I’ve dabbled with Linux over the past 25 years. Last November, I built a high end gaming PC spec’d for Bazzite.
I haven’t touched Windows for gaming in over 4 months.
Yep, my steam rewinds have been 100% Linux for a couple of years now.
I think the only exception in that time was AW2 because it’s an EGL exclusive (and ray tracing/mesh shading support in proton were still a bit lacking in performance).
There are sacrifices. Space Marine 2 doesn’t work despite having a beast of a machine. It seems to be optimized for Windows / Nvidia. I can’t use my racing wheel. It is detected as a device, but I’m unable to configure it due to how Bazzite sandboxes devices and programs from each other.
Eventually these may be resolved. In the meantime, I’m playing Kingdom Come 2 and Arc Raiders along with hopping around a massive backlog playing 5-30 min of games I’ve accumulated over the years, like wandering a massive arcade. Any given evening, I turn on the TV, switch to input 1 and there’s the Steam Deck UI where I left it last. No mysterious reboot showing me a Windows login, no surprise, required Windows update forcing me to wait 15 min before I can start playing.
It’s fucking awesome.
You might have had the same issues with SM2 I did; periods of smoothness followed by severe stuttering. In the past few weeks, they put out a patch that fixed things for me. That said, I’m on Nvidia.
I reinstalled after this thread. I no longer have performance issues! I’m on AMD. Hell yes.
Are you a Fanatec user? If so, that’s a bummer that Bazzite is causing issues. I’ve been on Nobara for a couple years and have had no issues with my CSL DD.
It’s a Logitech G29. I’ve read that other distros do not have this issue, that it’s something to do with Bazzite being an immutable operating system. Does Nobara have a gaming mode? I like Bazzite because it feels like Steam Deck.
Valve is going to be a significant contributor to the death of Windows. Legit one man’s integrity is going to bring an end to a literal monopoly as adjudicated in the late 90’s. Hail gaben.
May he live forever.
The fact that he worked on the early versions of Windows makes it even better.
Not just windows but also Google. Can’t wait to destroy them by installing SteamOS everywhere.
Hah! I contributed to this, was quite happy when I got the steam survey on my Linux rig.
I didn’t want to use Windows 11.
Nobody likes using Windows. People merely tolerate it because of the other stuff the like that runs only on Windows.
What the f is this? (If you click Linux only.)
IIRC someone one internet once said that was from Flatpak installations.
In the past Flatpak was listed as “Flatpak”. Its possible that something changed and this is actually Flatpak.
Been on Linux for gaming for almost a year now and completely windows free since November last year. It’s glorious.
I use Arch, btw.
Almost exactly the same here. I technically still have my old windows install as a VM, but it’s broken and has been for months because I’m too lazy to update one little script that would take 5 seconds, because who cares, I ain’t using it.
I don’t use Arch, btw. But I use EndeavourOS!
Year of the linux desktop
I’m guessing most people are not buying Macs if they want to play games on it. Macs are excellent work computers but not suitable for anything more intensive than the Sims 4. Which is fine if you only want to play that, but most people buy Macs because they want to do work on them.
I have used Macs for more than twenty years and have also played games on everyone of them. They run just fine.
If you buy a computer for gaming, Macs are not the best choice. However there are more great games that run well than you can ever play.
I’m doing my part!
But seriously I would encourage everyone to try a dual boot with Linux even if you don’t end up switching. Just to get the numbers higher. Developers see these numbers and if it gets high enough they are going to take it seriously. Can’t wait to see what happens with the steam machine numbers.
I distro hopped a bunch in March. Tried like eight distros, maybe more. I installed steam on all of these to see how it works.
