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I'm very much in the same boat. I've had more than one attempt at gaming on Linux over the past two decades. The Linux situation is, still, a joke. Its better t

I'm very much in the same boat. I've had more than one attempt at gaming on Linux over the past two decades. The Linux situation is, still, a joke. Its better than what it was, but its still far more hassle than its worth. My free time is limited, and when I want to play a game I'd like to play a game, not play a game of "sort out the next bug / hurdle as to why this game wont run properly". To some degree this is not the fault of our Linux developers, but the fault of hardware vendors who will not release decent working drivers.

throwaway3699 5y ago
Hardware developers are too embarrassed to release the source for their drivers I assume. And probably worried about leaking trade secrets also. A shame, because the open source community would probably fix them up happily. But this goes beyond gaming, Nvidia are crushing it with chipsets for ML workloads. A non-negligible portion of Linux compute is now running through these proprietary machines and I find that quite sad.
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techrat 5y ago
Huh. Cause when we're sticking to the topic... Steam and Linux... I can honestly say that with exception of less than a dozen games that won't run with Proton, everything else has been exactly the same, if not BETTER, than running games within Windows. Fall Guys has EAC which will never run in Linux. So there's no point in even trying. Games like Katamari Reroll have more problems in native Windows than they did on Linux, so I actually end up with a better gaming experience in Linux. As far as Steam goes, it's the same as Windows once you enable Proton. Click "Install." People talk about hassle as if their experience 5 years ago is still the modern use case. Lack of decent working drivers isn't limited to Linux either. I remember nVidia dropping driver support for the 2xx series GeForce cards... and being unable to run games on my GTX 275 in Windows because I'd always end up with out of memory errors. That problem went away when I switched to Linux. The meme of how you have to cut and paste stuff into terminal to get things working hasn't been the Linux reality for some time. Your precious time is mostly safe these days.
- xtracto 5y ago
  >The meme of how you have to cut and paste stuff into terminal to get things working hasn't been the Linux reality for some time. Your precious time is mostly safe these days This made me chuckle. My main desktop is linux and I also game on it. But just this week I was trying to connect a 2nd monitor in my Linux PC into the integrated graphics hdmi and its deffinitely not "plug and play", not feasible with point and click, and even the instructions floating around Linux forums didn't work for me. This PC I have dual boots to Windows (i use it very rarely) and to test I connected the 2nd monitor on Windows and it worked automatically. (I commented about this here in HN two days ago, so my history shows it). I love working and playing in Linux. But I am honest with people who ask me about it, there are still plenty of rough edges and "paper cuts'. S

throwaway3699 5y ago

Hardware developers are too embarrassed to release the source for their drivers I assume. And probably worried about leaking trade secrets also. A shame, because the open source community would probably fix them up happily. But this goes beyond gaming, Nvidia are crushing it with chipsets for ML workloads. A non-negligible portion of Linux compute is now running through these proprietary machines and I find that quite sad.

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techrat 5y ago

Huh. Cause when we're sticking to the topic... Steam and Linux... I can honestly say that with exception of less than a dozen games that won't run with Proton, everything else has been exactly the same, if not BETTER, than running games within Windows. Fall Guys has EAC which will never run in Linux. So there's no point in even trying. Games like Katamari Reroll have more problems in native Windows than they did on Linux, so I actually end up with a better gaming experience in Linux. As far as Steam goes, it's the same as Windows once you enable Proton. Click "Install." People talk about hassle as if their experience 5 years ago is still the modern use case. Lack of decent working drivers isn't limited to Linux either. I remember nVidia dropping driver support for the 2xx series GeForce cards... and being unable to run games on my GTX 275 in Windows because I'd always end up with out of memory errors. That problem went away when I switched to Linux. The meme of how you have to cut and paste stuff into terminal to get things working hasn't been the Linux reality for some time. Your precious time is mostly safe these days.

xtracto 5y ago
>The meme of how you have to cut and paste stuff into terminal to get things working hasn't been the Linux reality for some time. Your precious time is mostly safe these days This made me chuckle. My main desktop is linux and I also game on it. But just this week I was trying to connect a 2nd monitor in my Linux PC into the integrated graphics hdmi and its deffinitely not "plug and play", not feasible with point and click, and even the instructions floating around Linux forums didn't work for me. This PC I have dual boots to Windows (i use it very rarely) and to test I connected the 2nd monitor on Windows and it worked automatically. (I commented about this here in HN two days ago, so my history shows it). I love working and playing in Linux. But I am honest with people who ask me about it, there are still plenty of rough edges and "paper cuts'. S