#gaming on linux

[ivycopur]

So I'm running TS2 Legacy on Linux through Lutris, and I finally figured out how to get Lazy Duchess' TS2Extender to work! I just had to add this to my Lutris settings:

[alibaba026]

Is gaming on linux really that bad?

Im dual booting linux mint and windows and its kind of annoying having to reboot whenever i wanted to play a steam game. most of my games i saw were compatible with proton and i wanted to use windows for my non steam/pirated games instead. however, people online always say gaming on linux is pointless..so i dont know if its worth trying

[zsh-official]

Some good news for people thinking about building their own Steam box / media PC:

Might see if I have enough random components around the workbench and put together a Bazzite box for couch co-op at the TV.

[resetundone]

I've been trying out linux the past week on my home computer and DAMN. First of all - never felt so in touch with my sexuality. Second - it is making me realize that an OS isn't king. I bricked it multiple times to simply put in a usb and re-install it. With windows it always felt like I'm bricking the whole machine and committing treason of some sort.

Loving it so far. Just need to figure out how to install cybeprunk WITH all the dlc and maybe make davinci resolve work.

[sludge-life-daily]

silent hill 2 remake got me twitching..

moving my mouse around like i’m online shopping!

[wild-aspen]

Well, no. Baldur's Gate 3 will still not start. I can hit Play, it thinks about it, it says it's running... and then it quits without the launcher loading at all.

[edit]

I formatted the big hard drive as NTFS. Why did I do that. It has to be FAT.

sigh. now I have to download BG3. Again. I have downloaded this game so many times. It takes hours.

[edit 2] NO I'M WRONG IT HAS TO BE NTFS

[vetcgaming]

Installing Waydroid on Nobara 41 Linux

Feb 19, 2025🚨PREVIOUSLY RECORDED🚨

We show how to install Waydroid on Nobara 41, and get our PlayStation 5 gamepad working to play Android Games via the Google Play Store.

Main System specs:

Nobara 41 - KDE Plasma

Ryzen 5 5600X

RX 6600XT

Mesa Drivers: 24.2.4

32GB RAM 3200mhz Dual-Channel

KDE Plasma: 6.2.5

KDE Frameworks Version: 6.9.0

Qt Version: 6.8.1

Proton: 9.20

Kernel: 6.12.9-207.nobara.fc41.x86_64 (64-bit)

Graphics Platform: Wayland

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[mothfox18]

In my experience there’s also a weird divide between use cases for linux. I’ve seen a lot of people talk about how they judt slapped Mint on an old Windows XP box their grandparents used to check emails, play solitaire, and use a web browser and that’s it. Linux just works here, and will probably be faster than XP or something.

But if you want to do something more than that, gods forbid you want to play a video game, its a whole different experience. Once you go into more complicated things that just work on Windows, the more you realize how things aren’t just going to *work* anymore. And that is when a majority of the population is going to fucking flounder.

Not only is there a good amount of computer literacy needed to solve a problem on linux, the skills are completely different than that on Windows. Especially because most advice is given in the form of shell commands, and you’re going to fucking spook 90% of the fucking population when you tell them to run a conmand in the terminal.

Telling young zoomers to "just switch to linux" is nuts some of these ipad kids have never even heard of a cmd.exe or BIOS you're throwing them to the wolves

[shadowblade8192]

likes charge reblogs cast

[ivycopur]

inZOI on Linux

inzoi has been working great on my fedora install, but there was one simple tweak I had to make to get it to work! on the default steam runner, when I booted up the game, I just got a black screen. I had to right-click the game in my steam library, go to properties, compatibility, and force the use of a specific steam play compatibility tool to GE-Proton9-26.

if you don't already have this runner in your steam install, the easiest way to add it is through ProtonUp-Qt. you can probably find this program in your distro's software manager. once you have it installed, just select steam, go to "add version," and select the latest version of GE-Proton.

then it should show up as an option for your steam games and you should be all set! (of course this is just what worked for me, ymmv 😅)

[alibaba026]

My last Linux mint update

Literally lloving this os. I love the ui and customization. So far I haven't had much issues that werent unfixable. All my games run smooth, everything feels much more fleshed out and convenient. Dual booting this is with windows made me realize I've been using it way more than windows these past couple days. I only use windows for online gaming with my friends (because streaming on discord with audio on Linux is very inconvenient) and the moment I'm done with that I boot up Linux and feel so at ease. Such a welcoming and efficient os in the short time I've used it. Here are some complains that I haven't found fixes to however

My monitors has to be in reverse order in display manager or else steam games will launch on my secondary monitor and detects no mouse input when I switch it to my primary (however having reversed monitors can get adjusted to quickly) also my display settings seem to always reset after every reboot which makes me set the secondary monitors resolution everytime I boot up.

Things sometimes feel slow (this could very well be a hardware issue) but I feel like SOMETIMES starting apps takes a little longer than it should but once it's running it's smooth

Other than this though I'm thinking of once I get used to Linux, I'll switch to a more complicated distro with more options to make the os feel like it was made personally for me

<3

[unpretty]

finally gave in to my dark urges (installed a linux mint partition to dual boot)

[europa6502]

Linux on a PSP :3

[problemnyatic]

Yeah yeah linux having problems is a big joke but honestly have you considered that linux wouldn't run like shit if it didn't have to reverse engineer byzantine proprietary drivers and hardware architecture and deliberately hostile BIOS firmware and one thousand other things that exist solely to force everything that isn't a corporate OS to suffer miserably on every computer ever

[leothelilpotato]

I feel like Linuxposting. Let's Linuxpost.

Aka. Lemme just shill for Linux Mint for like a solid paragraphs because I need to scream.

I use Windows for uni (have to use Power BI Desktop for one class), but at the start of the semester, my Monday class teacher would ask us "do you use Windows or are you happy?"

This was a little jab since he's a Mac user. At the time I had my Ubuntu dualboot system. Picked it since I had worked with it before, wasn't the Greatest fan (it would behave weirdly and just close programs due to "memory usage" when I Know it shouldn't be acting like that)

Thing is, my Linux partition is tiny. Attempts at shrinking my Windows were. Not good. Eventually I accidentally broke my Ubuntu install by trying to remove packages I shouldn't.

Reinstalled it, realized it didn't spark joy. Found Linux Mint, switched over.

If I could, I'd nuke my Windows install. It's Just That Nice.

I can customize the FUCK out of it. System font. Icons. Made up filetypes just because. Desklets. Applets.

Felt like "my system" instead of "the system I own".

Originally had a Linux system purely to write fic. LibreOffice felt a lot more freeing compared to Word. Hell, I realized I refused to swear on my fics because it felt like I was being judged. Most of my AO3 fics (barring the very first one) were written in LibreOffice.

Only issue I had was the Burn my Windows extension (and another that made the windows all wobbly) won't make Cinnamon launch properly. Wonder why.

No biggie if y'all have to use Windows as well for X and Y reasons, but whenever I see the GRUB menu, I just ask myself: "am I gonna use Windows, or am I gonna be happy?"