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Originally posted by HEL88
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Not true. distros aren't supposed to work on any hardware, no OS does. Windows doesn't work on any hardware, it only works on hardware that was made by the manufacturer to run Windows. Good luck installing Windows on a chrome book, or macOS on any non-mac machine. If you want the premium Linux desktop experience just buy a computer made by its manufacturer to run Linux. If you don't do that and instead run Linux on a non-supported hardware then do it at your own risk and stop complaining about it in the forums. -
Can concur, it's the textbook definition of a troll, so sadly the only wise thing to do is completely ignore the comments, maybe one day (s)he'll become mature enough for constructive exchange, we can only hope.Originally posted by CochainComplex View PostComment
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It's shocking how good gaming has become on Linux. Obviously not 100% but, it's like Linux gaming took a complete 180 degree turn. When I buy a game I don't even check to see if it's compatible or not I just buy it. That would not have happened two years ago. Even a buddy of mine switched because his game kept crashing under Windows. I can tell you there is no way in Hell that would have happened two years ago. The computing world is turning upside down, it's mind blowing. I'm serious when I say, "I'm gobsmacked."Originally posted by parad0x View Post
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"I have now been playing games only on Linux for a year, and it has been great.Originally posted by highball View Post
With the GPU shortage, I had been waiting for prices to come back to reasonable levels before buying a new GPU. So far, I had always bought NVIDIA GPUs as I was using Windows to run games and the NVIDIA drivers had a better “reputation” than the AMD/Radeon ones.
With Valve’s Proton seriously taking off thanks to the Steam Deck, I wanted to get rid of the last computer in the house that was running Microsoft Windows, that I had kept only for gaming.
[...] (January 2023), I finally decided to buy an AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT GPU card.
What a delight. Nothing to setup, fully supported out of the box, works perfectly on Wayland. Valve’s Proton does wonders. I can now play on my Linux box all the games that I used to play on Windows and they run perfectly. Just from last year, I played Age of Wonders 4 and Baldur’s Gate 3 without any major issue, and did it pretty close to the launch dates. Older titles usually work fairly well too.
Sure, some games require some little tweaks, but it is nothing compared to the horrors of managing a Windows machine. And some games require tweaks on Windows as well (looking at you Cyberpunk 2077). The best experience is definitely with games bought on Steam which usually work out of the box. For those where it is not the case, protondb is usually a good source to find the tweaks needed to make the games work. I try to keep the list of tweaks I use for the games that I play updated on my profile there.
[...] Besides Steam, I use Bottles, Cartridge and Heroic Games Launcher as needed (all as Flatpaks). I have not looked at Origins or Uplay/Ubisoft Connect games yet.
According to protondb, the only games from my entire Steam library that are not supported are mostly multiplayer games that require some specific anti-cheat that is only compatible with Windows."
-- https://tim.siosm.fr/blog/2024/01/03...nly-gaming/Comment
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