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    And yes I looked it up and it was the game's fault, elite dangerous odyssey can be fickle even when I had Windows 🤷‍♂️

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    [–] li10@feddit.uk 12 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    I’m gonna get shit for it, but gaming on Linux really isn’t great imo.

    My experience is that it’s a pain in the arse to get anything running, performance is worse, vsync is fucked, no HDR, doesn’t work with Hue Sync, and then a hundred other miscellaneous problems.

    Proton is an incredible achievement from a technical standpoint, and if people are happy to put up with issues to protect their privacy then good on them, but I think people oversell how good the actual Linux gaming experience is.

    P.S. I don’t need suggestions on how to fix the issues I listed. I’m more than able to resolve them if I had the time, I just don’t want to have those problems to start with.

    [–] dickbutler@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

    Linux games work just fine on my SteamDeck.

    Not sure how to add pictures here yet so you have to imagine Leo laughing with drink here.

    [–] jkmooney@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago

    I guess I'm a "casual gamer" and I tend to avoid games using anti-cheat (not clear on how much access to my computer I'm giving that software). So far, for me, the games have "just worked". I'm even alpha testing a new game (Palia) in Lutris and it seems to be working just fine.

    [–] WildlyCanadian@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago

    Most things are easy to get running in my experience, and I've never noticed performance loss. My only gripe is lack of RTX support, but I plan on switching to AMD anyway so I'm not too fussed.

    Not sure what you mean by vsync being fucked?

    I do keep windows installed tho, because modding Bethesda games specifically has been a major pain in the ass for me on Linux. Outside of that and a couple other minor things I play everything in Linux with little effort. Still wouldn't recommend it to the average Joe though, but I love to tinker.

    [–] rambaroo@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

    Yeah I tried it as well and it worked, but it was annoying. I used Ubuntu and every now and then some of my games would break after package/OS updates, which sucked because the games usually took effort to work well. I already spend my day solving tech problems and really don't feel like dealing with it after work, so I settled for Windows as my desktop.

    Still, it's way better than it was 10 years ago and it keeps improving. With Windows continuing and worsening its anti-consumer practices I could see myself on Linux for desktop usage in the future at some point.

    [–] mrquantumoff@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    I honestly agree, the only exception is the steam deck. I don't know how, but that thing runs games really smooth. I really want CoD, BF2042 and R6S to support Linux, these games are stopping me from daily driving linux.

    [–] li10@feddit.uk 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    Yeah, I imagine that’s helped by Valve working hard to get games running on a device they have a lot of control over, making it easier to fix/optimise games.

    Gaming on Linux will obviously continue to improve, but I think it will always be playing catch up and I don’t see most game devs bothering to support it, unfortunately.

    [–] zbecker@mastodon.zbecker.cc 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    @li10

    I think devs have an incentive to support it as it gains marketshare.

    Easy anticheat for example didn't support #wine until after the steam deck came out

    [–] li10@feddit.uk 0 points 1 year ago

    I don’t think it’s going to gain any significant market share though, or at least not until games start supporting it.

    Bit of a chicken and egg situation.

    [–] MrFoenBox@startrek.website 2 points 1 year ago

    Actually, I have had minimal problems overall. The only games I have been unable to play are those with 'Easy Anti Cheat'. But more often than not I can click install on Steam and start playing games first try just like on Windows. I do still check tho on protondb if anyone else has had issues getting the game to work just out of habit.

    [–] Big_Haddy@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    It's absolutely far from perfect, but I'm happy because of how much better it's gotten compared to how it used to be. Like, similar to like how everytime I find myself complaining about emptying my shitty dishwasher I remind myself that not long ago I had to do them by hand.