@rolle I'm looking to put Linux on my gaming machine what distro you using? I mostly use Steam for games too.

@rolle I had this revelation about ... I think four years ago, when I suddenly realized Skyrim works out of the box on Linux Steam, and not just works but runs perfectly, and at least as fast. It never crashed a lot for me on Windows either, but it has never done it on Linux. And when you take away the PITA of rebooting to Windows and suffering through hours of upgrade churn and reboots and all just to play a game on a rainy day, I rediscovered my long lost love for gaming again.

GTA 5 also worked just fine when I tried it, but I didn't care for it enough for a proper replay. And incredibly, so did BG3 and Cyberpunk 2077. On a 14 year old desktop PC that is way underspecced for either. These two push the display adapter hard enough that it reveals some thermal management issues in the driver/hardware, I need to force it to stay out of the high power states to prevent occasional crashes. Mildly annoying but far, far less so than rebooting to Windows to play a game.

Valve has done an *incredible* job on improving the Linux gaming experience, not just on packaging all the wacko Wine tricks for running games neatly out of sight and mind in Steam, but also general infrastructure work in the kernel, vulkan and whatnot.

#valve #proton #steam #linuxgaming

@rolle If only there was Afterburner equivalent, right now my graphics card becomes a noisy space-heater when gaming on Linux. On Windows I was able to undervolt it without taking a performance hit.

@rolle has Nvidia fixed their Linux drivers? CS2 has been really buggy on Linux.

@rolle Without windows I would be able to see my garden…

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KDE seems to use more vram than windows ;___;

+ kernel leve spywa- anti-cheats

@rolle Careful, Overwatch 2 can start crashing after 10 minutes or so if you have the wrong proton version set. If you set it to use Proton Hotfix, you're good.

@rolle And that's just for a program where the manufacturer refuses to release a Linux version. There are no alternatives to this software, and I am legally obliged to use it.

if i may ask, do you run OW through steam?

@rolle People who would want to play The Alters ;)