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Ik this is sarcastic but the video games issue is real regardless of Proton and its derivatives on Linux. Windows really is the best way to game right now
I feel that this very much depnd on which games you're playing. Competitive or Roblox, Windows is the better choice. Majority of the games I play though works without any issues on Linux.
I've heard that some games even are faster on Linux even when running proton buy it isn't anything I've myself has investigated.
Gaming is one of my main intrests and I've been playing on Linux for at least ten years. It's not for everyone I guess.
Yeah, I built a new PC at the beginning of the pandemic and went Linux. I don't even not windows and play all my games on there.
It's great that it works for what you play, but it doesn't for me. Hopefully the steamdeck train continues to pick up steam, because it's pretty much the only reason Linux gaming is gaining ground.
I play Apex Legends ranked. It runs better on pop os than win11 on my PC.
As a #1 competitive Roblox player, I can agree
Is there a lot of monies in the competitive Roblox circuit?
Yeah I demand their lunch money
What is their reasoning?
There's many different reasons (all of them ignorant or blatantly made in bad faith) but one that I recall off the top of my head is that, since Linux gives users more freedom and more control over their operating system and computer, playing on Linux makes it easier for you to cheat in games. They like that in Windows, there's parts of the system that Microsoft simply doesn't allow users to touch, because in some cases, they still can, so they can use that to implement things like ~~rootkits~~ sorry I mean "kernel-level anti-cheat" that users have no effective way of removing or bypassing.
I have always found this argument disingenuous. Cheaters still find a way. At the end of the day, if you don't want cheaters, then play games with people you trust.
Fun fact: there exist drivers you can load before vanguard that bypass it. As usual, only regular users r fuk by copy protection.
I went fulltime Linux and therefor bought a full AMD system (better drivers) one year ago. I played about 15 games the last year, some of them AAA titles, rarely had problems, and all of them could be fixed by looking on protondb.com (unless the problems came from the game itself of course).
There are some titles which will not support Linux on purpose although it surely would run just fine, for whatever reasons, e.g. fortnite.
Yeah that's been my experience, but that won't be the case for everyone. I mostly play singleplayer games, only a few multiplayer games, so it makes sense that I don't have issues. But for someone who plays lots of multiplayer games, it wouldn't work.
My setup is I have my gaming rig with a 4080 running Windows, then I turned my old PC gaming rig into an unRAID server. It's a fully automated piracy machine running Plex. I just tell it what I want to download on my website.
Same here. Unraid + Arrs + Plex/Jellyfin + Overseer/Ombi + DelugeVPN + 50 other containers I have running
Excellent setup
What games are problematic on Linux these days? I've been Linux only for since Windows 7 server went EoL, and have had shockingly few problems, particularly in the last year or so. The few things that have been problematic with Proton work fine with GloriousEggroll.