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DirigibleProtein, do gaming w Best Linux Distro For Playing On Steam?

I found that Steam ran flawlessly on both Fedora and openSuse. I’ve played Age of Empires II, Half Life, Half Life 2 etc, Skyrim, Firewatch; all with no problems.

Willy, do gaming w Best Linux Distro For Playing On Steam?

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p5yk0t1km1r4ge, do games w Been playing FF7 Rebirth (35 hours in) and really not enjoying it. Does anyone else feel this way?
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I feel like some people just say this out of spite because they don’t like that the game was remade. My dude you spent 35 hours on this game. Who are you trying to fool?

CaptainBasculin, do gaming w Best Linux Distro For Playing On Steam?

Using NVidia GPU? Use Pop OS. Managing drivers is really easier on it.

Anything else and whatever looks good to your eye.

Eeyore_Syndrome,
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CosmicCleric, (edited ) do gaming w Best Linux Distro For Playing On Steam?
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Fedora/KDE (on all AMD hardware).

No brainer, everything just works.

And for those games that aren’t Steam based, I use Bottles, and then use the feature inside a Bottles that adds the game to my Steam library, so they can be launched directly from Steam.

Fedora seems to have the best support for hardware, of all the distros that I’ve tried.

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/legalcode.en

Eeyore_Syndrome, (edited ) do gaming w Best Linux Distro For Playing On Steam?
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Technically speaking it is not a distribution.

“Bazzite is a custom image of Fedora Atomic Linux 40, utilizing Universal Blue’s custom image framework designed to bring users the best in Linux gaming for their PCs, including the Steam Deck and other handhelds.”

https://universal-blue.discourse.group/t/bazzite-3-0-announcement/1218

I’m too busy playing games and having no issues, to write why it’s amazing.

I am at 237 days with no issues, and that issue was Valves anyway.

Newsletter:

I used to write personal GitHub gists in the 6 years I’ve been using Linux/Fedora. To share with others to tweak their Fedora installs for gaming. Don’t have to do that anymore!

Thrickles,

Bazzite has been wonderful. I went in skeptical about immutable distris for gaming but Bazzite has been such a great experience.

simple, do gaming w Best Linux Distro For Playing On Steam?

Most distros are going to run games just fine, but if you want something specifically tuned for games I recommend Nobara Linux. It comes with everything you need out of the box.

sp6, do gaming w Best Linux Distro For Playing On Steam?

I would check the linux gaming wiki’s distro recommendations: linux-gaming.kwindu.eu/index.php?title=Getting_st…

Mint is fine for daily use type stuff, but there are some odd gaming bugs. IIRC Cinnamon (Mint’s default desktop environment) specifically has higher input lag than Gnome or KDE, and Lutris dropped official Mint support due to issues from Mint’s tweaks.

I personally use Pop!_OS and it’s been pretty good, although I have been a little frustrated about the 22.04 base, as I’ve noticed some packages (like Mangohud and GOverlay) are very out of date. But aside from that, I have no complaints.

laurelraven,

I will say, personally, I’ve noticed some odd behaviors that seem to be related to Cinnamon… Overall very good experience but definitely considering changing because of those issues.

Which makes me sad since I’m really liking it otherwise

Kory,
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To Cinnamon? What did you experience, please?

laurelraven,

The two I can think of offhand:

Trying to get Rocksmith 2014 to work with my Real Tone Cable, which I did have working for a while. Using Pulse Audio, the audio works perfectly except the game doesn’t see the cable, I suspect because Pulse is processing it like a microphone. The fix is to set Proton to use Alsa for audio and set Pulse to disable that device so it is available to the game. Now, when I launch it, the audio is horribly corrupted and the input from the cable is all over the place. This isn’t caused by Cinnamon because it happens in KDE too.

The part I suspect is a Cinnamon issue is the graphics flash in and out when I do that, and not just the game. I have 3 monitors and it happens on all three of them. KDE does not do this.

The second issue may be related to the first: sometimes when a program exits from a bad state, the icon in the task bar remains and the only way to get rid of it is to relog. This happens every time I exit Rocksmith if I click the button to close while the screen is blanked or partially blanked, but it’s not the only program I’ve had this happen with. I’ve also had it happen on two different taskbar panel apps, the default one and one I’ll have to go hop on my computer to give you the name of, though when I switched the default taskbar had a couple dead icons and they didn’t appear on the new one until the next time.

I’m not on the LTS kernel that ships with Mint, I had to upgrade to the current branch to get my video working.

I’ve not done much troubleshooting on the second, and my troubleshooting on the first is focused on solving the audio problem as I think the graphical problem will at least not be triggered once that’s working right.

I’ve also had other issues I’m not sure if they’re Cinnamon related, Mint related, general Linux related, or hardware/driver related, but I’ve had issues with the screens not sleeping while the screen is locked, and on a laptop the system not sleeping while on battery. I know suspend is buggy, but I’ve had it work properly on the same system with MX Linux (dual booting).

Kory,
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Thank you for elaborating!

catloaf, do games w Does wb get any money from sales of adult swim published games on steam?

I would be surprised if they didn’t.

CarbonatedPastaSauce, (edited ) do games w Does wb get any money from sales of adult swim published games on steam?

There are Adult Swim games?!?! Off to search and see what’s out there…

Edit: Easy peasy - store.steampowered.com/publisher/AdultSwimGames

LucasWaffyWaf,

Not for long. Iirc they’re planning on having them removed for purchase for good.

DudeDudenson,

Well if they don’t want your money anymore you might as well sail the high seas

Excrubulent,
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It’s fair to assume they won’t be getting updates, which are the big reason to buy rather than pirate anyway.

bionicjoey,

Jazzpunk is a banger of a game

pelletbucket, do gaming w WWII first person shooters

i remember playing Call of Duty after MoH:AA and being blown away by the graphics. i didn’t like any of the Modern Warfare stuff

Megaman_EXE, do gaming w Why are there two different genres both called ARPG?

I always referred to Diablo as an isometric RPG. At the end of the day, language is weird, and as long as we’re able to clearly get our point across to another person and have them understand, I think that’s all that matters. But it’s fun to think about

9cpluss, do games w Stellar Blade Review Thread

Unskippable cutscenes in Boss fights is such a middle finger to gamers.

geoma, do gaming w Taboo Question

Work your communication skills. Let her have gnu linux.

cujo,
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I’m not gonna coerce her into using Linux, lol. That’s a surefire way to make sure she hates it and blames any little hiccups on Linux, even if it’s not the OS’s fault.

geoma,

I have learned the hard way that insisting/coercing/whatever is a very bad strategy for spreading something that you think is better for the people/the planet. Anyway, what I do, is just say “I only work with libre systems because I have ethical guides” And, also because I cannot give you any support on windows, mac, whatsoever.

cujo,
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Doesn’t work so well when it’s your wife you’re telling “no, I won’t help you,” to. 😂

teawrecks, do gaming w Taboo Question

I know Sims 4 and Minecraft java edition ran fine on mac 10 years ago, so I would hope they still do.

Retrograde,
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Can confirm that Minecraft runs very well on ARM MacBooks

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