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Oh the times a-coming, but as I only really use my PC for gaming now, Iβm holding out for a SteamOS distro.
I've heard good things about Bazzite if that's an option for you.
Bazzite has been awesome as a recent windows expat. 100% recommended and the only game I have not gotten working via the built in steam compatibility tools has been pubg.
I think the only thing stopping me from gaming 100% on bazzite is Helldivers 2 anti-cheat (so fucking tired of these rootkits) isn't Linux compatible last time I checked.I hope that shit changes soon, because I can't wait to fully remove windows off my extra hard drive.
Helldivers 2 is reported to work on Linux. IIRC the anti-cheat only requires kernel level access on Windows and runs in userspace on Linux.
Interesting, I'll have to give it another try soon then. Thank you!
When I stop needing Windows, that's gonna be one of the first distros I try. Haven't tried the atomic distros properly yet.
I spun up a win10 vm in bazzite to run my CAD and Windows specific stuff and have basically not used it in months now. The libre office suite has gotten much better over the years and most of my normal usage just didn't end up being OS specific. Its been a great and easy transition for me.
Nice. I'm hoping to get there eventually, but work stuff is keeping me on Windows.
you don't have to wait, games run fine in most distros and the ones that don't are probably because of anti cheat which won't be solved with steamOS.
Yeah, I keep my Windows PC purely for League of Legends due to their anti cheat (read rootkit) and it's a pre-2017 chip, so it's not Win 11 eligible (which I've always counted my blessings for). And also the Spotify web page doesn't work well for me on Linux. Other than that, I do pretty much everything on my newer Linux machine.
yeah, part of me is happy these abusive rootkits disguised as anti-cheats "don't work" on Linux. We customers shouldn't be putting up with that crap.
Valve is working on it.
Same here. The minute I can be confident than my steam collection will run on Linux, I'm switching over.
Have you tried? Because Proton is the miracle people make it up to be.
I'm not in a position to experiment, but I'm following the lead of a friend who is in such a position, and is far more technical than I am.
I'll ask him about proton. Appreciate the recommend.
Just started using mint. Tell me a game that you're curious about and if I own it I'll try it out.
My current big ones are Windsail, Sunless Sea, Sunless Skies, Stardew, and Traveler's Rest.
Also Star Trek Online, but that's not Steam.
Appreciate any testing you are able to do.
Just downloaded and played stardew for a few. Seems to work fine.
Sunless Sea, Sunless Skies and Stardew Valley have native Linux Support. For Stardew, even the third modding API works flawlessly for me.
For the other ones, they are reported to run well on protondb.com, which is a good place to check Linux support (not only for Steam games). The reports there usually also list, which proton version works well.
I appreciate the info!
I own Stardew. Ill check out the others and see if I'd like to buy them. I'll do the testing after i get off work tonight and let you know.
Off the top of my head all but STO will work no issue
ProtonDB says STO is gold rates, but you gotta use the experimental branch. Otherwise, will work pretty flawlessly
PROTONDB is gonna be a great resource: it'll tell you how playable any game is right now using Proton (you can force non steam games to run proton ezpz by launching through steam)
Interesting. I may have to start switching over, then.
Yeah SteamOS is nothing special. Any of the big distros can give you a similarly solid gaming experience these days.
https://www.protondb.com/
I haven't had any issues with any of my games.
For anything not on steam, there's bottles or lutris, both of which work amazingly well.
There was a comment thread in one of the Linux communities a while back talking about this mindset. Obviously the comments got a bit rude and unconstructive, but the point is that you can switch to something like bazzite now and most things will work pretty well, but if you're holding out until it's perfect then you'll be waiting forever!
The only game I have not been able to get running via steam/proton has been pubg.