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Fedora Games Lab Looks To Be Revitalized As Modern Linux Gaming Showcase (www.phoronix.com)
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One of the lesser known Fedora spins under the "Fedora Labs" initiative is the Fedora Games Lab that showcases some open-source games and can serve as an easy demonstrator for Linux gaming. Looking forward to 2026 with Fedora 44, there is a proposal to revitalize Fedora Games Lab to become a better showcase for the modern potential of Linux gaming.

Fedora Games Lab as it is right now just is a showcase of Fedora with the Xfce desktop and installing a few open-source games by default. They include classic titles such as BZFlag and Freeciv to games popular among Linux die-hards like Extreme Tux Racer as well as some more well known open-source game efforts like Battle for Wesnoth and Warzone 2100.

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[-] snowsuit2654@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I've been using Bazzite for about two months now and it's great how well it works right out of the box with Steam and Heroic Launcher (GOG, EGS, and Amazon).

My one gripe is how difficult it is to get anything that's not on one of those stores to work. I had a really hard time getting Battle.net games to work, although I finally persevered. I gave up trying to get a mobile game running in a VM (I think this one was due to my graphics card not being supported by Waydroid) and I also gave up on Minecraft Bedrock edition (my friend has a server there and it doesn't have cross play with Java edition).

I fear that the moment I really want to play a game that isn't on one of those 4 stores, I'm going to cave and go back to Windows. Trying to stay strong ✊😔

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