Hydroel @ hydroel @lemmy.world

Posts

3

Comments

132

Joined

2 yr. ago

Good to know! Which version of Solus are you using? Although it doesn't seem to really matter as I don't think any of them are really dedicated to gaming.

Thanks for the feedback! I'll take a look, that's also the kind of information that is extremely relevant regarding a full switch.

Btw, do you know if there are any DX12 features still missing from Proton/DXVK?

Newer games might not be optimized for Linux in the first place

Thanks to the success of the SD, I believe many developers have started testing and optimizing their games for Proton, which I also account for when I'm talking about "optimized for Linux".

Noted for the rolling releases! Don't rolling releases necessarily bring the risk of unstabilities as well? There's often a balance which might be hard to find between features and stability.

I don't understand why, but I don't see your message on the post, only in my notifications. Anyway, thanks for the feedback!

Why “no thanks”?

Because I have a powerful enough desktop to run games that I would be streaming then. It takes away some of the rights I have regarding my collection of games and creates a need that I did not have. I also just bought an NVIDIA GPU, I won't buy a new one to be able to switch to Linux.

“Many” -> citation needed.

On two different computers running Ubuntu, my DELL monitor was not correctly recognized. I had to switch from Wayland to Xorg and define the actual monitor resolution through xrandr - not impossible, just quite annoying. Similarly, my Logitech G403's buttons to change the sensitivity never have never worked correctly on Ubuntu, and there is no official Logitech software to make them work. Those buttons are just not seen by an Ubuntu computer.

5. Performance.

That's one I didn't think of! Although I don't think backgrounds services impact that much performance nowadays on a higher end PC, it leaves that much more headroom to be used on the game instead. On the other hand, isn't performance on a non-native software already impacted negatively? So all in all, which would have the greater impact?

Nobara

Thanks for the recommendation! I know have examples of Ubuntu, Fedora and Arch based distros optimized for gaming. As for which to choose, I will probably get as many answers as persons I ask. And ChimeraOS seems to be a nice project, it just doesn't fit my needs.

won’t be doing business with them anymore.

Agreed, just stick around for the free games!

Good to know, thank you!

I agree about Snap: it should be great, in theory, it just doesn't work as well as it ought to.

I've been considering Pop! OS, which seems very nice indeed.

Battle.net works as well, OW2 plays fine on Linux.

I thought SD users had to dual boot to play Diablo IV quite recently, I thought it was because of a Batlle.NET compatibility issue but I might have been mistaken.

As for a distro, I’d aim for something Arch based. Simply because you’ll get the latest drivers and mesa versions all the time, which is proven to increase FPS a ton over say, Ubuntu.

That's a very good point I hadn't thought of! Any specific recommendations?

Ubuntu has been (mostly) great so far! And there are some Ubuntu-based distros that seem to be tailored for gaming, so I was curious to see if any users around here had used them - I've mentioned Draugr and Ubuntu Game Pack, but if I was to use a base distro and tune it myself I might pick Pop! OS which seems really nice.

I almost exclusively play solo games, with exceptions here and there for solo campaigns - I'm currently playing MH:World, which is officially supported on the Deck so I guess compatibility will not be an issue. So anti-cheat systems will not impact me (or barely), and I don't know what games will be a hinder.

Any games that haven't worked at all for you? And what kinds of hiccups have you encountered? I haven't seen any actually incompatible game so far on the Deck - the main blockers I've seen were controller issues, or sometimes performance issues here and there on bad ports like FFXIII, FFXIII-2 and FFXIII: Lightning Returns. I guess modding can be quite a problem too, especially when all external tools are built for Windows.

Regarding NVIDIA drivers, what GPU do you have if I may ask? I recently upgraded to a 4070, I must say I'd hate to have upgraded to hinder performance because of the OS.

Yes, it is so much better than even 2 years ago - I would have never even considered Linux for my desktop, until very recently when I saw how everything pretty much works on the SD.

Your first two points don't impact me that much, but that third one hurts - I have been unable to make my monitor work in the correct resolution / refresh rate with Wayland and have had to use Xorg instead.

Isn't Arch a bit much? I've only used Ubuntu so far so I could consider easily using an Ubuntu-based distro, and although I tinker a bit with it I feel like Arch is really for more experienced users. Although Endeavour seems to accompany users a little bit already.

That's exactly the kind of feedback I wanted to have, thank you! I don't think I play any game in your list, or any game that use of anti-cheat (most of the games I play are solo games anyway), which tends to suggest that I might be the kind of gamer that would be able to switch without too much to look back to.

Do you know how comparable is the performance between Linux and Windows?

Indeed, I mixed up DRM and anti-cheat. On one hand, it's really annoying, but on the other hand it's really not the genre of games I play, so I wouldn't be bothered with any of this.

I think Diablo IV and maybe even the Battle.NET launcher. for example, won't work on Linux at all, won't they?

I understand cloud gaming works well, and I agree that it might be a very good alternative for the Steam Deck. However, it's not a viable first option with a powerful enough desktop - I've bought such a machine to be able to play on it, not to stream to it. Besides, my backlog of games is already large enough that I shouldn't require an unlimited library of new games!

I'm a little used to Linux - a lot less than I am to Windows - and the idea would be to dive deeper into it. So I'm not ready for Arch yet, but Vanilla is too restrictive. And Chimera seems to be a "couch" OS, made to be used with a controller on a TV, so I don't think it's the best option either?

It's a bit more problematic in Zelda as Zelda games had a tendency so far to have come out after WW2

The only thing that worked well and didn't have to be re-installed after a disconnect

I didn't have the same experience at all. I've used a Bluetooth Xbox controller for years, and it's worked great... As long as it was only in Bluetooth. If you try to plug it in, let's say to recharge it or because you want a more reliable connection, you won't be able to reconnect it in Bluetooth, unless you unpair the device first. Apparently, that is even the _expected behavior", for some reason.

The only way to disable that behavior is to go the the Windows device settings and preventing the controller from being recognized as a USB device, so it only uses the USB as a charging port. Another solution would be to connect the controller to a power plug instead of a USB port of the PC to recharge it, but how unintuitive is that? Imagine if Nintendo, Sony, Apple or even Microsoft themselves on Xbox pulled that? That whenever you plugged in your wireless controller to your device, it suddenly stopped working wirelessly? Out of all the smaller or bigger quirks of Windows, this one has been one of the most unnerving to me for a very long time.

Exactly! Takes so much of the pain away. And you know what would be really useful? If those scripts were accessible easily through simple buttons or sliders on which you could click, or something like along those lines.

It's complicated to talk about the lore of Zelda games, the Venn diagram of the lore of the game of that series is the Olympics logo.

Every goddamn sale I keep repeating that my backlog is already too big and still fall for this.