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The only game I have ever played is FIFA on a PS4. Now I have a gaming laptop but have no idea how I should go about playing games on Linux. Appreciate your help in advance!

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[–] phanto@lemmy.ca 107 points 7 months ago (2 children)

This is such a short, sweet game, runs on everything: Portal. Even my mom likes it!

[–] Alto@kbin.social 42 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Portal and Portal 2 are my go to tests for if a machine qualifies as "an computer". Basically, if it can run those, it's probably good enough to be grandmas facebook machine. Might have to toss an ssd into it (exactly what I did with an old core2duo hp pavilion), but generally I find it to be a good rule of thumb.

Plus it gives me an excuse to play Portal when I test a machine :P

[–] No1@aussie.zone 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Just last week, I fired up Portal with RTX (on Windows, I'm ashamed to admit), and holy guacamole, I think it stresses my gpu more than any other game in my library!

[–] thequantumcog@lemmy.world 4 points 7 months ago

I am not a gamer but even I enjoyed portal.