Comment by vivzkestrel
13 hours ago
primary use case: gaming. needs to support everything from 90s to cutting edge modern games without hiccups
13 hours ago
primary use case: gaming. needs to support everything from 90s to cutting edge modern games without hiccups
https://bazzite.gg/
Should work out of the box, no configuration needed.
The only caveat is games with kernel based anti-cheat, but I don't play many of those. Arc Raiders works just fine, for example.
I'm sorry but linux gaming absolutely does not support "support everything from 90s to cutting edge modern games without hiccups"
I'm sure for some users it's acceptable, solid even, but I know several people, including myself, that keep hitting edge cases and invisible walls when on Windows these games "just work". And no, it's not about kernel anti-cheats or any other DRM.
Agreed and it's frustrating that people don't admit this.
I recently started dual booting Linux again and tried both Arch and CachyOS. Former with Hyprland, the latter with Gnome just to see how well the games run. I knew going in that tiling window managers don't behave well with games and that was indeed the case. With Gnome, even some native games made by Valve had terrible performance issues where I have none on Windows. There are also cases, and I wouldn't even describe them as edge cases, that you have to tinker to get things to work properly.
I have a very basic dual monitor setup, but yesterday I spent an hour trying to fix a problem where my cursor would escape the game's window into the second monitor. The obvious solutions (gamescope) didn't work for some reason. Did I end up fixing it? Yes. But that's only because I know my way around Linux. That's an hour I'm never getting back.
I'm not making an argument for Windows, I very much dislike using it but Linux folks need to accept reality. A reality which isn't fair, but reality nonetheless. That's when you start to make progress. (Which, to be fair, they have. Tremendously so. But there's still a long road ahead!)
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I use crossover and/or Lutris on Linux in order to run most of my 90s Windows games as it's a complete pain in the ass to get them working under Windows 11.
> I'm sorry but linux gaming absolutely does not support "support everything from 90s to cutting edge modern games without hiccups"
Neither does Windows. W11 (or was it W10) famously broke a bunch of old games. Running Windows games from the 90s is easier on linux than on Windows at this point.
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Well, guess you're married to Windows if those are your requirements. Proton runs most games these days[1] (but not all). Apparently older Windows app/games run better on Proton/Wine than Windows (better citation needed) [2].
[1]: https://www.protondb.com/explore
[2]: https://www.reddit.com/r/linux_gaming/comments/1kjib0y/is_th...
It doesn't. Case in point is my spare late 00's laptop running mint and early 00's / late 90's games. Some (Age of Wonders 1) don't work at all under wine/proton. Others (Age of Wonders SM, dosbox games, Majesty) technically work but keep hitting snags like midi just flat out not working, display resolution being read and set incorrectly, visual artifacts. Everything tested worked perfectly fine under Win7 and Win10.
Age of Wonders 1 used to work. That patch that you need to get it running on Win10+ was originally made for Wine: https://aow.heavengames.com/cgi-bin/forums/display.cgi?actio...
Is that not sufficient these days? I might take another look; this is one of those games that I intend to keep running one way or another until I die.
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They can just run a windows VM which shouldn't require too much memories for the kinds of games they want to play.
So not modern Windows, right ? ;-)
Should work without issues, except when an "anti-cheat" rootkit is needed by the game.
Source: Someone using Debian to play games from the 90's (Master of Orion 2, HoMM 2&3, etc) to recent games like Helldivers 2