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My gf doesn't really notice she plays on Linux or she just does not care. (feddit.org)
submitted 3 weeks ago by lokalhorst@feddit.org to c/linux_gaming@lemmy.world
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I am and always was a casual gamer, I like playing puzzles, strategy and builder games, sometimes I play with friends some 7 days to die or AoE2. I am on Linux Mint for more than a year now and was surprised how easy gaming was. From time to time I had problems with weird DirectX error messages, but all in all everything just worked.

My setup:

  • AMD Ryzen 5 3600
  • GeForce GTX 1660 Super
  • 32 GB DDR4 RAM

So last week my girlfriend worked on my computer (we are not living together), she wrote some bills for customers and did some table stuff in calc. When I asked her at the end of the day how it was to work on Linux, she shrugged and said "Oh I didn't notice" lol (using Cinnamon as DE btw).

Today she bought Until Dawn the remake on Steam while she is here and because she really wanted to play she downloaded it to my PC. She just started to play and everything was great. I wondered again if I should say something like "you see how great you can game in Linux", but then it came to my mind - she doesn't care and she didn't even question it! The Linux Desktop got so mature, that non-tech people just don't notice!

I think the biggest "problem" with Linux adoption is that it does not come preinstalled on computers, and this kind of proves my point I guess.

Yeah that's all, I just wanted to share this with you guys.

P.S.: There were some bugs btw. but it turned out they have nothing to do with the OS.

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[–] Canuck@sh.itjust.works 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

My biggest issue with games is that they still don't _just work_™, all the time, and they need to be seemless for people like that.

You download a game on a couple devices it doesn't work on one, or you need to tune the configuration, or even when it does start there are sometimes graphical issues (unrelated to GPU capability, like not all layers rendering), or ghost input (one game I have circles round and round like the R joystick was glued right even with just a mouse and keyboard), or modern games designed to work only with a mouse when the developer could have easily supported keyboard and controller.

[–] addie@feddit.uk 14 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

A couple of years ago, I might have still checked protondb for Linux compatibility before making a purchase, but it seems a waste of time now. Everything that I've bought through Steam, or bought on GoG / claimed for free on Epic through Heroic has Just Worked, and has done for years. I think it got better when the Steam Deck was released; put a lot of visibility on Linux compatibility.

If you aren't in to AAA, and even then only the competitive multiplayer with intrusive anticheat, then Linux is all you need.

[–] TheTetrapod@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

I can barely get anything to run on Mint, but it probably has more to do with the fact my desktop is 14 years old and I refuse to put any money into upgrading it.

[–] forestbeasts@pawb.social 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Yeah, 14 years might do it. Does your GPU have Vulkan support?

If not, yeahhhh, that'll make basically anything not run

A slightly newer but still cheap GPU might work wonders. RX 580s are pretty cheap ($60 last we looked?) and if you can afford that, it'll get you Vulkan support.

-- Frost

[–] ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 weeks ago

I got an old RX 570 running on Bazzite that hasn't had issues that weren't related to using the same Steam installations on an SSD from when it was on Windows. I didn't even reinstall the games.

To me, even with those isolated bugs, is a pretty impressive feat.

[–] lyralycan@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Idk, my partner has an RTX 1650 but the PC runs Mint, is a Dell Optiplex 990 with stock mid-2011 mobo, Intel i5-2400 CPU and 20GB DDR3-1333 RAM (8+8+2+2). It runs really well, considering.

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

I had a much less severe version of that issue when I first switched to Linux. Games were really struggling to run, but it turns out struggling running bg3 off an hdd with only 8gb ram is a hardware issue. I just hadn't really played much that had significant hardware requirements in several years at that point