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My mom uses Linux, btw (lemmy.world)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I installed Debian + KDE on my mom’s laptop. She hasn’t had a complaint since. How tech-savvy is she, you ask? I’m sitting with her right now, so out of politeness she put on headphones to watch her favorite soap opera. Mind you, the headphones weren’t plugged into the laptop. She was sitting there, headphones on her head, sound coming through the speakers, watching her soaps like this is how it’s meant to be done.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 7 months ago (13 children)

How does Linux handle steam and games?

[–] [email protected] 43 points 7 months ago (4 children)

Personally, a solid 8/10. Steam is probably the best experience if you are playing Steam games but there are also other third party launches that can handle Epic games and GOG and others.

Some games run natively but most will be using Wine, or Steam's implementation Proton. If you have issues, you can check out tinker steps on https://www.protondb.com (and also check there before buying a game to see if others have been running it fine).

The vast majority of games work out of the box, some need some tweaks, and I don't think I've come across any that I wanted to play that don't work at all.

Steam Deck and Steam's investment in linux has really been a game changer in this space.

[–] dandroid 7 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I don't think I've come across any that I wanted to play that don't work at all.

The main ones that don't work are the ones with kernel-level Anticheat. The one exception is Easy Anticheat. They made a way for that one to work.

So that will mostly be multiplayer games like COD, Destiny 2, Overwatch, etc. And EA is making a push to switch their games to their proprietary anticheat which doesn't work on Linux. So I think Battlefield is now on that list as well.

If those games aren't the types of games you play, then you should be mostly fine.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

Yeah I'm too old for twitch games 😆

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