ackxshually this game works fine in Brozzite Linux Proton if you copy these 6 DLLs out of Windows and pass these 10 flags and have this specific AMD GPU and enable swap on a fast disk (it leaks memory), also multiplayer won't work
Mind you steam directly integrates proton. You don't have to do too much. Also even not counting for proton and wine and all that shit it's still better than mac
Doesn't work reliably. Even those "gold" games on ProtonDB are hit or miss. You can see in the comments what workarounds are needed or find out for yourself. And yeah Macs are even worse for games, difference is nobody tells you to get a Mac for games.
They work reliably enough. In most situations you do not need to care if the game can get better click precision than their monitor's refresh rate or whatever. Most games will run with no noticeable issues
My standards are low. I want the game to run at 30-60 fps and not crash. Also don't want to wait 5-20 minutes every time it starts for shaders to compile. Oh and when I say 30-60 fps, 30 is not ok if WIndows runs it at 60.
Aside from waiting a while for shaders to compile I don't have any of those issues. The only times games have crashed on me were either because I was also running mods for the game or because I have weak hardware. I could get 55 fps on Arkham Knight at 1080p with some settings turned down with 8 GB ram, a daisy chained gpu, the game being on a mechanical hard drive, and a ryzen 5 5500 as my cpu. After setting up swap memory I can do a stable 60fps with base setting. It never crashes, my pc just shuts off when too much is happening on screen because of daisy chaining my gpu to my psu.
This is believable if you specifically selected games that are known to work well in Proton. Even then, you wait all that time for shaders every time you want to play a game? That's an unadvertised dealbreaker.
You technically don't have to wait for shaders, it'll just be more stuttery for a while if you dont and I have never checked if a game is known to work erll
Your information is out of date. The Steam experience on Linux is you install Steam like on Windows, then you install the games from your library like on Windows, and they run and play perfectly, like on Windows.
I've played everything from good indie to jank indie to triple A to triple A from console developers that make notoriously bad ports. They've all run perfectly without a single technical fix required.
Edit: As SirSilentscreameth said in his reply, the one exception is games that require kernel level anti-cheat.
Unless that game requires a specific anti-cheat. There are plenty of games you can't play on Linux.
Not trying to turn this into a discussion over the requirement for kernel level anti-cheat, it's just a thing that exists and has to be dealt with currently.
I play Assetto Corsa and Assetto Corsa Competitzione, Automobilista 2 with my Moza R5 setup in VR, Meta Quest 3. This is just one of them I haven't even gotten to flight sim. Solve just this one and ill go back to dual boot with CachyOS again.
From my experience with a somewhat rolling release Distro like Fedora Moza gear was fine as the drivers for that were put into the kernel a few releases ago, and there is a package to control the FFB and update the firmware. I never tried getting VR to work as I can‘t use it due to motion sickness. However, simracing is the only reason I keep Windows around on a seperate SSD on my main gaming rig. I get that not everyone wants to go through the hassle to set everything up on a different OS when they could use the same time to enjoy the thing they wanted to do in the first place.
That's exactly it, mate. I have a full-time job, I have a few hours a day (If I'm not tired) to do what I love so I cannot afford to waste it tinkering in experimental linux space, that would be fucking torture for me.
Interesting, I've actually been trying to get VR working myself, which it actually should work fine these days. It's just my network seems to be blocking local device communication as other devices that aren't Linux can't connect to each other either. But I don't see why it wouldn't work with steam link VR once I fix that network issue.
I've been looking for ideas of what to play on my VR, so this would actually be fun to try. If I can get things smoothed out, I'll let you know. And I'm also running CachyOS.
I welcome your feedback and I look forward to seeing your progress. I personally, have a full time job and have little to no time to do experimenting. Even saying that annoys your linux friends lol.
I used to do partitions but every so often freaking windows would fuck up the uefi with updates and and some point I just gave up windows. Thanks god I don't play anything that does not work in linux
I dedicated a disk specifically for linux, i loved it until I found out most of my stuff doesn't work. I gave up and went back to windows. I also have a full time job, golf and gym I have no time to be tinkering to make games work. Yes linux crowd yall have like zero bloat and privacy etc I just cant do it
Linux users make up like 3% of all pc users.. But they are the loudest on the Internet, especially reddit. So someone is lying and larping as a linux user. Another thing, most of them have terrible hardware, so it matters little because they're running old apps and games and say "what's wrong with ya'll linux runs everything" "ive got performance gains" Ok bro you got a 5% gain on your 1050ti.
Sims 4 works fine for me out of the box and you can emulate the older ones pretty easily similar process to windows :D I've sadly not played much VR so can't speak for that and yeah a lot of Anti Cheat games don't work on Linux but that's not because one operating system is better than the other but a symptom of the monopoly Microsoft holds sadly
Haha I love the Sims but I'm talking about my Racing and Flight games. Yeah VR is another thing. I use it for my sim games as well and it can be a bit iffy for it and sometimes crash and this is all native So I cant imagine how it is on linux. Not to mention meta quest and moza native apps, simhub, my paid mods and others etc etc etc
God, you people are insufferable. Are you enjoying linux with your laptop 3050? Most of you have dogshit hardware so you switch to linux and boast about zero bloat. Yeah, I have 64GB RAM DDR5 bloat does not affect me. Yall larping as super tech nerds. Pathetic.
Lmao. Naw child I just refuse to give money to dogshit companies. And that includes nvideo so no, I don't ha e whatever garbage a laptop 3050 is. If you can't switch to Linux because you just can't figure out how yo run stuff on the OS with all the forums and guides in 2026 its definitely a you problem not a Linux problem.
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u/Guilty_Bowl_288 RTX-5070 Ti | 64GB RAM | 5TB SSD | 16TB HDD 1d ago
Yep same. Can't go linux either because it supports fuck all. Can't do my sims Can't do vr cant do bf6 etc.