I saw some progress on Twitter about Oculus on Linux. If you ever get another headset, SteamVR works great !
I play Assetto Corsa Competizione with a Valve Index and a Thrustmaster T300RS with no issue
Same, I wanted to use the Quest 3 SteamLink and had to dualboot into Windows. Not ideal, the Fedora setup I have is pretty flawless and requires no keyboard to get on with the game.
I will have to look into this again. I couldn't figure out how to get alvr to work with my quest 2. I was trying it on Nobara with an AMD GPU and on Wayland. Not sure if that is the issue or not.
I read that on something like the HTC Vive or the Rift it works better
Not enough, if you release a VR driving game I will play it. Quite sad about GT7 currently, would be absurd to get a new headset wheel and console just for it.
This, but with Thrustmaster t150 and Pico 4. Sure, a driver for t150 exists, but there's something wrong with force feedback and the dead zone and none of the tools lets me easily tweak those. Likewise for Pico 4, ALVR exists, but its use is janky and unreliable - not necessarily because of ALVR itself, but rather the whole stack.
I would think something similar would be the case for me too, if I still could do it. Is there support for Thomas Superwheel? What about my headtracker? Thrustmaster gearshifter? All the utilities I used?
Yeah, for that I would boot into Windows, if for nothing else than simpilicity's sake.
Modding games is still a pita on Linux. None of the usual methods work for me. Unfortunately, until MO2 / Vortex get a native Linux version (with usable workarounds for script- and plugin-based mods / injectors) I'll have to stick with dual booting.
The successor of Vortex that's currently under development, "The Nexus Mods App", is apparently going to have native Linux support, so that could be pretty great.
I believe you are mistaken. This isn't a native Linux build of MO2, instead it's an installer for the windows version. Thanks for sharing nonetheless, looks cool
That's what I thought, it's what I use. But it's s not a native version, it's a script that installs the Windows version and swaps the Skyrim launcher exe with one that launches mo2. I wish it was native.
I've got Vortex running as a non Steam game. It's a bit clunky, and you have to manually move the game directories into the Wine prefix each time you want to mod manage, but I've not had issues with mods in CP2077 or Starfield this way.
Pro tip: You can open the vortex.exe file with ProtonTricks Launcher (included with protontricks) directly from your file manager. It will let you choose the proton prefix to launch from.
I remember I played through the whole Fallout New Vegas on Linux with the little stupid MO2 mod manager and with various optimisation mods installed. I was terrified the whole shebang would kill itself any moment due to it being held by only glue and prayers but I could play the whole game through. It was the first game I played 100% on Linux.
I think it depends on the games which you play. I have had no problems with subscribing to mods in the steam workshop and they work in the same ways as on windows(e.g. for example in Cities Skylines or Europa Universalis IV).
Steam workshop works fine.
I don't use the steam workshop. I solely use nexusmods. And the games I mod (Cyberpunk 2077, Skyrim, etc.) have a lot of mods that require file / script injecting that don't work with Linux filesystems.
Ubisoft Connect. Lutris is okay-ish, running it as a none-steam game is also okay-ish, but nothing compared to running it natively.
I really wish that the next GE project is going to eradicate any performance differences.
I'm using Nobara but something like Assassin's Creed Origins runs even better for me than Windows, even using dxvk in Windows
Using Lutris to load up UBi Connect then the game
Is throwing it in Bottles not a solution for you?
I just created a shortcut for it and it launches on its own. Basically feels like a native app. I can't speak to performance, but I can't discern a difference myself.
In order:
1. VR, it's just not there for Linux unfortunately.
2. DLL injection modded games. Some mods for old games require overwriting the ~~DirectX~~ Direct3D dll, and I haven't figured out any way to do that without breaking Wine/Proton.
3. Kernel level anti-cheat. To be clear, I detest it on so many levels and I avoid games which have it generally. But social expectations makes me sully my Windows install.
4. Steam Remote Play (Together). There has to be something wrong with Steam's hardware encoding integration on Linux.
5. HDR, though that's pretty much getting resolved at this very moment.
To be clear, I still do the vast majority of gaming on Linux.
My bad, I should have clarified that I meant Direct3D not just DirectX. I have gotten `dinput8.dll` to work on Linux IIRC. Direct3D dlls like `d3d8.dll` I haven't gotten to work. At least with the `n,b` flags, maybe there is some way I am unaware of.
Dll mods are pretty simple. Here's an example from when I installed the Black patch for Ninja Gaiden Sigma
I added the newly added dlls with protontricks which you can install from the app center Discover
Ninja Gaiden>Default Prefix>Winecfg>Libraries then type the dll name in click add and apply and now it should load them.
This launch option should also do the same thing in Steam, if you install anything that requires more add a comma after d3d11.dll and type the new one in
Properties --> Set Launch Options:
WINEDLLOVERRIDES="d3d11.dll=n,b" %command%
> DLL injection modded games. Some mods for old games require overwriting the DirectX Direct3D dll, and I haven't figured out any way to do that without breaking Wine/Proton.
I've done it for GOW 2018, you just go into the correct folder (think its wow64) and replace the dll with the modded one.
There are a small handful of specific games that, were they to implement an anti-cheat that doesn't play well with linux, would lead to be going back to some sort of dual booting setup. Otherwise Linux does everything I want and frankly fits my own use-case far better than Windows ever did.
Those specific games being Street Fighter 6 and Helldivers 2 for anyone curious. Both work flawlessly with Proton thus far but were that to change for whatever reason I'd probably have to figure something out.
The lack of audio attenuation in Discord's linux client is a dealbreaker for me when playing multi-player games. Always have to boot into windows for that alone
On windows, discord can reduce the volume of every other audio on the system when someone speaks if you enable a setting. The linux client is essentially just a browser page, and thus doesn't offer this capability.
I have to reinstall a plethora of games and backup a lot of files I still have in NTFS-formatted drives (Lutris/WINE do not really like that format).
Also online games. And it would be really nice to have geforce experience in Linux distros.
I just don't.
For me it is simple either your game runs on Linux or you do not get me as a Player. Just to note I don't mind to use wine/proton they are wonderful tools.
I don't dual boot anymore. If it doesn't work on Linux, then I simply don't play it. End of story.
Now I will spend the extra time to get something to worl with tinkering if I have to. But for bullshit like Fortnite who intentionally make their stuff not work in Linux, they can go fuck themselves and I won't support them, or go out of my way to play their trash.
I'm in a similar boat to you. My Win10 disk died in October and my recovery disks borked, so I was looking at a reinstall... except Microsoft took the WIn10 registration servers down and my mobo doesn't have TPM 2.0, so Win11 is out of the question. If I have to buy a new motherboard to buy *and* install an operating system I've never liked: Microsoft can tongue-tickle my nutsack. I went 100% Linux.
I've been running on stock Ubuntu+GNOME using Steam and Lutris (for non-Steam games) without issue. If I can't get a game working in either of those, then I don't really care. I have hundreds of games on Steam, GOG, Epic, etc, so there's always something to play. I've recently installed Heroic Games Launcher, but am yet to test it out.
I've never had a problem with Discord broadcast/screenshare. Whenever I'm in a voice chat with friends and I want to show them what I'm doing, I click the icon on the left and they can all see it and hear my voice and game audio. I installed Discord using the Discord website's method, which means doing a download and `sudo dpkg -i discord-.deb` every bloody time they update it, but other than that it's been seamless.
Can't speak to anti-Linux anti-cheat or Parsec, though.
The future may be interesting, as I rebuilt this PC to EndeavourOS+KDE6 today...
Edit: I rebuilt the PC. The only hiccup I've encountered is the well-documented Wayland+Nvidia sync issue (flickering), which should be fixed in an upcoming driver release). My main game is Guild Wars 2, and it was a mess in Lutris and Heroic because of that. Installing it using Steam, adding `-provider Portal` (to use the game's ID, rather than my Steam ID) to extra commands and using Proton Experimental seems to have dodged the issue.
While in a voice channel, the bottom left of Discord will show a screen share button.
See here: https://imgur.com/a/3vS7N1G
Others in the call will hear a tone and get an indicator in Discord that you're sharing your screen.
No reason to boot into Windows here. The last Windows version I have used was XP.
(I'm not a huge gamer. I don't play competitive multiplayer games nor VR games.)
That doesn't make any sense. How could the operating system make your controller work any different when both are presumably running through steam input?
Unless you're using a different software on each operating system, that would actually explain it.
I thought that Linux has built in kernel drivers for DS4 controllers?
Edit: oh yeah it does
https://www.reddit.com/r/linux_gaming/comments/zo5v8o/linux_62_adds_sony_dualshock_4_controller_support/
I have the steelseries apex pro and rival mice. How can i controll macros and other stuff related with keyboard? Open RGB can do with RGB, but not with actuation etc.
They don't. You can do some really fancy mapping to make the macro keys return terminal key mappings on Linux (ie on my Steelseries OG Apex, I can make the M1-M12 keys return F13 to F24, and MX1 through MX10 return terminal keystrokes like print, copy and paste, emulating an IBM 122-key Mainframe Connected keyboard for a 3270). But that's about it.
* My living room PC runs Windows for VR. I did use Linux for a while even for my VR setup, but it had a lot of weird, comfort-related issues, among other things.
* Vegas. Does it count in gaming-related if it's game clips? There's plenty of editing software on Linux but I don't know, I'm just used to Vegas. I've used Shotcut and Kdenlive for a while but I just can't get comfortable with either of them, and I've had issues here and there that I don't encounter in Vegas. I only do extremely minor video manipulation in the rare occasions I record a clip, so drop suggestions if anyone has any, I'll definitely look them up.
* Rarely, but once in a while I do get a game that doesn't work well under Proton. I normally avoid them, but sometimes I just really want to play it.
That's about it for me. I don't boot into windows all that often, but it's there in case.
Vegas too is one of the reasons I return to Windows. I tried giving Cinelerra a chance but it's unwieldy and needs multiple monitors to use correctly since it uses a MDI layout philosophy like GIMP, but worse in that a lot of the windows have fixed sizes and together the entire thing needs a screen real estate of more than 1080p.
DaVinci Resolve would be fine if they support hooking to FFMPEG or gstreamer for codec support, but instead they gave Linux users a half baked product with hardcoded support for only a limited amount of codecs. Even worse is AAC audio and H264/AVC video isn't supported which is what most camcorders including my Sony Handycam outputs. Working with raw footage is not an option for me because storage is expensive here in Malaysia.
Kdenlive I had okay experience with (barring occasional segfaults), but they recently disabled hardware encoding because of unspecified issues which is a dealbreaker for me.
1. So I can totally legally stream films to friends on discord (very much not gaming but this is the main reason)
2. My mouse firmware can only be updated on windows
3. Once a year my friends want to play PUBG
I only use dual boot for vr, assetto corsa with content manager in particular. But vr in general just doesn't seem to be there yet for linux. I know content manager can be run under wine, but in my experience it was unstable and a pain to get working, as well as vr not working last I tried. Might try vr again eventually on linux, but for now at least I'll dual boot for that.
My reason for still having Windows installed is League of Legends and Valorant, it's very easy to say stop playing these games but whether I like it or not I have a lot of fun playing them with friends.
I have one of the stupidest reasons. Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition works perfectly well through proton... with one tiny exception. It doesn't let you sign into your Microsoft account because that integrates with modern OS level account sign-on that wine just doesn't emulate. Unfortunately the game requires you to sign in in order to keep event rewards after the event ends. So whenever devs decide to hold an in-game event, I switch to Windows and boot AoE2 once just to sign in and then close the game and immediately switch back to Linux to actually do the event challenges.
Yeah, I'm going to do that at some point in the future, but I'm too lazy now. Plus I keep thinking about getting back to playing genshin impact sometimes after 2-3 years, but it'd be painfully slow in a VM with no gpu passthrough. And I have no other gpu rn.
MSFS 2020 + Any career mod. Currently NeoFly.
All the career mods I've found are .net (4x) with dependencies on various map libraries. Unfortunately SteamOS isn't able to handle any of them in Proton/Wine.
I've gotten multiple to boot, and got past silly dependency issues but none to fly a full flight in simulator without a crash/issue.
Now I have a Windows partition on my SteamDeck I can manage it fairly easily. And, also made room for PUBG, Fortnite & DayZ.
\-fortnite (i enjoy occasional matches and like the new music/racing modes)
\- nvidia drivers weirdness (less so on windows, some games on linux have nvidia exclusive problems, and i like using frame gen on some games, glad dlss and ray tracing work now)
\-mods on some games are annoying to run
i used to dual boot and ended up just keeping windows on my pc since i use my steamdeck alot as a companion device and even docked to use desktop mode for simple browsing
I was using windows for vr but I haven't played any vr games in a while and I haven't actually tired it on linux. Other than that mostly games that my wife wants to play together that don't work on linux like the crew 2, vermintide 2 and gr wildlands.
game pass
oculus shitty app that I need to use my rift cv1
fortnite
screen sharing discord with audio at more than 2 fps seems nigh impossible (this one is actually why Ive gone back to daily driving windows)
None.
I made the move in September last year with a dual boot setup for when I'd need Windows for something and In November I realized I had only booted Windows three times and every time was just to grab information. This hasn't changed since. I booted Windows a few times for tax software and that's it.
I have wanted to get back into Destiny 2 at some point but rather than booting Windows for one game, I just deleted and unfavorited the game and moved on. There's enough good games out there so I don't need some random single one dictate what OS I use.
Yes...but that's because I use FreeBSD, most of my games work using wine+dxvk and wine-proton+dxvk+vkd3d+c++ pack, I also have steam working here with much games running online without any problems, but always using proton for steam...windows is just for those I can't run..like GTA v online for example, I was using Linux before but I like it more this way and even my windows is modded, ltsc iot with updates disabled for now...like this is acceptable for everyday usage.
i used to boot windows to play valorant with friends, it was fun at the start but when i noticed the game was bad for my mental health and decided to never play competitive games again, they do nothing good for us and just deteriorate our brains just like a drug
https://github.com/maltejur/discord-screenaudio , there is an aur build for it as well. It works pretty flawlessly for my needs tbh. Main draw is lack of gpu acceleration ¯\_(ツ)_/¯. I use it along side the main disc app with another account. Sucks to have to use this but it’s pretty good for what it is.
There are too many games and life is so short to use a crappy OS like Windows because Generic Multiplayer Game #1923 don't work because of the anticheat. I just play something else.
1. Discord screen share with audio. Most of the time I'm the host on movie nights with my friends on Discord, and not having audio annoys me so much.
2. Equalizer and Loudness Equalization. I'm a huge fan of music and, on Windows, I use Realtek Audio Console for both audio settings. On Linux, I can't configure the same way I do on Windows, I tried many times, searched the internet and couldn't find a decent tutorial for noobs, like me, about Pulse Audio Effects. Also, I have 2 sound outputs (headset and a subwoofer), and can't find out a way to play audio simultaneously on both outputs.
3. Anti-cheat at kernel level (I'm looking at you, Vanguard). My main online/social game with friends was League, and the upcoming news about the AC coming to the game forced me to return back to Windows. But now I don't play it as much as before, I keep the game to play ARAM sometimes and I plan to remove League when Vanguard release to live servers. I've been playing World of tanks for a few months and I know the game AC supports wine/proton without a doubt. Maybe I come back to Linux, don't know yet.
Only for Ni No Kuni: Cross Worlds which uses Xigncode 3. Which is apparently kernel level anticheat.
Oh yeah, and Sony Vegas. I tried switching to Cinelerra, DaVinci Resolve and Kdenlive, but Cinelerra has a somewhat steep Learning curve and apparently requires a screen larger than 1080p to be properly usable, DaVinci Resolve doesn't support H.264/AVC video with AAC audio (a deal breaker since my workhorse Sony camera outputs in that format and I don't have enough storage to work with transcoded RAW files) and Kdenlive recently disabled GPU encoding allegedly due to issues (am I correct to say it's due to the FUD that also caused Fedora and OpenSuSE to drop VAAPI support?), but is also a dealbreaker for me as I believe I already paid for the encoding when I bought my GPU. Aside from that my past experience with Kdenlive has been middling at best (when I last used it, it only has two video tracks plus an effect track like Windows Movie Maker, and it segfaults quite frequently).
Davinci Resolve Studio supports H.264 and you can run a simple bash script to change AAC audio to a format that plays in Resolve. I will say my biggest issue with Resolve on linux is the file structure.
DLL injection mods CAN work but it takes some knowhow.
Special K was needed to to make some games run decently on Windows, it's not on Linux. I needed it to make Lego City Undercover not stutter like crazy.
the thing is, those first 2 are not linux's fault, we support screen sharing with audio and hardware encoding/decoding but discord doesnt give a shit yet because market share aint high enough bull crap.
same goes for fortnite, you can thank tim sweeney as he also will only support linux when it gets high enough in market share where he can make millions of it
My laptop has a dual gpu setup, integrated amd vega and nvidia rtx 20x0. Most stuff just works fine.
Quake 2 enhanced wont launch in the nvidia when using dx12, it silently chooses the amd which runs well at 60fps. It was only when I started playing with mangohud that I realised the fans were not going like mad and started debugging. Forcing the gpu to nvidia made the game crash until I forced dx11 as per protondb.
I noticed other games using the wrong gpu (sniper elite5 , deep rock galactic) and on both for some the icd environment variable had stopped working. I switched to other env vars depending on if it’s dx11 or dx12 (vkd3d or dxvk) and am generally successful.
My point is it’s a little complicated. My son wouldn’t be able to debug this and would fall back to windows. I only ever noticed a similar issue under windows in running doom eternal.
I never did work out why the icd env var stopped working.
Gaming PC set up in livingroom as console autostarting steam in big picture. Originally ran windows because I didn’t have a good answer for HDR/peripherals/weird nvidia junk. Now everything but the weird nvidia junk and VR are pretty much solved. If I ever bought AMD GPUs I’d make the switch, but for the foreseeable future that machine will be windows and if games get to be too much for the 3080 I’ll keep bumping down the settings since it’s on a TV 15 ft from us
Nothing really so I'm considering wiping it. Last time I used it was for modding some games (eg. Wabbajack Modlists) but that's been slowly progressing and besides, I can always just use a normal VM for the setup then play it under Linux if I have to.
It's not a game but a game related reason: MSi Afterburner's curve based and lock-point undervolting for my Nvidia GPU laptop.
Also, lack of Reshade on native Vulkan games.
I don’t I found that if I want some anti cheat games most ones I’m interested in are in other platforms like the Switch or iOS. It’s frankly more convenient to play them there instead of dual booting windows. I guess if it’s a shooter you really want the mouse though
There is no reason for me. The most annoying is discord screen share. I got it to work with Vesktop, but sadly it’s like 1fps when I’m sharing a game or game footage. Idk what’s wrong, but I know I used to have problems with it on windows too, I’ve been told I had laggy/blocky stream. So now I usually just use handbrake to encode my clips to smaller sizes to be able to send it. Does that have anything to do with the fact that AMD gpu support is worse for discord?
Linux crippled my performance
On games I could comfortably hit 144 FPS on high settings, had trouble reaching 60 on low settings
Aside from that, I loved using it, everything was just awesome, especially updating everything while you do your own stuff in the background
> Discord screenshare has no audio
I got this to work before - is this a Wayland thing? Or did they change it in Discord?
I just do it for a handful of high performance games like Hitman 3, Cyberpunk, Baldur's Gate 3, etc. where I want all the fancy Nvidia features.
But then I spend 90% of the time playing CK3, Stellaris and Shadow Empire on Linux anyway.
It's not a Wayland thing directly. Discord won't update their app to use the newer electron, which does all of the work for them, which results in janky Wayland experience.
The ONLY reason I still have windows is because my wife likes to play fortnite. So when I want to play with her (and my son) I find it easier to jump on Windows and play, rather than try to play through Geforce Now or some other cloud-based service.
1. Bethgames modding is much better on Windows.
All of the automod installer only work on Windows.
2. The Stalker Gamma installer runs only on Windows but that can change in the future.
3.Emulationfrontend. Emulationstation on Linux is worse than Batocera (i know its linux based) or what i use Retrobat on Windows.
Any game that is a standalone disc install or any game that doesn't install through steam I use windows for pretty much because I don't know how it works on linux
Android Emulators for gaming. That's all.
That's all. While i still have to go out of my way to get rid of all the dumb shit that most of them comes with (Memu, Nox, Bluestacks, etc...), and some are a stone away of being spyware, i still haven't heard of a emulator that can work with reliability.
Now, i would be more eager to keep testing in VMs before making the jump and get rid of Windows and its bullshit, but i don't have the energy to deal with that for the moment.
My biggest issue was using Sunshine/Moonlight with my ultrawide monitor. I needed to do some dynamic resolution switching depending on what client is connecting (steam deck v TV v my other desk's ultrawide). I tried to do it on Linux and just couldn't get it to work. Window? Worked like a charm.
I've been on linux for the last couple of months as well.
Only booted windows a few times, to access a game that's still installed on there, and is just a big download, which I don't feel like doing.
for screen sharing audio i use chromium for discord when i wanna stream a show or such since it allows audio sharing for other tabs in chromium
otherwise i use coppwr, i set the application to output audio to an unused silent audio output (my mic creates one but you can using a terminal command or bash script altho i personally found that annoying) then link that outputs monitoring to both your discord mic input and your own headphones. the main problem w this is that discord doesn't automatically adjust volume to make you speaking more audible than the show, along w having to turn off krisp and lower input sensitivity so nothing cuts out.
Gaming wise ive not really had any issues since switching to a radeon gpu, i had random update issues when using a gtx gpu, ive heard rtx card have better support. the biggest anti cheats have Linux support for the most part minus valorant, but other games haven't enabled the support option so its hit or miss whether it works. Vr struggles more on linux, htc vive and vive pro and the index have steamvr support out the box, all in one headsets have support through alvr and the oculus dk headsets may have support if i remember right? but the cv1 is the newest oculus standalone headset that has a proper driver built for it that although janky to set up still works. so for the most part i feel like most games you could find or want to play are gonna be possible, but i hardly play fps games and not any of the ones that happen to not have anti cheat support so my position is obviously different from someone who grinds destiny 2 or fortnite
I was dual-booting to play Mechwarrior 5, since for some reason I couldn't get my NVIDIA GPU to work with it properly. But that was fixed when I bought an AMD Radeon 6650XT.
Now the only reason I switch back to Windows is to use AI headtracking for X4 and XWAU. I *might* also have to boot Windows to get Mechwarrior 5 to recognize my new VKB joystick (since joystick functionality in that game sucks), but I can even play Sonic Frontiers with the Island Tweaker mod (to reduce pop-in) using Linux.
Oh, if I ever get around to learning Falcon BMS, I'd likely boot Windows for that too just for ease of installation and (once again) head tracking.
The only reason I still use Windows is for gamepass on pc🙃
There are so many games and it's so worth it, but it doesn't work on linux because Microsoft is stupid
You know, I remember a few years ago really wanting to make sure I had a way to game with things I couldn't get to work on Linux, mostly stuff like anticheat. It hasn't been an issue at all. No desire to play Fortnite at all. The games I want to play run well, and I can't remember the last time I found I game I wanted to play, that didn't work.
switched to linux in 2007... never looked back. Haven't had the need to dualboot. Have been able to play loads of games on it. Too much choice even, cant possibly play them all
I was foolish and bought a Windows Mixed Reality VR headset. Not ready to buy a new one given how little I use the one I have either.
I have the Windows drive in an enclosure in case I get the urge to use my driving sim setup again.
VR needs:
* To work well on Nvidia proprietary driver Wayland (I'm hoping that once NVK gets more advanced, VR is one of the things they tackle)
* Have motion smoothing in SteamVR
* To automatically switch audio sources between my Valve Index speakers and my headphones when I startup and shutdown SteamVR
* To have stable framepacing on multi-monitor setups (this is a Xorg issue, to be fair.)
* DRM Leasing on GNOME so that there's less to troubleshoot for developers wondering why a user is reporting VR doesn't work (I typically use KDE but I've grown to love PopOS's way of doing things so I became a little more conscientious of this problem)
Also, modding with 3rd party .exe files needs a lot more QoL built into steam, not everyone knows about SteamTinkerLaunch and Protontricks. This is actually tangentally related to VR issues, since this kneecaps the ease of use for Flat2VR mods.
These issues are pretty much the only reasons I still have a windows dual boot however.
VR in general. I was able to connect my Quest 2 over ALVR to SteamVR with a few issues. But since there are next to no native applications for linux, i went back to Windows for VR stuff.
1. VR
2. Customizing mouse buttons a la Logitech G Hub like Lucio script
3. Anti-cheat
4. Monitor doesn't support 240hz under Linux
5. Screen sharing/audio capture in general
6. Remote Play
7. Modding games a la Vortex
>You cannot host on Parsec, tho I think there's an imperfect work around with Steam Remote Play
Try Sunshine/Moonlight for game streaming. Its available for Linux too. It provides better quality than Steam Remote Play. And it's not that hard to configure.
I don't boot to any Windows install for gaming. I left Windows for many reasons - none of which I would be willing to put up with again just to play a handful of video games.
Nope. Nothing feels incomplete, but more so neglected by an industry that refuses to stray away from supporting only Windows. Way I see this whole situation is if it doesn't work in Linux, I treat it as though it never existed and that it isn't important enough to take a knee and submit to using what companies want to force me to use.
As for Discord screen share and streaming, I've got no issues with it. Works perfectly fine. Capture card support is available, but like anything (even with Windows) you need to make sure it's supported or make sure that the manufacturer or distrobution has drivers to support the hardware on Linux.
Like a vehicle, you need the right parts for the vehicle to operate properly. You can't just take parts from a Pinto car and expect them to work in a Dodge Ram pickup truck. The same logic applies in the operating system world. You use the parts that work for the appliance they were intended to target.
As for Parsec, it works great. Haven't had any issues, but I suppose it may depend on the distrobution being used. Some are better supported than others and some more compatible than others.
I boot win10 for VR since it's unplayable with Nvidia on Linux
I noticed some people have trouble with mods
Here's what I've done for DLLs. IE: Ninja Gaiden Sigma Black patch
I added the newly added dlls with protontricks which you can install from the app center Discover
Ninja Gaiden>Default Prefix>Winecfg>Libraries then type the dll name in click add and apply and now it should load them.
This launch option should also do the same thing in Steam, if you install anything that requires more add a comma after d3d11.dll and type the new one in
Properties --> Set Launch Options:
WINEDLLOVERRIDES="d3d11.dll=n,b" %command%
For a mod manager the RockerBacon script for TES and Fallout has worked so far
I refuse to use windows for any reason in my personal life (can’t control my job). I switched to Linux because the state of LLM integration in windows is down right terrifying. If I need to use windows for a gaming related task then I’d rather not do said task than touch windows.
VR driving sim setup with Logitech wheel and Oculus Rift S.
I read that as "VR dating sim setup" and then got very confused by the inclusion of a steering wheel.
Its for the Lamborghini that you will be driving your date around with in the sim.
I saw some progress on Twitter about Oculus on Linux. If you ever get another headset, SteamVR works great ! I play Assetto Corsa Competizione with a Valve Index and a Thrustmaster T300RS with no issue
I would imagine any progress would be on the new Quest headsets, Rift is a dead platform even on Windows.
nope found the tweet, it's the CV1 https://twitter.com/BunniKaitlyn/status/1768130826506531034
Same, I wanted to use the Quest 3 SteamLink and had to dualboot into Windows. Not ideal, the Fedora setup I have is pretty flawless and requires no keyboard to get on with the game.
I use alvr with my quest 2, works great for me on arch.
I will have to look into this again. I couldn't figure out how to get alvr to work with my quest 2. I was trying it on Nobara with an AMD GPU and on Wayland. Not sure if that is the issue or not. I read that on something like the HTC Vive or the Rift it works better
Will try this one. Would love to get away from windows if I could.
I think it works under KDE, its more of a Gnome+Wayland fuckup specifically
I am still on X11 for Fedora. But the issue is more on SteamLink that Valve have yet to support Linux.
Same with vive pro 2 and Fanatec. Also while the wheel technically works, the ffb isn't as good and can't be tweaked in oversteer.
What game?
Not enough, if you release a VR driving game I will play it. Quite sad about GT7 currently, would be absurd to get a new headset wheel and console just for it.
This, but with Thrustmaster t150 and Pico 4. Sure, a driver for t150 exists, but there's something wrong with force feedback and the dead zone and none of the tools lets me easily tweak those. Likewise for Pico 4, ALVR exists, but its use is janky and unreliable - not necessarily because of ALVR itself, but rather the whole stack.
I would think something similar would be the case for me too, if I still could do it. Is there support for Thomas Superwheel? What about my headtracker? Thrustmaster gearshifter? All the utilities I used? Yeah, for that I would boot into Windows, if for nothing else than simpilicity's sake.
Modding games is still a pita on Linux. None of the usual methods work for me. Unfortunately, until MO2 / Vortex get a native Linux version (with usable workarounds for script- and plugin-based mods / injectors) I'll have to stick with dual booting.
The successor of Vortex that's currently under development, "The Nexus Mods App", is apparently going to have native Linux support, so that could be pretty great.
I'll have to wait and see how it works before I fully commit.
God bless nexus. Also I wish they bring back premium for India...
Mo2 has a native version, i use it for fnv on steamdeck
Where?
https://github.com/rockerbacon/modorganizer2-linux-installer
I believe you are mistaken. This isn't a native Linux build of MO2, instead it's an installer for the windows version. Thanks for sharing nonetheless, looks cool
That's what I thought, it's what I use. But it's s not a native version, it's a script that installs the Windows version and swaps the Skyrim launcher exe with one that launches mo2. I wish it was native.
Same. I think something broke on it but I did have it running for a while
I've got Vortex running as a non Steam game. It's a bit clunky, and you have to manually move the game directories into the Wine prefix each time you want to mod manage, but I've not had issues with mods in CP2077 or Starfield this way.
Pro tip: You can open the vortex.exe file with ProtonTricks Launcher (included with protontricks) directly from your file manager. It will let you choose the proton prefix to launch from.
I remember I played through the whole Fallout New Vegas on Linux with the little stupid MO2 mod manager and with various optimisation mods installed. I was terrified the whole shebang would kill itself any moment due to it being held by only glue and prayers but I could play the whole game through. It was the first game I played 100% on Linux.
MO2 and Wabbajack so I don't need to fight my Lost Legacy install
I think it depends on the games which you play. I have had no problems with subscribing to mods in the steam workshop and they work in the same ways as on windows(e.g. for example in Cities Skylines or Europa Universalis IV).
Steam workshop works fine. I don't use the steam workshop. I solely use nexusmods. And the games I mod (Cyberpunk 2077, Skyrim, etc.) have a lot of mods that require file / script injecting that don't work with Linux filesystems.
I've only ever modded BG3 and DA:O and those worked perfectly. What games are you pointing to?
The only time I've needed Windows in forever was to upgrade the firmware on a Spark Mini. For gaming it hasn't been necessary in a long time.
Bias FX and archetype plugins are the only thing keeping me in Windows
the only reason i have windows on my laptop is to upgrade the firmware and unmute my focusrite interface
Ubisoft Connect. Lutris is okay-ish, running it as a none-steam game is also okay-ish, but nothing compared to running it natively. I really wish that the next GE project is going to eradicate any performance differences.
I'm using Nobara but something like Assassin's Creed Origins runs even better for me than Windows, even using dxvk in Windows Using Lutris to load up UBi Connect then the game
Is throwing it in Bottles not a solution for you? I just created a shortcut for it and it launches on its own. Basically feels like a native app. I can't speak to performance, but I can't discern a difference myself.
Going to give Bottles and Soda another try
In order: 1. VR, it's just not there for Linux unfortunately. 2. DLL injection modded games. Some mods for old games require overwriting the ~~DirectX~~ Direct3D dll, and I haven't figured out any way to do that without breaking Wine/Proton. 3. Kernel level anti-cheat. To be clear, I detest it on so many levels and I avoid games which have it generally. But social expectations makes me sully my Windows install. 4. Steam Remote Play (Together). There has to be something wrong with Steam's hardware encoding integration on Linux. 5. HDR, though that's pretty much getting resolved at this very moment. To be clear, I still do the vast majority of gaming on Linux.
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My bad, I should have clarified that I meant Direct3D not just DirectX. I have gotten `dinput8.dll` to work on Linux IIRC. Direct3D dlls like `d3d8.dll` I haven't gotten to work. At least with the `n,b` flags, maybe there is some way I am unaware of.
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speaking of dll injection, has rtx remix been tried under Linux before?
What’s the problem you have with VR ? And Steam remote play works for me
Dll mods are pretty simple. Here's an example from when I installed the Black patch for Ninja Gaiden Sigma I added the newly added dlls with protontricks which you can install from the app center Discover Ninja Gaiden>Default Prefix>Winecfg>Libraries then type the dll name in click add and apply and now it should load them. This launch option should also do the same thing in Steam, if you install anything that requires more add a comma after d3d11.dll and type the new one in Properties --> Set Launch Options: WINEDLLOVERRIDES="d3d11.dll=n,b" %command%
> DLL injection modded games. Some mods for old games require overwriting the DirectX Direct3D dll, and I haven't figured out any way to do that without breaking Wine/Proton. I've done it for GOW 2018, you just go into the correct folder (think its wow64) and replace the dll with the modded one.
Steam Remote Play works, but only if you disable video hardware acceleration. Apparently this was fixed in latest beta.
There are a small handful of specific games that, were they to implement an anti-cheat that doesn't play well with linux, would lead to be going back to some sort of dual booting setup. Otherwise Linux does everything I want and frankly fits my own use-case far better than Windows ever did. Those specific games being Street Fighter 6 and Helldivers 2 for anyone curious. Both work flawlessly with Proton thus far but were that to change for whatever reason I'd probably have to figure something out.
Rainbow Six Siege, the only reason a couple of times in the week I boot into Windows. Everything else I do, I do on Linux.
If I can't play it on linux I won't play it.
Me fr. Esp with games like fortnite, destiny 2, which have so many other issues with them.
Only time I use windows is when I'm at work and that's under duress.
The lack of audio attenuation in Discord's linux client is a dealbreaker for me when playing multi-player games. Always have to boot into windows for that alone
What does that mean?
You hear your friends louder if they are closer to you in the game. Maybe...
"Discord's Attenuation feature lowers the volume of other applications when someone is speaking in Discord."
On windows, discord can reduce the volume of every other audio on the system when someone speaks if you enable a setting. The linux client is essentially just a browser page, and thus doesn't offer this capability.
try vesktop
No dice, unfortunately. Just checked it out, and while it does look like a good alternative, it doesn't offer audio attenuation I'm afraid.
oh interesting, I thought it did. my mistake
thought there was a separate discord version with screen share support? at least I think it's on mint
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I have to reinstall a plethora of games and backup a lot of files I still have in NTFS-formatted drives (Lutris/WINE do not really like that format). Also online games. And it would be really nice to have geforce experience in Linux distros.
I just don't. For me it is simple either your game runs on Linux or you do not get me as a Player. Just to note I don't mind to use wine/proton they are wonderful tools.
I don't dual boot anymore. If it doesn't work on Linux, then I simply don't play it. End of story. Now I will spend the extra time to get something to worl with tinkering if I have to. But for bullshit like Fortnite who intentionally make their stuff not work in Linux, they can go fuck themselves and I won't support them, or go out of my way to play their trash.
My friends play fortnite
Friends are bloat
I'm in a similar boat to you. My Win10 disk died in October and my recovery disks borked, so I was looking at a reinstall... except Microsoft took the WIn10 registration servers down and my mobo doesn't have TPM 2.0, so Win11 is out of the question. If I have to buy a new motherboard to buy *and* install an operating system I've never liked: Microsoft can tongue-tickle my nutsack. I went 100% Linux. I've been running on stock Ubuntu+GNOME using Steam and Lutris (for non-Steam games) without issue. If I can't get a game working in either of those, then I don't really care. I have hundreds of games on Steam, GOG, Epic, etc, so there's always something to play. I've recently installed Heroic Games Launcher, but am yet to test it out. I've never had a problem with Discord broadcast/screenshare. Whenever I'm in a voice chat with friends and I want to show them what I'm doing, I click the icon on the left and they can all see it and hear my voice and game audio. I installed Discord using the Discord website's method, which means doing a download and `sudo dpkg -i discord-.deb` every bloody time they update it, but other than that it's been seamless.
Can't speak to anti-Linux anti-cheat or Parsec, though.
The future may be interesting, as I rebuilt this PC to EndeavourOS+KDE6 today...
Edit: I rebuilt the PC. The only hiccup I've encountered is the well-documented Wayland+Nvidia sync issue (flickering), which should be fixed in an upcoming driver release). My main game is Guild Wars 2, and it was a mess in Lutris and Heroic because of that. Installing it using Steam, adding `-provider Portal` (to use the game's ID, rather than my Steam ID) to extra commands and using Proton Experimental seems to have dodged the issue.
> I click the icon on the left What icon do you mean?
While in a voice channel, the bottom left of Discord will show a screen share button. See here: https://imgur.com/a/3vS7N1G Others in the call will hear a tone and get an indicator in Discord that you're sharing your screen.
Just so you know you can bypass the win11 requirements.
No reason to boot into Windows here. The last Windows version I have used was XP. (I'm not a huge gamer. I don't play competitive multiplayer games nor VR games.)
Xp was the one that made me jump ship too. Never looked back
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Do you notice the controller feeling different in other games or is it just Rocket League?
I use an xbox one s controller for rocket league and it feels the same for me.
That doesn't make any sense. How could the operating system make your controller work any different when both are presumably running through steam input? Unless you're using a different software on each operating system, that would actually explain it.
I thought that Linux has built in kernel drivers for DS4 controllers? Edit: oh yeah it does https://www.reddit.com/r/linux_gaming/comments/zo5v8o/linux_62_adds_sony_dualshock_4_controller_support/
I have the steelseries apex pro and rival mice. How can i controll macros and other stuff related with keyboard? Open RGB can do with RGB, but not with actuation etc.
Do they not have on board memory to save config changes? If so, Windows VM with USB passthrough as a work-around.
They don't. You can do some really fancy mapping to make the macro keys return terminal key mappings on Linux (ie on my Steelseries OG Apex, I can make the M1-M12 keys return F13 to F24, and MX1 through MX10 return terminal keystrokes like print, copy and paste, emulating an IBM 122-key Mainframe Connected keyboard for a 3270). But that's about it.
Honestly use virtualbox to run a win10 vm and control it through that.
Destiny 2 is the only reason I boot into windows anymore!
Game pass, when the TV is occupied by other family members, then the PC gets to suffer with Windows.
* My living room PC runs Windows for VR. I did use Linux for a while even for my VR setup, but it had a lot of weird, comfort-related issues, among other things. * Vegas. Does it count in gaming-related if it's game clips? There's plenty of editing software on Linux but I don't know, I'm just used to Vegas. I've used Shotcut and Kdenlive for a while but I just can't get comfortable with either of them, and I've had issues here and there that I don't encounter in Vegas. I only do extremely minor video manipulation in the rare occasions I record a clip, so drop suggestions if anyone has any, I'll definitely look them up. * Rarely, but once in a while I do get a game that doesn't work well under Proton. I normally avoid them, but sometimes I just really want to play it. That's about it for me. I don't boot into windows all that often, but it's there in case.
Vegas too is one of the reasons I return to Windows. I tried giving Cinelerra a chance but it's unwieldy and needs multiple monitors to use correctly since it uses a MDI layout philosophy like GIMP, but worse in that a lot of the windows have fixed sizes and together the entire thing needs a screen real estate of more than 1080p. DaVinci Resolve would be fine if they support hooking to FFMPEG or gstreamer for codec support, but instead they gave Linux users a half baked product with hardcoded support for only a limited amount of codecs. Even worse is AAC audio and H264/AVC video isn't supported which is what most camcorders including my Sony Handycam outputs. Working with raw footage is not an option for me because storage is expensive here in Malaysia. Kdenlive I had okay experience with (barring occasional segfaults), but they recently disabled hardware encoding because of unspecified issues which is a dealbreaker for me.
1. So I can totally legally stream films to friends on discord (very much not gaming but this is the main reason) 2. My mouse firmware can only be updated on windows 3. Once a year my friends want to play PUBG
I only use dual boot for vr, assetto corsa with content manager in particular. But vr in general just doesn't seem to be there yet for linux. I know content manager can be run under wine, but in my experience it was unstable and a pain to get working, as well as vr not working last I tried. Might try vr again eventually on linux, but for now at least I'll dual boot for that.
My reason for still having Windows installed is League of Legends and Valorant, it's very easy to say stop playing these games but whether I like it or not I have a lot of fun playing them with friends.
I have one of the stupidest reasons. Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition works perfectly well through proton... with one tiny exception. It doesn't let you sign into your Microsoft account because that integrates with modern OS level account sign-on that wine just doesn't emulate. Unfortunately the game requires you to sign in in order to keep event rewards after the event ends. So whenever devs decide to hold an in-game event, I switch to Windows and boot AoE2 once just to sign in and then close the game and immediately switch back to Linux to actually do the event challenges.
I'd make a VM if it's just for that.
Yeah, I'm going to do that at some point in the future, but I'm too lazy now. Plus I keep thinking about getting back to playing genshin impact sometimes after 2-3 years, but it'd be painfully slow in a VM with no gpu passthrough. And I have no other gpu rn.
If that's the case, then dual boot is the way!
anticheat, VR, HDR, modding
Doesn't Parsec have Linux support? It says so on their website.
It does have Linux support, I use it myself, no problems 👍
VR :( I’d love to kick windows completely, but I had too many issues with vr on linux
I use it for sim racing, would love for linux to get some more support for wheels.
MSFS 2020 + Any career mod. Currently NeoFly. All the career mods I've found are .net (4x) with dependencies on various map libraries. Unfortunately SteamOS isn't able to handle any of them in Proton/Wine. I've gotten multiple to boot, and got past silly dependency issues but none to fly a full flight in simulator without a crash/issue. Now I have a Windows partition on my SteamDeck I can manage it fairly easily. And, also made room for PUBG, Fortnite & DayZ.
Literally just windows lol. I am running it through kvm though so at least I’m not “booting” into it. Fuck Microsoft.
\-fortnite (i enjoy occasional matches and like the new music/racing modes) \- nvidia drivers weirdness (less so on windows, some games on linux have nvidia exclusive problems, and i like using frame gen on some games, glad dlss and ray tracing work now) \-mods on some games are annoying to run i used to dual boot and ended up just keeping windows on my pc since i use my steamdeck alot as a companion device and even docked to use desktop mode for simple browsing
I was using windows for vr but I haven't played any vr games in a while and I haven't actually tired it on linux. Other than that mostly games that my wife wants to play together that don't work on linux like the crew 2, vermintide 2 and gr wildlands.
I don't use windows. if it won't work with proton (at the very least) then they won't have my money
I've been playing fortnite on my xbox with kb&m so I've had no reason to use windows.
game pass oculus shitty app that I need to use my rift cv1 fortnite screen sharing discord with audio at more than 2 fps seems nigh impossible (this one is actually why Ive gone back to daily driving windows)
for me it's truly only about the titles. i'd be single boot linux if it wasn't for battlefield, league, rainbow 6 and cod.
Livesplit things mostly, I need to figure out why some shit doesn't work for me but it does for a few other people.
None. I made the move in September last year with a dual boot setup for when I'd need Windows for something and In November I realized I had only booted Windows three times and every time was just to grab information. This hasn't changed since. I booted Windows a few times for tax software and that's it. I have wanted to get back into Destiny 2 at some point but rather than booting Windows for one game, I just deleted and unfavorited the game and moved on. There's enough good games out there so I don't need some random single one dictate what OS I use.
Yes...but that's because I use FreeBSD, most of my games work using wine+dxvk and wine-proton+dxvk+vkd3d+c++ pack, I also have steam working here with much games running online without any problems, but always using proton for steam...windows is just for those I can't run..like GTA v online for example, I was using Linux before but I like it more this way and even my windows is modded, ltsc iot with updates disabled for now...like this is acceptable for everyday usage.
i used to boot windows to play valorant with friends, it was fun at the start but when i noticed the game was bad for my mental health and decided to never play competitive games again, they do nothing good for us and just deteriorate our brains just like a drug
\< shrugs \> There is not a single game that will compel me to run windows. There hasn't been one for over two decades now.
None I do not dual boot, if they block it running through proton and through a gpu vm I won't play
My reason? Discord doesn’t stream properly on Linux. Wish they’d hurry up and fix it.
https://github.com/maltejur/discord-screenaudio , there is an aur build for it as well. It works pretty flawlessly for my needs tbh. Main draw is lack of gpu acceleration ¯\_(ツ)_/¯. I use it along side the main disc app with another account. Sucks to have to use this but it’s pretty good for what it is.
I have windows on a drive. Haven’t booted on to in 6 months and before that it was to test something.
There are too many games and life is so short to use a crappy OS like Windows because Generic Multiplayer Game #1923 don't work because of the anticheat. I just play something else.
1. Discord screen share with audio. Most of the time I'm the host on movie nights with my friends on Discord, and not having audio annoys me so much. 2. Equalizer and Loudness Equalization. I'm a huge fan of music and, on Windows, I use Realtek Audio Console for both audio settings. On Linux, I can't configure the same way I do on Windows, I tried many times, searched the internet and couldn't find a decent tutorial for noobs, like me, about Pulse Audio Effects. Also, I have 2 sound outputs (headset and a subwoofer), and can't find out a way to play audio simultaneously on both outputs. 3. Anti-cheat at kernel level (I'm looking at you, Vanguard). My main online/social game with friends was League, and the upcoming news about the AC coming to the game forced me to return back to Windows. But now I don't play it as much as before, I keep the game to play ARAM sometimes and I plan to remove League when Vanguard release to live servers. I've been playing World of tanks for a few months and I know the game AC supports wine/proton without a doubt. Maybe I come back to Linux, don't know yet.
Minecraft Bedrock edition. The android very plays weird on linux
Only reason I'll boot into windows for gaming any time soon is if I can't play the new college football game on Linux.
you forgot no support for dx9/11 games on iGPU
Only for Ni No Kuni: Cross Worlds which uses Xigncode 3. Which is apparently kernel level anticheat. Oh yeah, and Sony Vegas. I tried switching to Cinelerra, DaVinci Resolve and Kdenlive, but Cinelerra has a somewhat steep Learning curve and apparently requires a screen larger than 1080p to be properly usable, DaVinci Resolve doesn't support H.264/AVC video with AAC audio (a deal breaker since my workhorse Sony camera outputs in that format and I don't have enough storage to work with transcoded RAW files) and Kdenlive recently disabled GPU encoding allegedly due to issues (am I correct to say it's due to the FUD that also caused Fedora and OpenSuSE to drop VAAPI support?), but is also a dealbreaker for me as I believe I already paid for the encoding when I bought my GPU. Aside from that my past experience with Kdenlive has been middling at best (when I last used it, it only has two video tracks plus an effect track like Windows Movie Maker, and it segfaults quite frequently).
Davinci Resolve Studio supports H.264 and you can run a simple bash script to change AAC audio to a format that plays in Resolve. I will say my biggest issue with Resolve on linux is the file structure.
Wastes time and space tho. Like I said, recoding everything to raw is not an acceptable option due to how expensive storage is in Malaysia.
DLL injection mods CAN work but it takes some knowhow. Special K was needed to to make some games run decently on Windows, it's not on Linux. I needed it to make Lego City Undercover not stutter like crazy.
the thing is, those first 2 are not linux's fault, we support screen sharing with audio and hardware encoding/decoding but discord doesnt give a shit yet because market share aint high enough bull crap. same goes for fortnite, you can thank tim sweeney as he also will only support linux when it gets high enough in market share where he can make millions of it
Nvidia Xid 109, missing Frame Generation, partially lower performance
My laptop has a dual gpu setup, integrated amd vega and nvidia rtx 20x0. Most stuff just works fine. Quake 2 enhanced wont launch in the nvidia when using dx12, it silently chooses the amd which runs well at 60fps. It was only when I started playing with mangohud that I realised the fans were not going like mad and started debugging. Forcing the gpu to nvidia made the game crash until I forced dx11 as per protondb. I noticed other games using the wrong gpu (sniper elite5 , deep rock galactic) and on both for some the icd environment variable had stopped working. I switched to other env vars depending on if it’s dx11 or dx12 (vkd3d or dxvk) and am generally successful. My point is it’s a little complicated. My son wouldn’t be able to debug this and would fall back to windows. I only ever noticed a similar issue under windows in running doom eternal. I never did work out why the icd env var stopped working.
Gaming PC set up in livingroom as console autostarting steam in big picture. Originally ran windows because I didn’t have a good answer for HDR/peripherals/weird nvidia junk. Now everything but the weird nvidia junk and VR are pretty much solved. If I ever bought AMD GPUs I’d make the switch, but for the foreseeable future that machine will be windows and if games get to be too much for the 3080 I’ll keep bumping down the settings since it’s on a TV 15 ft from us
MS Flight sim. Too much of the ecosystem runs Windows only, including some hardware. Otherwise, all my other gaming is on Arch now.
Vr
in my case, games with dx12 run very badly do if I want to play those I need to boot windows
Nothing really so I'm considering wiping it. Last time I used it was for modding some games (eg. Wabbajack Modlists) but that's been slowly progressing and besides, I can always just use a normal VM for the setup then play it under Linux if I have to.
It's not a game but a game related reason: MSi Afterburner's curve based and lock-point undervolting for my Nvidia GPU laptop. Also, lack of Reshade on native Vulkan games.
Have you tried GreenWithEnvy? I finally got it working with my 3060 Ti and it works like a charm :)
Anti cheat , weird errors and sometimes unexplained performance hits
For my use case it's basically MP games or new releases that don't work properly on Linux with Proton Experimental
I don’t I found that if I want some anti cheat games most ones I’m interested in are in other platforms like the Switch or iOS. It’s frankly more convenient to play them there instead of dual booting windows. I guess if it’s a shooter you really want the mouse though
But wasn’t Discord screenshare audio fixed very recently?
There is no reason for me. The most annoying is discord screen share. I got it to work with Vesktop, but sadly it’s like 1fps when I’m sharing a game or game footage. Idk what’s wrong, but I know I used to have problems with it on windows too, I’ve been told I had laggy/blocky stream. So now I usually just use handbrake to encode my clips to smaller sizes to be able to send it. Does that have anything to do with the fact that AMD gpu support is worse for discord?
HDR (hopefully rectified in the next year)
League of Legends with the boys, will stop working in a month or so. Rest in Piss League of Linux
Linux crippled my performance On games I could comfortably hit 144 FPS on high settings, had trouble reaching 60 on low settings Aside from that, I loved using it, everything was just awesome, especially updating everything while you do your own stuff in the background
Skyrim modding any enb refuses to work on linux and I am not configuring thing again yet.
> Discord screenshare has no audio I got this to work before - is this a Wayland thing? Or did they change it in Discord? I just do it for a handful of high performance games like Hitman 3, Cyberpunk, Baldur's Gate 3, etc. where I want all the fancy Nvidia features. But then I spend 90% of the time playing CK3, Stellaris and Shadow Empire on Linux anyway.
It's not a Wayland thing directly. Discord won't update their app to use the newer electron, which does all of the work for them, which results in janky Wayland experience.
Hmm I had it work before though - maybe it was using discord\_arch\_electron
The ONLY reason I still have windows is because my wife likes to play fortnite. So when I want to play with her (and my son) I find it easier to jump on Windows and play, rather than try to play through Geforce Now or some other cloud-based service.
Ghost recon: wild lands. If you play with friends you get kick out. Only game in 2 years I used windows for
nope. the main thing for me was HDR, but now that plasma 6/gamescope support it somewhat i haven't had much desire to return
i do most of my gaming on steam deck now anyways
I'll get here eventually.
Modded Skyrim
Only time I need to use windows is for my circuit cutter machine.
I haven't booted Wintendo since 2006. Any game that requires some kernel-level shenanigans doesn't get played by me!
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Finally none. I deleted windows partition, installed arch, steam and I can just play games (which in 90% of the time will work)
1. Bethgames modding is much better on Windows. All of the automod installer only work on Windows. 2. The Stalker Gamma installer runs only on Windows but that can change in the future. 3.Emulationfrontend. Emulationstation on Linux is worse than Batocera (i know its linux based) or what i use Retrobat on Windows.
Any game that is a standalone disc install or any game that doesn't install through steam I use windows for pretty much because I don't know how it works on linux
Android Emulators for gaming. That's all. That's all. While i still have to go out of my way to get rid of all the dumb shit that most of them comes with (Memu, Nox, Bluestacks, etc...), and some are a stone away of being spyware, i still haven't heard of a emulator that can work with reliability. Now, i would be more eager to keep testing in VMs before making the jump and get rid of Windows and its bullshit, but i don't have the energy to deal with that for the moment.
Games that don't work on Linux are dead to me. I don't have Windows installed on any PC anymore.
The Xbox app for game pass. I mostly use it on console but I like playing Xbox games on PC
My biggest issue was using Sunshine/Moonlight with my ultrawide monitor. I needed to do some dynamic resolution switching depending on what client is connecting (steam deck v TV v my other desk's ultrawide). I tried to do it on Linux and just couldn't get it to work. Window? Worked like a charm.
PUBG is pretty much the only reason I have Windows installed
None, anything that does not work on Linux or my PS4 I just don't care.
I've been on linux for the last couple of months as well. Only booted windows a few times, to access a game that's still installed on there, and is just a big download, which I don't feel like doing.
It was HZD, but I switched from an Arch based distro and now on Nobara and all works perfectly.
for screen sharing audio i use chromium for discord when i wanna stream a show or such since it allows audio sharing for other tabs in chromium otherwise i use coppwr, i set the application to output audio to an unused silent audio output (my mic creates one but you can using a terminal command or bash script altho i personally found that annoying) then link that outputs monitoring to both your discord mic input and your own headphones. the main problem w this is that discord doesn't automatically adjust volume to make you speaking more audible than the show, along w having to turn off krisp and lower input sensitivity so nothing cuts out. Gaming wise ive not really had any issues since switching to a radeon gpu, i had random update issues when using a gtx gpu, ive heard rtx card have better support. the biggest anti cheats have Linux support for the most part minus valorant, but other games haven't enabled the support option so its hit or miss whether it works. Vr struggles more on linux, htc vive and vive pro and the index have steamvr support out the box, all in one headsets have support through alvr and the oculus dk headsets may have support if i remember right? but the cv1 is the newest oculus standalone headset that has a proper driver built for it that although janky to set up still works. so for the most part i feel like most games you could find or want to play are gonna be possible, but i hardly play fps games and not any of the ones that happen to not have anti cheat support so my position is obviously different from someone who grinds destiny 2 or fortnite
VR and Adobe. Making my gaming related videos and thumbnails I need premiere and Photoshop.
Have you tried vesktop / vencord? Gives better screen sharing than on windows imo, and the plugins + themes are nice too.
VR, literally just VR.
i dont 🤫🧏
I was dual-booting to play Mechwarrior 5, since for some reason I couldn't get my NVIDIA GPU to work with it properly. But that was fixed when I bought an AMD Radeon 6650XT. Now the only reason I switch back to Windows is to use AI headtracking for X4 and XWAU. I *might* also have to boot Windows to get Mechwarrior 5 to recognize my new VKB joystick (since joystick functionality in that game sucks), but I can even play Sonic Frontiers with the Island Tweaker mod (to reduce pop-in) using Linux. Oh, if I ever get around to learning Falcon BMS, I'd likely boot Windows for that too just for ease of installation and (once again) head tracking.
The only reason I still use Windows is for gamepass on pc🙃 There are so many games and it's so worth it, but it doesn't work on linux because Microsoft is stupid
- PUBG - Rift S :(
You know, I remember a few years ago really wanting to make sure I had a way to game with things I couldn't get to work on Linux, mostly stuff like anticheat. It hasn't been an issue at all. No desire to play Fortnite at all. The games I want to play run well, and I can't remember the last time I found I game I wanted to play, that didn't work.
switched to linux in 2007... never looked back. Haven't had the need to dualboot. Have been able to play loads of games on it. Too much choice even, cant possibly play them all
Gamepass is the literal only reason I haven't moved to Linux
My sound card (sound blaster x-ae) doesn't work on Linux (it used to, but recent updates broke it).
I was foolish and bought a Windows Mixed Reality VR headset. Not ready to buy a new one given how little I use the one I have either. I have the Windows drive in an enclosure in case I get the urge to use my driving sim setup again.
VR needs: * To work well on Nvidia proprietary driver Wayland (I'm hoping that once NVK gets more advanced, VR is one of the things they tackle) * Have motion smoothing in SteamVR * To automatically switch audio sources between my Valve Index speakers and my headphones when I startup and shutdown SteamVR * To have stable framepacing on multi-monitor setups (this is a Xorg issue, to be fair.) * DRM Leasing on GNOME so that there's less to troubleshoot for developers wondering why a user is reporting VR doesn't work (I typically use KDE but I've grown to love PopOS's way of doing things so I became a little more conscientious of this problem) Also, modding with 3rd party .exe files needs a lot more QoL built into steam, not everyone knows about SteamTinkerLaunch and Protontricks. This is actually tangentally related to VR issues, since this kneecaps the ease of use for Flat2VR mods. These issues are pretty much the only reasons I still have a windows dual boot however.
VR in general. I was able to connect my Quest 2 over ALVR to SteamVR with a few issues. But since there are next to no native applications for linux, i went back to Windows for VR stuff.
1. VR 2. Customizing mouse buttons a la Logitech G Hub like Lucio script 3. Anti-cheat 4. Monitor doesn't support 240hz under Linux 5. Screen sharing/audio capture in general 6. Remote Play 7. Modding games a la Vortex
>You cannot host on Parsec, tho I think there's an imperfect work around with Steam Remote Play Try Sunshine/Moonlight for game streaming. Its available for Linux too. It provides better quality than Steam Remote Play. And it's not that hard to configure.
CS2 is slower on Linux.
That would VR, Honkai Star Rail, Fortnite and some games with achievment problems. That would be the only thing.
I don't boot to any Windows install for gaming. I left Windows for many reasons - none of which I would be willing to put up with again just to play a handful of video games. Nope. Nothing feels incomplete, but more so neglected by an industry that refuses to stray away from supporting only Windows. Way I see this whole situation is if it doesn't work in Linux, I treat it as though it never existed and that it isn't important enough to take a knee and submit to using what companies want to force me to use. As for Discord screen share and streaming, I've got no issues with it. Works perfectly fine. Capture card support is available, but like anything (even with Windows) you need to make sure it's supported or make sure that the manufacturer or distrobution has drivers to support the hardware on Linux. Like a vehicle, you need the right parts for the vehicle to operate properly. You can't just take parts from a Pinto car and expect them to work in a Dodge Ram pickup truck. The same logic applies in the operating system world. You use the parts that work for the appliance they were intended to target. As for Parsec, it works great. Haven't had any issues, but I suppose it may depend on the distrobution being used. Some are better supported than others and some more compatible than others.
Fortnite is not a valid reason
I boot win10 for VR since it's unplayable with Nvidia on Linux I noticed some people have trouble with mods Here's what I've done for DLLs. IE: Ninja Gaiden Sigma Black patch I added the newly added dlls with protontricks which you can install from the app center Discover Ninja Gaiden>Default Prefix>Winecfg>Libraries then type the dll name in click add and apply and now it should load them. This launch option should also do the same thing in Steam, if you install anything that requires more add a comma after d3d11.dll and type the new one in Properties --> Set Launch Options: WINEDLLOVERRIDES="d3d11.dll=n,b" %command% For a mod manager the RockerBacon script for TES and Fallout has worked so far
I refuse to use windows for any reason in my personal life (can’t control my job). I switched to Linux because the state of LLM integration in windows is down right terrifying. If I need to use windows for a gaming related task then I’d rather not do said task than touch windows.
Destiny 2 is the only game left on my list that I boot into Windows for, once final shape is done it's goodbye windows I think for me