Welcome to the club! Linux gaming is light years better than it's ever been before. I don't miss Windows at all and 95% of games I try seem to work now with only modest tinkering at most. Tell your friends!

I finally plan to wipe my Windows PC and install SteamOS on it after the forced push to Windows 12. The requirement to have a connected account just to login is a complete dealbreaker for a machine that I only play games on. I don’t need OneDrive. I don’t need to be connected to Microsoft’s portals. I’ll never need to recover anything on here via the web.

RIP to the local admin account. You were awesome. Thanks for making the switch easy, Microsoft.

I've been trying to help my roommate get games working on pop_os via proton / lutris because his windows install broke, and we just cannot make any game work. Games that say they should work on protondb just won't start no matter what we try. I wish I knew what we were doing wrong. Would love to play Baldurs Gate 3 with him again.

I tried a couple of times already, but always feel it's not quite ready yet.. Games not starting or running slower, etc. Running latest Ubuntu, Wayland and new PC with an RTX4060ti. What am I doing wrong?

I have a couple games that don't work, but yeah, these days it's very rare for something not to work. I don't bother checking ProtonDB any more to see if there are any known issues before buying something.

The only one I care about much that doesn't work is Command: Modern Operations; there's not really much by way of competition out there for it.

One other benefit -- I don't know if this is still an issue on Windows -- but there are historically a couple of fullscreen games that dealt very poorly on Windows with being alt-tabbed out of, because the game needs to restore context when things come back, and some games didn't do well at that. Steam doesn't explicitly expose this as a feature in the UI, but you can just fire up winecfg on a Proton prefix and then ask that a virtual desktop be emulated for that prefix, and the application will be unaware of it if you go switch to another workspace or something. As far as it knows, it's still in the front and running fullscreen.

Yesterday I went and got a pcie nvme adapter (my two motherboard slots are taken up by windows+gaming drive). Added in a 2TB to the adapter and installed Garuda linux - based on Arch.

So far it has been great. A couple little things popped up, like adding panels to the other two side monitors. But quick searches online and everything has been working very smoothly. I even put chrome on for work stuff so I don't have to use the company-given laptop. -- Side note, if anyone knows of a way to container that chrome install so work stuff is super separate, please share. --

Like another comment mentioned, some games won't work either because of anti-cheat that isn't enabled for linux, or just not good proton support. But for the most part I can still play 90% of the games I normally do: DRG, CS2, Darktide, battlebit, etc. Hopefully the times I need to reboot into windows are rare, because this has been a great experience. Way better than years ago when I tried to make the switch but gaming support just wasn't where I needed it.

Welcome to the club!

The only game I can’t play is rocket league.

Have you tried it on Heroic Games Launcher yet? I play RL from time to time with a buddy, and both of us have gotten it to work without any notable issues via Heroic.

I've been so eager to try it out, but also a bit hesitant to make the jump. I should check out the compatibility of the main games I play. Mostly worried that EA or something might screw me over on certain games. And I really CBA to run a dual boot setup.

For some reason I still feel like a windows update is capable of fucking it up by messing with bios settings or something along the lines.

I switched 2 weeks ago, 12% of my years playtime is on Linux now. Should I be concerned about how active I am?

For Rocket league you need to manually enable proton under properties.

Its running without problems for me now

Linux gaming all the way! "Just tried a VR game on someone else's machine."