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him accidentally uninstalling gnome shell in the process of installing steam was so fucking good dude

LTT has been pretty positive about linux and recommend it a lot. Although that is more thanks to Emily than Linus.

Literally what everyone tells me: I tried it 8 years ago and it sucked (used really weird distro or Ubuntu)

It can't even wun micwodowt owwice :(

Linus tech tips, despite having some criticisms, had a rather positive opinion of Linux as far as I can remember

Well there is

• Vulkan (graphics API, successor to OpenGL which was used by e.g. Minecraft, CS Go i believe)
• DXVK (compatibility layer for games created with the DirectX Framework by MS)
• Lutris (game launcher for stuff you bought outside of steam, e.g. GOG, Epic, Uplay, etc.)
• Steam and maybe Proton but idk.
• the atom thing could be protondb.com, where you can look up if your game will run on linux and what fixes / commands are available

Proton is a fork of Wine. It was created by Valve and they have done amazing work getting it to support basically everything. It's made the steam deck and amazing machine.

It's not so much Linux catching up as it is making games compatible (and in most cases run just as well as native Linux games) that weren't made for Linux in the first place. And that's pretty insane. Thank you Valve 🙏😔

Right? All of these comments are like "it's just as easy as gaming on Windows. I just have to make sure I run these specific commands in my terminal or my PC bricks, nothing runs as well as on Windows unless you have 20 years of experience with Linux, and you still need to keep a dual boot of Windows for those pesky games that aren't Linux-friendly (re: 99.9% of games). I'm so much happier on Linux and will never look back!~~please shoot me in the face now and end my pain~~ I'm so happy!"

Like whatever lies you guys need to tell yourselves lol. I'll stick with Windows until it's as easy as hitting play. Also would be nice if the UI didn't look straight out of 1995.

Protontricks also helps here.

So? I am using linux (arch btw) with a 3090 without problems.

I use a GTX 970, I can play most games just fine.

It's not Windows performance, Cyberpunk 2077 for instance was quite more unstable for me on Arch and it took quite a bit of tweaking to be able to launch it (it's a miracle that I can even play Cyberpunk with a 970 in both cases :P). Generally though I've had a pretty good experience, most games play out of the box with good performance, and I get to daily drive Linux finally

I have a Nvidia Tesla K80 and couldn't even set it up on Windows

am poor

own Alienware PC and Steam deck

Yeah... that's not what being poor is.

1. Download Nobara OS (Linux distro optimized for gaming by default)

2. Set up dual boot with both Linux/Nobara and Windows so you can boot into either.

You can just delete windows entirely later if you find yourself not using it. That's what I ended up doing after a few months of dual booting.

Morrowind goes brr

Hmm I find that the performance gain on games like D4 and Elden Ring are significant enough for me to boot over to my windows disk (much to my chagrin). Do you have any specific tweaks for those games. The performance isn't always terrible for those games on my Linux system but it's enough to affect gameplay occasionally.

Its shader compilation that made elden ring at launch a better experience on linux than windows, because the windows build had a broken shader compiler causing microstutters.

Dual booting isnt that finnicky. Just dual boot until youre certain that there's nothing you need in your life that you cant get running under Linux. I dont understand why everyone wants you to switch so quickly when there is no harm in going at your own pace.