Linux is now the best gaming system. ｜ fernvenue's Blog
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When it comes to gaming on Linux, many many many people’s understanding stil remains in the Jurassic era. For the past few years, I’ve been using Linux as my main operating system for both work and gaming. From my personal experience, the gaming experience on Linux is far superior to that of macOS and Windows. I know I know…whenever I mention this, there are always some old-school individuals who come out to say that Linux’s driver configuration is complex, its game support is not rich enough, and its compatibility issues are significant, among other problems. In this article, I will directly address these issues and let everyone understand how much the gaming experience on Linux has developed by 2025.
  • A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.worldEnglish
    42·
    23 hours ago

    there’s still a lot of titles that require tweaking/hacking. And some just refuse to run, period.

    run into that shit on windows, too. and theres not compatability layers to blame, there.

    Even titles that are marked as Gold on ProtonDB sometimes crash or refuse to run randomly.

    and shit doesnt crash on windows? All protons in the world arent going to fix a games inherent bugs that make it crash.

    • Alaknár@lemm.eeEnglish
      61·
      23 hours ago

      run into that shit on windows, too. and theres not compatability layers to blame, there.

      I honestly cannot remember the last time I had trouble running anything on Windows. Probably around early Windows 7? It’s been years.

      and shit doesnt crash on windows? All protons in the world arent going to fix a games inherent bugs that make it crash.

      Mate, come on… If a game crashes on Windows, you know it’s the game’s or the driver’s fault.

      If a game crashes on Linux, it might be the game’s fault, or the driver’s fault, or the virtualiser’s fault, or the virtualised driver’s fault, or maybe a config file somewhere has something commented for no reason, or maybe you just rebooted and forgot to re-mount the secondary drive, or maybe a billion other reasons.

      Gaming on Linux is MUCH better than it used to be, but pretending that it’s anywhere near Windows’ level of “fire and forget” is just being silly.

      • endeavor@sopuli.xyzEnglish
        24·
        22 hours ago

        I honestly cannot remember the last time I had trouble running anything on Windows. Probably around early Windows 7? It’s been years.

        I have the feeling you don’t play much non-popular games.

        • Alaknár@lemm.eeEnglish
          2·
          21 hours ago

          I have the feeling you don’t play much non-popular games.

          Such as?