No Stupid Questions @lemmy.world Mandy @sh.itjust.works 2mo ago

Is linux actually gaming ready or is it just not for me?

Ill keep it as short as possible, apologies if i keep rambling(ill put my specs at the bottom)

Over the last yew years, i have used quite a lot of distros, from mint (currently my main again), to manjaro to solus to endeavouros and more i cant remember, one thing they all (minus solus) had in commong (for me) was the fact that pc gaming...was horrible on them.

Many hours where spend getting different games to work, or rather trying to get them to work at all, most of them had failed, steam, lutris, default wine, no matter what has been used)

As an example:

Anno 1404 history edition (best anno, fite me), i bought it on steam, tried launching it, didnt work, tried several proton versions, didnt work, lutris, didnt work, i downloaded a crack to see, didnt work either, using a different file format, nothing.

Sometimes i was able to make it work, once and than never again, solus was the only one where anno 1404 worked out of the box, i managed to make it work in endeavouros once by installing two packages i could never find again. (most recently, i bought space marine 2, didnt work and keeps crashing no matter what i do9

But this was the best case scenario, games really work.

Is it just my hardware?

Am i using linux just wrongly for years?

Is it my fault?

Am i missing something?

My specs:

prebuilt desktop: Acer Nitro N50-620

memory 64KiB BIOS

memory 32GiB System Memory

memory 16GiB DIMM DDR4 Synchronous 26

memory 8GiB DIMM DDR4 Synchronous 320

processor 11th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-

bridge Intel Corporation

display TU116 [GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER]

storage Micron_2210_MTFDHBA1T0QFD

bus Tiger Lake-H USB 3.2 Gen 2x1 x

network Tiger Lake PCH CNVi WiFi

bus Tiger Lake-H Serial IO I2C Con

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I had a dual boot for six weeks this summer with Linux Mint. Approximately 2/3 of my games worked fine on Linux.

I had to troubleshoot it almost every time I booted up, though, which is why I reverted to Windows setup. I plan to go back when I get a new PC and I can run linux only on a machine, but I think it's fair to say that there are some hardware incompatibilities sometimes. I've also read that there are distros other than Mint that play nice with NVidia chips, so I'll probably go with one of those when I switch back to Linux.

Still, you can blunt most of the negative aspects of Windows by running O&O ShutUp.
- before i went to linux that was one of the several tools i used
  
  but im such a paranoid woman now that i just cant really bring myself to go back to windows
  
  linux also just feels nicer to use to me you know?
  
  Don't get me wrong, I loved Linux.
  
  I just hated having to troubleshoot almost every time I booted up my PC. It was abundantly clear there were hardware incompatibilities in my case.
  
  is the old shutup method still good to go for win 10?
  
  while i am always paranoid i am considering the switch fairly often recently
  
  Shutup still works but I wouldn't trust it to prevent all telemetry. I wouldn't trust Microsoft not to have other telemetry that's not part of their services that can be turned off.
  
  Just my 2 cents: I dual boot Windows and Linux. I only start up Windows when I want to play a game, use Linux Mint for everything else. Some games run perfectly fine under Linux (I play a lot of Factorio for example. No Mans Sky I've had no issues etc.) but some are just a pain. For those I switch to Windows and then immediately switch back when I'm done playing.
  
  It's not ideal but this way Windows has next to no information about me at least. And as times goes on I'm seeing more and more games running just fine under Linux. Maybe one day I'll be able to drop Windows completely.
  
  i never tried dualbooting ebfore
  
  two reasons mainly:
  
  i simply find it too bothersome
  
  im 100% certain ill screw something up
  
  It's simpler than you think. Watch a few YT tutorials on it and see if it's a good fit.
  
  This is the way to go if you're a gamer. It just didn't work in my specific case.

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