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Any recommendations for low-end, Linux-friendly games to play? (beehaw.org)

submitted 1 year ago by Witch@beehaw.org to c/gaming@beehaw.org

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Hi everyone! So I just switched to Linux and I am a little unsure of what to play on my laptop.

It's a presumably decent laptop, 16gb of ram and Iris Xe, but I find that it has battery issues trying to play anything fancy like Skyrim.

I'm looking into things like emulation, finally tackling my Itch.io backlog, and bringing out old classics.

I like RPGs and text-based choose your own adventure games, so if you have any recommendations I'd appreciate it!

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[–] Gork@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I know that you can run TES 4 Oblivion decently well on Linux with a Windows emulator (WINE). I had a few odd graphics glitches like a gigantic texture of a tree just completely taking over the sky. I guess it wanted to be some kind of Yggdrasil tree or something.

It ran well though, and on a early 2010-era laptop. I don't know about mod compatibility though.

[–] Onihikage@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

WINE Is Not an Emulator 😉

Seriously, that's what the acronym means, because it's not an emulator, it's a compatibility layer.

There's also Proton for Steam games, or even non-steam games, though it's a little more complicated to set up in the later case.

Oblivion's excellent with mods, though I'm unfamiliar with modding Bethesda games on Linux.

[–] entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 1 year ago

Proton is Wine with a bundle of extra libraries included for compatibility. It's basically an opinionated gaming-focused distribution of Wine for games.

I realize you may know this but I'm just adding it here for anyone who may be confused and see the two as in-competition with each other.