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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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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