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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 (1 children)

All Steam Deck verified games should play just fine on that laptop. While Intel Xe graphics are not the greatest, Steam Deck is restricted to 15W and you laptop is not.

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

Wait, what? Is that why everyone's recommending steam deck games? I assumed Steam Deck verified games required something like, an okay GPU. Its actually the voltage? That definitely makes my life easier, lmfao.

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

Well, the TDP of the chip is only part of the equation; The main thing is that the Deck is limited in performance in ways that your laptop likely is not, regardless of clock-for-clock differences.

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

By the Steam Deck's site, the verification means that:

It plays well with the Deck's inputs
Can use the Deck's native resolution or similar (1280x800 or 1280x720) without issues
It "just works" without having to tinker with the game
Every component of the game is supported by Proton if running a non-native game

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

Intel Xe doesn't seem that bad, specially compared to older Intel GPUs (UHD 630-like). Correct me if I'm wrong, but they're basically low power versions of Intel Arc. I still don't think they're on level with a RDNA 2 GPU like the Deck one.