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    [–] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago (3 children)

    The only things I can't play on linux are games with heavy kernel-injected anti-cheats and racing games (AC and BNG). Everything else "just works". Hell, I even managed to get Overcooked's cross-platform version to work.

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    [–] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago (6 children)

    Is this true anymore with Steams Version of Linux? For the most part shit runs fine on my steam deck

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    [–] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    Meh. I definitely had issues getting bg3 working well on Linux.

    Eventually I switched to windows and it was a nightmare of different and worse issues.

    Back to Linux, found a fix. Sweet.

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    [–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago (3 children)

    Is the joke that games are proprietary software too?

    [–] abraxas 7 points 10 months ago (7 children)

    Well that too. The real joke is that despite the fact we've had 10 "years of the linux desktop", it's still an absolute bitch to get PICK A GAME working on that shiny linux box.

    My new Lenovo Legion, I'm struggling with desktop graphics tearing issues in linux (just viewing the WM, of all things). When i have time, I'll muddle through it, but I can't pretend that is easier in linux than windows. It's vendor-driven, sure, but the end user doesn't care why they waste 8 hours doing setup work, only THAT they do.

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    [–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago (1 children)

    You've just got to power through the glitched textures and invisible floors, and talking to a floating pair of eyeballs and teeth is just the Mars Attacks version of your game.

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    [–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago (3 children)
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    [–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago (5 children)

    Wish I could play games on Linux, but for some fucking reason I can't figure out my gaming laptop with Nvidia 1660ti will not work properly with most games. If I ever can afford a new computer I'm probably going with AMD instead tbh.

    [–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (4 children)

    What's the output of nvidia-smi? If it's a newer laptop you might need to add a machine owner key so that secureboot will allow the required dynamic kernel modules to load. In debian the module will be signed with the dkms signing key, adding it as a MOK is fairly simple. https://wiki.debian.org/SecureBoot#Making_DKMS_modules_signing_by_DKMS_signing_key_usable_with_the_secure_boot

    *Try disabling secureboot first, if things start working re-enable it and follow the advice above.

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    [–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago (1 children)

    There's no shame in dual booting. Moving all your non-gaming stuff away from windows is a big step in the right direction.

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    [–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago (1 children)

    This was me last week when my wife wanted to play a PC game together and I threw the PC to the TV via HDMI for the first time since I switched from Windows to Arch. The audio would not work at all despite all the settings being very clear that it should be sending the audio over the HDMI. Same physical/hardware/cable/TV as the setup that worked flawlessly in Windows. Still not thrilled about that one.

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    [–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago (6 children)

    Still a couple deal breakers for me, though most stuff otherwise runs fine. No HDR support. Sucks if you have a great monitor but can't use it. No nvidia broadcast. Necessary for my mic+speaker setup, common alternative such as noisetorch are convenient, but don't even come close to echo filtering quality from the speakers. Yes, that's super subjective obviously. Performance tends to be noticeably to only slightly worse on max settings with nvidia on highly specialized, very demanding games. Some anti cheat tools struggle with compatibility modes.

    We're getting there, but it's tough with nvidia not caring. :/

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    [–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago (3 children)

    This anime girl is so cute.

    [–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

    Is it really 5 minutes? Usually I ask for 2 hours and then spend 2 days on it and by that time there is a new game my friends found

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