I do a bit of coding but I mostly use my pc to game tbh hahaha, Deep rock Galactic is what I'm obsessed with right now
this post was submitted on 15 Jun 2023
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I have been gaming on Linux since 2017, and it is super super viable now. Did you know that over 70% of the top 1000 games on Steam are playable on Linux?
I completely switched to Linux in 2015. I'd definitely call myself a gamer. I don't buy AAA games at release too often, but I sometimes do. I play games for several hours a week. So yeah, probably that makes me a gamer. Nowadays gaming on Linux works great 80-90% of the time. Proton on Steam has massively improved the experience. The only stuff that still regularly causes problems are anti-cheat systems for some multiplayer games. Otherwise gaming on Linux feels almost the same as on Windows.
Oh yes, there are gamers. I play Apex, Titanfall 2, Hunt Showdown. Sometimes Overwatch.
Very few games have not worked at all. R6Siege is a popular stickler that still doesn't work (even though it could if the devs let it, it starts up and runs training just fine).
Valve has certainly given linux a boost with the SteamDeck and all the work they've funded to make it a viable gaming platform. I just hope they release SteamOS for all platforms soon, maybe we'll see an uptick in PC pre-builds with SteamOS as an option instead of just Windows.
Seems pretty great to me. Yes, it is and will probably always be at least a bit worse than on windows, but definitely not enough to actually use windows. I'm really happy with the way it's going. The enjoyment linux brings for me FAR outweighs the cons. That is not gonna be the case for everyone and that's fine too.
I fully switched to Linux ~3 years ago and at the beginning I was worrying about compatibility, but nowadays I don't really have to think about it anymore. I play AA games almost daily with both Steam and Heroic. Like others have mentioned, there are some games that doesn't work because of anti-cheats, but I think there are only a handful of those anymore.
I recommend using an AMD CPU and GPU, but otherwise you can just assume a game works and it will most of the time. If it doesn't, there might be some quick fixes, and if not then it's an unlucky one.
See ProtonDB.
I’ve been gaming on Linux since Proton first launched. It was good back then, and at this point I can play just about everything in my Steam library (nearly 1000 games). From indies to racing sims to triple a games. It’s great.
Anti-cheat is still hit or miss, but I don’t really play any multiplayer games, so that doesn’t affect me luckily.
I am both. And I have to say while many games with steam are download and play depending on your system os and gpu you will have various degrees of tinkering in order to get stuff running.
You either have to accept that you can't play every game or spend a lot of time getting them to work.
And multiplayer anti cheat games are very few that work.
I'm no hardcore gamer but game a lot.
I'm running Nobara KDE, almost any games I throw at it work with no tinkering. Just this afternoon I installed Lies of P demo from Steam, it worked OTT with zero glitch. I have a SSD with Win11 I haven't run in months lol.
I used to dual boot Linux & Windows, but these days, gaming on Linux works just fine. Granted, I don't play any hardcore multiplayer games that might have iffy anticheat or anything, but even modern games work with little to no issue.
I use Linux as my daily OS, for study and work. I primarily game on it as well!
Every game that I've tried on Linux runs smoother (less 1% lows) than on Wind0ws. I assume it's because of the bloat on win11, but then again I researched as much as possible to clean up and optimize win11. Still runs much better on Linux. I mainly play Apex Legends, and though I don't consider myself good, I was D3 in S15.
The biggest issue is dealing with the games that use Anti-cheat systems that put kernel-hooks on wind0ws, which can't be emulated.
That’s very cool! In general, assuming a game runs well through proton, how’s the gaming performance between Linux and the same hardware on Windows? (You mentioned 1% lows are better, but what about average?)
I’m not super familiar with proton so I would think running in proton has some performance hit; is this not the case?
It's quite viable at the moment, and with Wine, you can run many Windows programs, including games. Sometimes it even runs some old games much better than current Windows versions.
If the developers don't use DirectX for 3D API, then it's quite easy to port. At least Windows still has OpenGL and Vulkan, unlike MacOS. (Why did they axed those in favor of Metal?)
Fun fact, MoltenVK enables running Vulkan on macOS. It does so by forwarding Vulkan calls into Metal. There's a little bit of extra work involved in setting up the Vulkan instance under the hood, but it's otherwise easy to forget it's running on top of Metal. Granted, it would have been nice if Apple had just included native support for Vulkan out of the box.
I don't know where you draw the line for hardcore gamer but I play a lot of games and so does my friend, who is nontechnical and also plays on linux, and we both have very few issues and love the experience more than Windows. It really depends on what games you wanna play but there are very few games that aren't working OOTB. Protondb is a good site that I'm sure other people will link but if you're looking to switch I recommend taking a look at this site for the major games that will/won't work: https://areweanticheatyet.com/