(The “Windows” slices of the pies are entirely made up by Baldur’s Gate 3, which also runs well over Linux)
I love Linux but it really does need more VR support.
And racing sims. I was talking to someone on Bluesky and they said the lack of racing sim gear support is holding them back.
That’s the case for me, too.
Yup. I guess the gist of it is, Linux is great for just general gaming, but if you’ve got something specific, it’s just not there yet. (I see a bit about VR too)
I just make do with running both. Of course would prefer to have everything on Linux, though.
Yeah, I’d love to get a VR headset, but there just aren’t even games to play on Linux, and the headsets with good Linux support are either expensive or hard to find.
Hopefully that improves, I imagine it’s stopping people from switching to Linux.
I’d really love a wireless VR headset that is just a display with inside out tracking and streams from your PC.
There’s really no reason to have built-in computation unless it’s a standalone device and it just leads to a bulky and heavy device that still has a short battery life.
For me, I have been dual booting, but I have also had my linux set up for a few months now and was using it exclusively until i got my quest 3.
I can definitely see the allure of just sticking to windows if one plays pcvr exclusively or if one just hasn’t taken the plunge into linux yet.
I really do hope that support comes. Either officially or unofficially by a linux savant who knows this stuff.
Yup. One by one the papercuts are getting resolved, so hopefully it’s just a matter of time before VR support gets better. Ideally Valve gets interested again and makes another push for Linux VR (maybe some tie-in with the Deck?), otherwise we may be waiting a while.
Yeah, I just keep a windows partition for VR. In all of my experience with VR on Linux, it has been terrible and buggy which is just intolerable. I gotta be honest, its not smooth sailing on windows either, steam vr has some bugs they haven’t fixed for years, so combining that with Linux just is not good.
I’ve been using Linux more and more recently but one thing that annoys me is my EndevourOS thinks the PC is not in when I’m playing games via a gamepad, therefore dims the screen and tries to sleep. How do I fix this? I’m honestly surprised I even need to.
KDE? You tried “Systemsettings > Power Management > Energy Saving > Dim Screen” maybe already? I don’t have what you’re describing either und Arch nor Endeavor.
but it’s not good for just gaming
ftfy
Why are you using Windows for BG3? I’ve been using Pop!_OS and it runs perfectly.
I’ve finally decided to make a switch to Fedora, after giving up last time due to almost nothing I needed working.
I still didn’t manage to get Unity working, which I unfortunately really need, and for some reason it’s also not working in a Boxes VM, but I was really surprised with Steam! Not only every game I tried so far is working great (after solving some initial trouble caused by NVIDIA card), I also managed to just run the games I have pirated directly from the Windows drive, without having to reinstall them, by simply adding the .exw to Steam.
The only issue left is to solve missing cutscenes/videos, being replaced by that “TV color test” image. Has anyone managed to solve it? I’ve tried installing various codeks, but it didn’t help.
The only thing I’m missing is Parsec, since I was pretty used to workong remotely through wake on lab and parsec, but I suppose that’s solvable down the line. Oh, and everything being Electron apps, especially since i unfortunately need O365 stack for work. But its not that bad.
So far i love it, and have already set Fedora as my default boot. Only have to switch for Unity, as of now. I’ll see how long it will last.
If anyones looking for a new year resolution, go give your favorite distro a try! And if you have an NVIDIA card and even after following a random guide you get stuttering or lagging text in Electron apps, as i did, try the other repository for the drivers, thats what solved it for me.
Can anyone reading this really not understand why most people prefer gaming on Windows and find Linux intimidating?
I totally get it, even for me, someone who is pretty tech-savy, it took around three attempts in the last three years to switch to Linux, and I’ve always given up until now.
But the issue is the reputation Linux gaming gets. I was convinced that I probably will have to dual-boot to play games, aside from a very small subset of games that may work. Every time I was trying to switch, I didn’t even get to try any games just because I kind of assumed that it’s going to be even bigger struggle than it was to get some of the tools I need to run, so I gave up.
But this time I gave steam a try, and was really surprised that so far, every game I tried running, including some with Easy Anti Cheat, I had almost zero problems, with the only outlier being the cutscenes.
Also, of course it’s not a lot easier to just use Windows and game on it, but you pay the cost of privacy and Windows stuffing ads into your face, using increasingly darker patterns to push their bullshit. So, I’m not looking for an easier way to game, but doing it to not let anyone use my habits and data out of principle. I’m already used to minor inconveniences attachted to it, such as lack of cookies so you have to relog, VPN breaking default language on sites, or some apps not working properly on my phone (GrapheneOS). It’s totally worth it for me, but it’s not for everyone.
So, my point was not to convince everyone that Linux is better for gaming. But to let people like me, who would like to try switching are afraid that they will still have to dualboot for most of the games, know that’s not really the case novadays, and that Linux is perfectly fine for gaming.
Is this from Steam Review? Because mine doesn’t have that part.
It might not show up if you only play on one device.
Ah I see, thanks for the reply! Guess I can proudly say 100% Penguin then. :)
I’m waiting for the open razer project to support my mouse before I fully switch. I’d do it myself but I don’t have the time these days.
Mine has some windows time from testing someone’s computer after reinstalling.
I think it’s interesting most of your play time is on the Steam Deck, but you play a bunch of games on Linux. Are you just testing settings then?
I think it’s a lot of the same game on both, but some I only played on the deck. Some I switched back to desktop for sections where inconsistent frame rate was wrecking me like GoW Valkyries. Dave the diver was entirely deck. Also have a laptop but vulkan support is incomplete on haswell so some games were launched and crashed if they didn’t have opengl.
The issue has never been that games can’t run on Linux. It has always been a simple question of “will the games I want to play run?” More than ever, that answer is yes, but if your favorite game doesn’t, or if you never want to worry about “will this upcoming (online) game let me play on Linux?” then you use Windows by default.
Like, I love y’all, but the Linux gaming community on Lemmy is kinda insufferable with the straw-man “people think games can’t run on Linux” argument. That’s just not the issue
This has been my concern too. It’s great that we’re seeing some specific cases where Linux benchmarks faster than Windows, but that doesn’t mean a damn thing if the one thing I’m trying to play just full on won’t work.
Telling me that I can just also run Windows is counterproductive. If Windows will do everything I want, and Linux will do only some of what I want, now you’re trying to sell me on increased complexity and difficulties and learning a whole new system, without actually getting rid of the problems that come with running Windows in the first place.
I mostly play old games that struggle even in windows sadly. I’ll probably need a windows machine or VM until I die.
Compatibility with old games on linux is great, much better than it is for newer games. Those 2010 and earlier (all the way back to windows 95 or so) games that have trouble on Windows 10 generally work better on Linux than on Windows 10.
For dos games you’d use dosbox on both Windows and Linux so the experience is mostly identical.
You also get quality of life stuff such as: if a game starts at 640x480 on your 4k monitor, it doesn’t change your desktop resolution to 640x480, it just gets scaled up to the full screen.
Specifically check out the Lutris software: it has integrations to install and run your old games from GOG or the original discs onto Linux.
Funny, I’ve actually never played BG3 on Windows. It’s always been Proton. It works flawlessly.
Building a machine that does everything is coming to a household near you! The rest of us, well we’ve been building custom gaming machines for one or two games for a long time.
The tooling is just getting better everyday. I don’t think Windows gaming will ever die but I think the experience has gotten bad enough that people have begun seeking alternatives. If this wasn’t true I don’t think that the SteamDeck would be so successful.
With that being said, I don’t tell everyone to try Linux. I do think that Linux is good for gaming but just hard to use for most gamers. I’ll probably buy a steam deck OLED in March just to “do my part” even though I have far too many custom machines and not enough time to enjoy playing the games.
The only game I play on Windows nowadays is Rocksmith 2014. That’s because, due to the nature of the hardware, it is a bitch to setup even on Windows. Proton just isn’t having any of it.
I’m at 50 / 50. Went 100% Linux 6 months ago and never looked back. Didn’t even bother with dual booting, it’s all in or nothing.
One of us! One of us!
Windows is an abomination.
I didn’t get the “You played on more than 1 device”. Guess it has been 100% Linux
