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Um, I tried Mint for gaming and while the community is strong on helping me figure out what was wrong with my video drivers and my Logitech steering wheel, i realized I could just not run Linux and spend the time actually playing my working game on Windows.
I'm not a Windows fanboy. The majority of people just want a turn key experience. Linux(for now) is not yet a trouble free experience.
what was your issue exactly ?
Wine is an awesome feat of engineering to be sure, but even the gold level compatibility Windows games dont always work out of the box on any linux distro without a bunch of tweaks, installation of drivers, windows DLLs etc etc. Its time consuming and people dont have time, thats a huge issue.
Another issue is when the inevitable distro update comes, you have a 50/50 chance of all those tweaks having to be done again (for each game) if something with the upgrade goes sideways. Even just updating wine itself can occasionally break things, and then you are back in the support forum looking for answers.. for hours.. instead of just playing the game. For slightly more advanced users I think Lutris is the way to go, you can configure the games yourself and launch them with various versions of wine or proton, and that seems to work pretty well in most cases.
The right answer is for game manufactures to make the games for Linux, so the right answer is to get Linux desktop market share up over 10%, thats the only way to force the issue.
I get daily updates on my Fedora/KDE install, and I've never seen that happen, and I'm a avid gamer, playing games each and every day.
Also, you don't install Wine yourself directly into the OS, so you don't have to worry about it breaking with a new OS update.
You install a manager for Wine, like Bottles. Between Bottles and Steam, games install and run to the point you can't even tell you're running them on Linux.
Bottles will even let you link your Bottles installed game into Steam, so you see it in your games list just like any other Steam game.
Initially, the game ran like a potato with input lag. Prime run was missing and then a few visits to forums and finally got the game to run at normal frame rates, which isn't faster than Windows. Then it would randomly lag. 120fps to 30 back to 120.
Then there was the issue with my Logitech 928 wheel, shifter and pedals. It straight doesn't work and gave up figuring it out when I found that even at the highest fps, it was just equal to Windows.
So basically I'm installing Forza Horizon 5 but with extra steps with no gain.
Bro tried one distro and condemned the entire span of Linux systems. Aight.
You realise that having to try a whole bunch of other distros is so much worse compared to the "turn key experience" they're after, right? And it's a valid complaint. I generally agree with the sentiment, even though I've more or less sworn off Windows whenever I can possibly avoid it.
Add to this that running Steam on Linux Mint is probably the most "turn-key" Linux gaming experience you'll probably get
Blame the user and not the product. What are you, Tim Apple?
Bro didn't even spend two weeks of his life fucking around with different distros and trying various workarounds and hacks trying to get them to work with his games before he just went back to playing games on a system he knows works. Aight
Seems to be a reoccurring running theme.
Then don't use linux. Whats the problem? There's perfectly fine Windows for normal people.
Think you're missing the point.
Seems very purposeful and repetitive.