this post was submitted on 23 Feb 2025
176 points (93.6% liked)

Linux Gaming

16442 readers
594 users here now

Discussions and news about gaming on the GNU/Linux family of operating systems (including the Steam Deck). Potentially a $HOME away from home for disgruntled /r/linux_gaming denizens of the redditarian demesne.

This page can be subscribed to via RSS.

Original /r/linux_gaming pengwing by uoou.

Resources

WWW:

Discord:

IRC:

Matrix:

Telegram:

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
(page 2) 50 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] kugmo@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago

Considering a majority of people use Nvidia on their desktops, they'll be forced to jump through hoops with stuff as minor as setting their desktop session to X instead of Wayland (which is absolutely not ready) to installing a custom vaapi package to get hardware accelerated video playback in Firefox. With games and Nvidia say goodbye to a chunk of DX12 performance Then you have the majority of laptop users that have intel HD graphics laptops, ones made in the past 10 years will be fine for low end stuff, but they will take a hit because i915 shits itself with DX12 games and the new xe driver that handles it better is very new and only available on iGPUs made in the last 3 years or so? It is really only good if you have an AMD GPU which has absolutely pitiful market share, with the Steam Deck probably being the most popular AMD PC device people own.

[–] crony@lemmy.cronyakatsuki.xyz 18 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Pewdiepie apparently confirms that it is, atleast according to his latest video and his comment in the comment section.

[–] Sunshine@lemmy.ca 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Could you link them? That would give a massive boost in getting more people to sign up for Linux.

[–] Kory@lemmy.ml 12 points 2 days ago

For example: https://phtn.app/post/lemmy.ml/26299109

There are a couple of other posts, you'll find them quickly if you search for Pewdiepie.

[–] Psythik@lemm.ee 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (14 children)

Not until they implement 3D Settings page in the Nvidia control panel, and improve upon HDR support. Do those two things, and I will finally stop having to dual boot.

Edit: And yes anticheat needs to be sorted as well, as others have pointed out.

load more comments (14 replies)
[–] Banzai51@midwest.social 9 points 2 days ago

Pretty much, yeah. Only thing not 100% yet are some of the more obscure peripherals. Example: Eye and head tracking. While sticks can and do work in Linux, it would be nice if VKB, Virpil, etc had native Linux calibration tools.

[–] throwback3090@lemmy.nz 6 points 2 days ago

What will itsfoss.com say? I'm on the edge of my seat

[–] snuglylimes@lemm.ee -1 points 1 day ago
[–] Sunshine@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I was having some issues when I updated to Nobara 41 as Hell Divers 2 failed to load in the textures. So it still has hiccups.

[–] Telorand@reddthat.com 7 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Hell Divers 2 has had a rocky relationship with Linux from the get go. Hopefully, as Linux gains market share, game studios start to include Linux testing.

[–] jlh@lemmy.jlh.name 3 points 2 days ago (2 children)

helldivers 2 works great for me with nixos. Both native package and flatpak.

load more comments (2 replies)
load more comments (1 replies)
load more comments
view more: ‹ prev next ›