| ▲ | ugurcant 12 hours ago |
| I was in the same shoes, then one day I decided to give a shot to Bazzite. To my surprise the installation was extremely smooth, and everything worked right away. Now I’m playing almost everything on it (Arc Raiders, EU V, HLL and Horizon FW recently). If you want to _try_ all you need is 15 minutes, some HDD space and an empty USB. You don’t have to give up Windows at all, dual booting is also pretty smooth. |
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| ▲ | SparkBomb 7 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| Gaming on Linux is hit and miss, depending on the distro you use and your desktop environment. Some games should be launched with gamescope if you are using Gnome/GDM To have HellDivers run in borderless window on Debian 14. It required me to manually compile gamescope (wasn't that difficult but Valve's instructions are out of date), and use the backports on Trixie to upgrade the kernel to 6.16, and update wireplumber and pipewire (sound was flakey on some games). Kernel 6.16 performs much better than 6.12 just generally. All the Arkham games work perfectly. Doom Eternal has some weird latency in the mouse and aiming doesn't feel right. I could never get my Xbox One bluetooth controller behaving with Linux. I ended buying a 8bitdo Xbox style controller which works perfectly. It is much better made than the Xbox controller and roughly the same price. |
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| ▲ | LooseMarmoset 4 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | A few games I've tried required a little fiddling to work correctly. Some of these, like Dark Souls, required me to get a Windows patcher to run in linux to patch a windows binary, which required me to launch the patcher from Proton in Steam, and know where Steam installed the game. Not straightforward at all, but it can be done. I would not call it an experience for the average Windows gamer. Some of the latest shooters, will get you banned because anti-cheat. That said, there's nothing in my library (180 games!) that doesn't run in Linux, and I have a number of games that you can't even get to run in Windows at all anymore. I think the gaming community should all send Gabe Newell a Valentines Day card, or maybe a Christmas gift, or something. Seriously, the man has done so much for gaming, think of where we'd be without him. Windows App Store, Sony Game Store, walled gardens... | |
| ▲ | terribleperson 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | So to be fair about Helldivers, it doesn't even reliably work on Windows. I have to install a two year old AMD driver to get Helldivers to recognize my GPU. | | |
| ▲ | SparkBomb 6 hours ago | parent [-] | | I've had zero issues on Windows. None at all. I have a AMD GPU. Linux issues have been poor performance generally. Once I installed kernel 6.16 that was fixed. |
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| ▲ | crowbahr 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | That's why the correct choice is Bazzite | | |
| ▲ | SparkBomb 6 hours ago | parent [-] | | No the correct choice is what I want to use and it is Debian. Distro-hopping doesn't fix your problems and you will end up with either the same issues or more issues by distro-hopping. I use my Linux machine for things other than games and I am not moving to "distro of the week" to run one game. | | |
| ▲ | tapoxi 5 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | That's fair but Debian is shipping you multi year old packages when you want the latest drivers and mesa for games. Bazzite has those, and you can just jump into a Debian Distrobox for development. | |
| ▲ | LooseMarmoset 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Usually Debian testing will get you where you need to go with Steam and gaming. The stable branch won't git r dun for you usually. |
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| ▲ | gpderetta 12 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| I have a bazzite box connected behind my TV. Even with a non optimal choice of graphic card (an old Nvidia) it works better than I was expecting. |
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| ▲ | Whinner 11 hours ago | parent [-] | | I also bit the bullet and did a bazzite install and am blown away how seamless it has been for what I need. All the games I like run on Steam. Even Diablo 4 runs through the Blizzard launcher which does take some work to get installed, but nothing you can't find in a youtube video. No issues using the system as my daily driver for personal things. I have dual monitors, one oriented vertically and one 144hz. All works great! I'd recommend it to anyone | | |
| ▲ | aryonoco 10 hours ago | parent [-] | | The whole Universal Blue image ecosystem is so polished, consistent and coherent. Bazzite is their gaming image variant, I’ve also recently switched to Bluefin which is their Gnome variant on my workstation and everything works so nicely together, it’s the most joy I’ve had using a computer in a long time. |
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| ▲ | barbazoo 11 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| Loved the concept, tried it out, didn't work, at least not for RDR2 which I was trying to play. But how would it work, there is Linux, Bazzite, then there is Steam, RDR2 needs the Rockstar launcher, it's such an intricate web of dependencies, I'm not surprised something isn't working. |
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