Whom also likes to game every now and then ;)

Edit: Thank you all for your input and suggestions! Linux Mint shall be my next OS! Though, I think I’ll give Pop!OS a look-see as well.

    • the post of tom joad@sh.itjust.works
      6·
      10 months ago

      I game, like a lot, and if windows beats me one more time i swear I’ll leave them for good. Is there a list of supported games? I just hit their site and only saw an nvidia gpx drivers too, did i simple miss the AMD stuff?

      • caseyweederman@lemmy.ca
        7·
        10 months ago

        Intel and AMD drivers are part of the Linux kernel so you never need to think about drivers.
        Check out https://www.protondb.com/ for something of a list of supported games, but generally most games just work (in Steam, go to Settings, Compatibility, and check the box for applying Proton on all games in library and not just the officially supported ones).
        ProtonDB isn’t a complete list, but if you do struggle with getting a game to work, chances are somebody has posted a string you can paste into Steam to make the game magically work.

        • Caboose12000@lemmy.world
          3·
          10 months ago

          to add on to this, generally the only games that have issues are games with pretty serious anti cheat, and even many of those will still work. protondb will reflect this of course, but if you already know you mostly only play single player or cooperative titles, you can save a lot of time looking through your library

      • ikidd@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        10 months ago

        And it’s fine as a daily driver, as well. I moved off Manjaro so I miss the AUR, and have considered adding Distrobox to get that back.

        • tourist@lemmy.world
          2·
          10 months ago

          I never heard of Distrobox until now. It seems really cool. What’s the cause for hesitation? Unreasonably resource intensive?

          • ikidd@lemmy.worldEnglish
            2·
            10 months ago

            I’m not sure I trust it to have everything to be fully integrated. I guess it’s just one more level of troubleshooting then.

      • Evotech@lemmy.world
        11·
        10 months ago

        If you don’t like Valorant or play cs2 on like faceit or another private league

    • agent_flounder@lemmy.worldEnglish
      11·
      10 months ago

      I appreciate what glorious eggroll does. And I’ve had no issues with the few games I’ve played on Steam.

      I’ve been running Nobara for several months and it has been very stable though I find it is lacking a little polish around the edges in some areas. Kind of like how Mint was when I first started about 10y ago.

      I’m trying out Fedora now for a while. On kernel 6.5. I was on 6.1 in Nobara. I have one game that’s crashing now (it wasn’t crashing in Nobara … go figure). So I may have to go back to Nobara or try to figure out what they did with Nobara vs Fedora that would help.

      When Mint gets to kernel 6.x some day, I might jump back. (5.19 doesn’t support my GPU). Overall Mint became very polished. I hardly ever ran into weird issues. Although I do remember feeling Cinnamon blew up every so often.