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[–] [email protected] 90 points 11 months ago (5 children)

Gaming on Linux is pretty legit now. I don't even boot into windows very often. In recent memory, only one AAA game didn't work out of the box for me that required booting into windows.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 11 months ago (1 children)

No joke, most of my games work better on Linux because of proton than my Windows box. Such a nice experience.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (3 children)

Same here. Linux just need rolling gameplay recording and better controller support (steering wheels for one) and for me it'd be set. I know Decky has it for the Steam Deck but I haven't seen one for desktop that works fine on Wayland.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Have a rather „expensive“ sim racing rig and would love to switch over to Linux again. But it’s simply a niche in a niche so I don’t expect any surprises in the near future. Too bad

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, sim racing is very much left out in the Linux world, if not pretty janky. Virtual reality isn't doing too hot here either, Valve just announced Steam Link for the Oculus headsets, and right now it's Windows only.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

TBF I haven't actually tried Asetto Corsa with my steering wheel, or XPlane with my VR headset on Linux yet I just assumed it wouldn't work. As soon as they do, I can't wait to shitcan Windows forever.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I've tried Euro Truck Sim 2 with my G29, which was built for PlayStation but can work on PC with drivers on both Windows and Linux. On Linux, PS4 mode doesn't work on Linux, but PS3 mode does - the main thing is you lose the speed indicators on your wheel, if you really want them speed lights you'll have to go Windows and install G HUB.

Some say PS3 mode disables clutch support since that was the case when using it on a PS3 but IDK if this is the case on PC and specifically Linux. Cursory search points towards no.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

That's useful to know that it at least mostly works. I should really try it out with my Thrustmaster T300, I could be pleasantly surprised. I use an Oculus Quest 2 headset, which requires Meta's app to run on Windows, so not sure how that would pan out.

If I could one day be playing BeamNG, with my FFB wheel, in VR, on Linux - I will have truly attained nirvana.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Highly recommend this feels exactly like I still have shadowplay with no performance loss.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

So far black desert online is the only game that I've wanted to play that I can't on Linux (eac is awful). I know there are others, but it's mainly fps games that bother with windows-only eac and I don't play fps games all that much. Battlebit is probably the only fps I've been playing in the past few months, and they use/will be using a linux-compatible eac version which I'm jazzed about

[–] moomoomoo309 13 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (4 children)

Actually, EAC has a Proton-compatible build, the devs just have to use it. It's not a hard switch, they just have to choose to allow Linux compatibility, which most devs (well, really it's probably an exec level decision) do not.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

In black desert’s case, there’s no chance they would ever allow anyone to play without a kernel anti cheat, which EAC doesn’t allow on linux. The game is literally all grind, if bots could run on linux it would absolutely ravage the already shit economy.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] moomoomoo309 1 points 11 months ago

That's unfortunate, but not surprising. I can't exactly expect Epic to port the wine compatible version to the old release, so it makes sense.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

From the controversy around battlebit using eac, apparently the eac version that is just a checkmark for proton/Linux support is not a drop in replacement for the regular one that is more popular. The one with that option would require a lot of refactoring code, and doesn't have all of the features of the main eac unfortunately.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

I only ever boot Windows for VR. That's it

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

I gave up on trying BattleBit for free on Ubuntu 22.04 this weekend, no Proton or GE-Proton version would run that motherfucker.

I didn't feel like booting Windows.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Modding can be an issue though.

Btw, does Wallabag work now on Linux?

And i don't get Reshade since 5.* to work in wine/proton anymore?