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Your non-game-related Linux observations make me feel like we're living in different worlds. I haven't really tried playing games on Linux (I like games that re

by dmos62 6y ago

Your non-game-related Linux observations make me feel like we're living in different worlds. I haven't really tried playing games on Linux (I like games that require a Windows anti-cheat, so I'm dualbooting Win10), except Factorio and that was awesome. I'm also a power-user, I guess. Software, hardware driver installation is so comfortable on Linux. Everything is a few commands away. Screenshots? I've never had trouble there. You wrote Desktop Environment (capitalized). Linux isn't a Prepackaged End Product. You can get something like that from the popular distributions. I find Ubuntu plug and play, for example. That said, I usually assemble my own desktop environment, which is great for me, though I realise not everyone wants to put in the effort.

Shadonototro 6y ago
after all it's only just a personal experience, and it may vary, but still, i believe "defaults" is what push me away.. and it is even more sad because valve is basically alone on the PC market, they could do way more, and they should do way more because... : it is even more more sad because if that job started many years ago, we'd have way more native linux game, and an overwall better eco system for linux and what is EVEN MORE sad is now they'll need to rely on Microsoft if they ever want to do cloud gaming, because they'll need to pay for a shit ton of Microsoft server licences if it was vulkan + linux, things would have been way easier for valve, wich is, i'm pretty sure, the reason why we still haven't heard of an official "steam cloud gaming solution" yet.. very very sad indeed i am all in for Linux, but efforts shouldn't be all in into windows emulation layers, problem is elsewhere!
hojjat12000 6y ago
Maybe this person saw the recent post on HN about Flameshot (and supporting Wayland) and thought "Oh... you can't even take a screenshot on Linux". I think the best distro for gaming is Pop_OS!. They have a pretty reliable set of software and they also have an NVIDIA version of the distro which is great for newbies. It also comes with Flathub (instead of Snap) by default so latest version of most of the softwares that newbies will use are available (such as Spotify, Slack... and everything else Electron).

by dmos62 6y ago

Shadonototro 6y ago

after all it's only just a personal experience, and it may vary, but still, i believe "defaults" is what push me away.. and it is even more sad because valve is basically alone on the PC market, they could do way more, and they should do way more because... : it is even more more sad because if that job started many years ago, we'd have way more native linux game, and an overwall better eco system for linux and what is EVEN MORE sad is now they'll need to rely on Microsoft if they ever want to do cloud gaming, because they'll need to pay for a shit ton of Microsoft server licences if it was vulkan + linux, things would have been way easier for valve, wich is, i'm pretty sure, the reason why we still haven't heard of an official "steam cloud gaming solution" yet.. very very sad indeed i am all in for Linux, but efforts shouldn't be all in into windows emulation layers, problem is elsewhere!

hojjat12000 6y ago

Maybe this person saw the recent post on HN about Flameshot (and supporting Wayland) and thought "Oh... you can't even take a screenshot on Linux". I think the best distro for gaming is Pop_OS!. They have a pretty reliable set of software and they also have an NVIDIA version of the distro which is great for newbies. It also comes with Flathub (instead of Snap) by default so latest version of most of the softwares that newbies will use are available (such as Spotify, Slack... and everything else Electron).