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And how many run on linux via a well documented way?
I've been playing around with bazzite a bit, and for sure, i can run a lot of games on it, but you often end up googling which launcher to use, which settings to use, ... And then even if you find something, it doesn't always work.
Linux is making good progress in this regard, but this title feels a bit over optimistic (or at least, users who take it at face value will quickly be disappointed when they can't get 90% of their games to work).
Please let me know if you find good documentation. I want to make the jump off of windows, but honestly I'm scared it will just cause a ton of frustration
It’s very strange.
Most games will just launch, no problems. But then you’ll get one title like the above poster has, that just refuses to launch no matter what you do.
Most of the times there’s a work around on ProtonDB that will get you running in a few minutes. But sometimes it feels like, or is the case, where the developers actively prevent the game from launching on Linux.
Yeah but the same happens on windows, often times with no way at all to play the title without a VM
I am genuinely interested in helping here, can you list a few titles here?
Also the whole compatibility statistic is a misnomer, not accounting for windows games and applications that are now only supported with Wine and Proton. Windows 11 doesn't have 100% windows compatibility either.
Lots of off topic comment threads so I don't mind adding my own: going to make the Linux dive here soon and just had a general question on VR. I recently got a mostlySteam setup (sensors / controllers) with a Vive Pro 2 headset. Overall is VR supported? Is it limited to certain headsets? I was thinking of getting a Bigscreen Beyond 2, if that makes a difference. Any info appreciated.
Well, I'm 90% proud of Linux!
I use a quest 2 headset through my desktop via desktop streamer into steam VR into VRchat. Would this all work on linux? it's already a pain on windows.
I think virtualdesktop works, but don't quote me on that.
I think it used to work officially, but last I heard they dropped official support.
I'm installing Mint for the first time at this very moment. So far, it's easier than I anticipated. Fuck You Microsoft.
Edit: bro, firstly, what the fuck and where did all this performance come from?!?! I vastly underestimated how many resources windows was hogging. I downloaded Steam (easy-peasy) and then Project Zomboid just as a test. This game runs like butter now. I was having major problems with it before. To the point I basically stopped playing. I know its just one example but I haven't had my machine run this well in several years, I feel. Also, got Spotify running. Super easy. I need to figure out how to get my VPN set up (ProtonVPN) but so far, I'm kind of in shock. I can't wait to actually dig in and see what I can do with this new setup.
Windows 10 did that to us. My work workstation and my wife's laptop suffered with W10, so I searched alternate OS and found Linux. Luckily our CAD software had a Linux version and I got productivity back.
My wife's 2010 laptop on w10 was not usable. Its super fast with Linux. Faster than my work issued brand-new Lenovo laptop with W11. The only performance problem would be rendering video or other hardcore tasks.
Protonvpn has a flatpack. Check your distro's app store for it.
BASH will be your best friend for any Linux distro.
Ill definitely look into this.
need some support from anti-cheat
its fine, cause no user program should run in the kernel. unless its a driver.
if i cant run something at linux i'll just do without it. Might try virtual machine if its something really crucial but might not care to even bother. Fortunately any games i know that will not run are kind of games that i wouldnt want to touch anyway.
That's what I've done. I have a windows VM but I don't even bother spinning it up anymore
I have a 3090 and heard nvidia gpus dont do very well for Linux gaming if anyone wants to quell my fears and get me off Windows
I'm on a 5090 and bazzite has (in the majority of games and apps) just worked.
I have a brand-new lenovo workstation with an nVidia RTX card. Works great. Vulcan calculates the shader cache on first run of a game that takes a minute to run through, but after that the game runs great. I'm on tumbleweed, the only issue I had past week was kernel moved ahead but the nvidia driver wasn't ready right away. Just meant booting the old kernel in the boot menu till that all syncs up
As long as you run the proprietary nvidia drivers, performance is more or less noise for a given driver version. There IS some annoyance with slower releases for drivers to Linux but... nvidia has had much bigger problems with new driver releases over the past year.
The big issue is if you run the open source community drivers. And... if you are spending leather jacket money and then using low performance drivers... you are an idiot. Because Mistah J already has the metrics and money he wants and doesn't care if you actually use your card after buying it.
I have a 3070 and it runs the majority of games better than windows. The "Nvidia doesnt work good for linux" statement has become dated. Nvidia has become much better about giving support to other platforms, I think it has alot to do with being flexible for the ai market
I am a PC gamer and I exclusively use Linux. It's completely viable for gaming, I can say for a fact.
me since dec 2024, i usually use Linux for gaming(thank you Valve for Proton) but i may still spin up a Windows VM to flash roms to my Samsung Phone(grimlers fork sucks).
apps are also pretty alright on Linux but would love this area see some improvement.
i also feel like FOSS works the best on Linux cause duh Linux itself is foss, incl apps.