Is that game open source?
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.
I thought that was just Ubisoft quality control. :D
Found the Nvidia user.
It’s such a pain in the ass. Every time I have a kernal update it’s time to go into single user mode and hit up lynx for the new graphics driver.
Fuck NVIDIA
do you mean their graphics cards or everything they make?
No idea what else they make, but my experience with theirs graphics cards is enough to dissuade a purchase of any of their other products.
“ah shucks, Windows Update just initiated a reboot without asking, guess I’m out for the night guys”
There’s no shame in dual booting. Moving all your non-gaming stuff away from windows is a big step in the right direction.
Yeah give me a minute to install and setup proprietary Nvidia drivers, Retroarch, PCSX2, Lutris, Steam and Wine-staging along with all of the necessary dependencies. Worth it tho
I always hear people say they sometimes have issues with games but I’ve switched to Linux relatively recently and I still haven’t had a game in my library that didn’t play.
Ever since Valve started kicking it for Wine/Proton, gaming has been a cinch.
Me playing wow on lutris and it crashing the one time a week as we start a raid boss.
Never had an issue playing classic for a year
Literally me when I was trying to get League working on Kubuntu on an 8-year old laptop lol
If I were to pick someone likely to overcome this adversity, it would be Miko.
uses Linux
wants to run proprietary Windows Games on it
Well, too many Linuxians tell us it should work “flawless” because “gaming on Linux has improved sooo sooo much!”
I don’t need to adhere to the FOSS philosophy in the extreme to be allowed to use Linux
Thats not the point. You buy Games by Developers with limited resources. They dont care about FOSS you could say, in many cases. So you are unsupported.
Linux runs Linux Apps, its Essence is that it is a free OS, that you can trust.
Running proprietary stuff made for other Platforms is interesting but a Battle. It makes no sense you could say.
It makes Sense for Valve, as they save themselves Billions in Windows Licenses and they can make a tailored device. And they sell Games.
For you, paying for Games and then working to make them run, I dont know.
Not that I dont like the idea, but its the job of Developers to make the Games run.
Sure… Which is why Valve has built Proton, which makes nearly all PC games run on Linux… Sure, the developers of the games themselves should have made the Linux port, but for many developers it’s cost prohibitive to support another platform with very few potential customers.
But the more players who run Linux (and Steam Deck by extension), the larger the incentive for developers to support Linux natively. And in turn more games will get made for Linux, which will draw in more people to switch to Linux.
So as long as my game runs, then I don’t care whether it was the original developer, Valve or an open-source developer why wrote the code that made it work. And luckily I’m one of those people that don’t mind having to tinker a bit to make things work (hence why I’m on Linux in the first place)
If we as gamers stubbornly refuse to switch to Linux until our games are natively ported, then developers might as well just develop their games for Windows, where the players are…
this is exactly me every time i’m showing someone how easy it is nowadays to run games in linux, only for the game that was running perfectly the previous night to throw some random error and crash my system
Steam with Proton made this way more easier than in the past. OTOH, yeah, sometimes I feel like this when tuning CS2 on Wayland.
Nobara + NVIDIA here. Everything works. Always. Seriously.
As someone who was already only mostly playing single player games, the transition from Windows to Linux was so easy. All my games just work. The only multiplayer game I fuck with anymore is Battlebit Remastered, and that works great.
Since my style of learning is “jump in and figure it out as you go” (impulsive idiot), I’ve been very impressed with how much has just worked.
I’ve been afraid to recommend my set up to friends though because I don’t want to be their troubleshooter.
I love Linux, but I never expect it to be mainstream or even extremely accessible to typical users. In fact, if it made it to mainstream, it’d probably get ruined somehow by corporate interference, monetization, etc. How you may ask? Well, corporations have a lot of money and influence and I’m sure they could “find a way” if motivated to do so.
I love Linux, but I never expect it to be mainstream or even extremely accessible to typical users
It already is mainstream. You probably own 10 times as many computers running Linux than Windows without even knowing it.
Desktop computers are a just a tiny part of the market.
it’d probably get ruined somehow by corporate interference, monetization, etc.
Yeah, it did. It’s called Android.
This is a dumb argument. Yes, my phone uses Linux. How many of the Android users actively come in contact with the underlying system?
Mainstream Linux means a big part of people actively choosing to install a Linux distribution or buy a computer or notebook with a real Linux distro pre installed (not that lightweight barebones distro they preinstall so they can sell it without Windows but with OS).
I use Gentoo, the family PC has OpenSUSE, only my wife’s laptop has Windows… Because guess what, she wants to use what she’s used to, what she knows.
