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Any recommendations for low-end, Linux-friendly games to play? (beehaw.org)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hi everyone! So I just switched to Linux and I am a little unsure of what to play on my laptop.

It's a presumably decent laptop, 16gb of ram and Iris Xe, but I find that it has battery issues trying to play anything fancy like Skyrim.

I'm looking into things like emulation, finally tackling my Itch.io backlog, and bringing out old classics.

I like RPGs and text-based choose your own adventure games, so if you have any recommendations I'd appreciate it!

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Stardew Valley is really lightweight and Linux native.

Since you mentioned battery being an issue and that you just switched to Linux, have you looked into using TLP or Powertop to try doing some tweaks to squeeze out a bit more? It's been years since I've used Linux on a laptop, but that's what I used.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Never actually heard of those software until now. I looked it up and found out something about TLP having default settings---does this mean once I install it, I don't have to touch it again? Or do I have to do something like go into a terminal and install default settings after I install it?

I installed it, I just don't know what the next step is.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Pretty much! The Arch Wiki has some decent documentation on it (despite the name, aside from package names, it's pretty much distro agnostic these days)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I played Stardew Valley on Switch, but I cannot recommend it enough. One of the best games I've every played.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Came here to recommend the same thing. It's very lower-end hardware friendly, and is such a satisfying (and calming) game.