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I just wanted to game…

“No one is entitled to your time, lazy bum.”

“Of course poor porky is entitled to your time, even in the software you already paid for. Let the poor ads annoy you!”

How is Linux for gaming, anyway?

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How is Linux for gaming, anyway?

Terrific! Oddity here and there. I reserve Windows for those occasions, but usually it just means I won’t play the game if I have to switch to Windows to play it.

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Most games run on Linux now. You should check compatibility on WineDB and ProtonDB (if you’re using Steam) for the games that you play. I use Linux pretty much exclusively now that all of the games I play are compatible with Linux.

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If you’re using Steam is nearly perfect, less than one game out of twenty gives me problems. If you normally sail the high seas for your games things get a lot trickier. With a little tinkering I get get maybe 70% of my cracked games working.

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You should be able to add the cracked games to Steam as a non-Steam game and then use Proton to run it.

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I’ve tried that a bunch but can never get it to work. I did get proton working with Lutris though so upped the amount of games that work by a bunch. Still can’t get Horizon Zero Dawn working for some reason though.

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Steam Deck works because about 90% of the Windows library works out of the box.

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I’d recommend dual booting it and checking for yourself since you will never get a answer thats relevant to what you want to do or play.

Issues you may face

  • games you want to play may not run under proton or have annyoing issues

  • nvidia

  • certain hardware configs may cause issues

Many more i cant be assed to list. I love linux but you absolutely are going to run into obscure and annoying issues that can only be easily solved if you know linux well

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