just a bit too steam-machine/game oriented.
it’s a perfect desktop os
i think they have installed too many extensions to the desktop environment to make it appear console-like, but i disabled almost all of them and use mine for development and everything desktop-oriented
it just happens to do gaming flawlessly at the same time unlike many other distros i’ve tried over the years
bazzite is a perfect desktop os and development os and is also a rolling release
and you can rollback releases unlike most other distros, in the unlikely event you have a bad update
Linux mint installs easily (to be fair they all do), is familiar to Windows interface and has a big button to install nvidia drivers.
Mint or CachyOS.
CachyOS runs 10% faster but it’s Arch-based so it’s not as easy as Mint.
Good to know, I’m hesitant to go 100% arch on everything until I have a better handle on CLI.
You can either get a usb with ventoy with Fedora, bazzite and Cachy is and try them all out or there’s a website that lets you use any of the distros from your browser, it’s called distrosea
Amazing, thank you!
