this post was submitted on 07 Aug 2024
368 points (90.2% liked)
Linux Gaming
15490 readers
233 users here now
Gaming on the GNU/Linux operating system.
Recommended news sources:
Related chat:
Related Communities:
Please be nice to other members. Anyone not being nice will be banned. Keep it fun, respectful and just be awesome to each other.
founded 4 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
You can literally say the exact same thing with Windows. That's how you Linux peeps feel, constantly yelling "why are you using windows! Stop having fun!"
Is windows perfect? Nah. But does it work most the time? Yeah. All the bitching about windows being shit and yet my 300+ installed games all work..... Crazy....
How about just let people use what they like and shut up with the damn "my OS is better than yours" nonsense?
It's posts like this, that even though I've used Linux in the past, make me immediately think "nah, fuck that, I'll stick to windows. I don't want to deal with those people."
You're more of a harm than help.
I'd say around half of the games I play on Linux require some kind of special launch script, specific Wine version, or even different versions of Steam to run properly. It's nowhere near as simple as people make it out to be.
You must have an odd selection of games. For me, 90% of the time I just click play on Steam and it works.
Different versions of Steam? What the fuck are you on about? You must be making your Linux gaming harder than it has to be. I've done all sorts of weird shit to install games and mods on Linux but I have never even seen an installation guide that requires somehow creating a different version of Steam.
Even with launch scripts and wine versions Lutris usually covers almost every game I've wanted to install. Lutris makes setting up right scripts and wine versions as easy as it is to install runtimes on Windows.
Oh, okay.
I'm genuinely curious what game needs a different version of Steam.
IDK man, I was sticking with windows strictly for gaming purposes but ever since I got my steam deck I haven’t had a single problem and any inconvenience is grossly outweighed by windows GD updates and halting the entire system to show an ad… on my $150 copy of windows…. I’m not saying every game will play that’s just objectively wrong but I am saying you either won’t notice or will easily find something that does work, also I don’t think people pay attention to how much tinkering it takes to get older windows games to work.