โฒ 581 โผ Meme moment when talking to my friend about her PC gaming rig (media.kbin.social) submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by cacheson@kbin.social to c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world 131 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[+] parpol@programming.dev 4 points 2 years ago (3 children) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 6 child comments replies: [โ] yokonzo@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago right and wrong, games play nowadays, but good luck getting the same accessibility and flexibility as windows, you wanna download a cool new mod? No problem! Oops but the mod loader is only windows based and gives wine a seizure, you can probably do it, but not without an hour or more of work, not exactly casual user friendly quite yet. And god forbid the game uses a special pheriphal permalink fedilink source parent [โ] xkforce@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago It is literally happening with Kubuntu 22.04. permalink fedilink source parent [โ] Moc@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago* (1 child) No, they are right. It took an enormous amount of fiddling for me to get games working on Debian 12 permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [โ] yiliu@informis.land 5 points 2 years ago (1 child) I've been using Steam in FlatPak on NixOS for a couple years now. The only games I've found that didn't work were due to anti-cheat rootkit stuff, which would probably be a bigger deal if I cared about online gaming. And I've had to change the Proton version a couple times, because the beta (default) seems to break a game occasionally. Overall: it's astoundingly good compared to where it was 5+ years ago. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [โ] Moc@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) I agree with you, but itโs just not ready for the average person. Case in point: regardless of which version of Steam I install it goes into a crash-restart cycle if I open it from gnome. The only way to run it is to type โsteamโ in the console. The issue persists regardless of whether I use the .deb or flatpak. permalink fedilink source parent
[โ] yokonzo@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago right and wrong, games play nowadays, but good luck getting the same accessibility and flexibility as windows, you wanna download a cool new mod? No problem! Oops but the mod loader is only windows based and gives wine a seizure, you can probably do it, but not without an hour or more of work, not exactly casual user friendly quite yet. And god forbid the game uses a special pheriphal permalink fedilink source parent
[โ] xkforce@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago It is literally happening with Kubuntu 22.04. permalink fedilink source parent
[โ] Moc@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago* (1 child) No, they are right. It took an enormous amount of fiddling for me to get games working on Debian 12 permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [โ] yiliu@informis.land 5 points 2 years ago (1 child) I've been using Steam in FlatPak on NixOS for a couple years now. The only games I've found that didn't work were due to anti-cheat rootkit stuff, which would probably be a bigger deal if I cared about online gaming. And I've had to change the Proton version a couple times, because the beta (default) seems to break a game occasionally. Overall: it's astoundingly good compared to where it was 5+ years ago. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [โ] Moc@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) I agree with you, but itโs just not ready for the average person. Case in point: regardless of which version of Steam I install it goes into a crash-restart cycle if I open it from gnome. The only way to run it is to type โsteamโ in the console. The issue persists regardless of whether I use the .deb or flatpak. permalink fedilink source parent
[โ] yiliu@informis.land 5 points 2 years ago (1 child) I've been using Steam in FlatPak on NixOS for a couple years now. The only games I've found that didn't work were due to anti-cheat rootkit stuff, which would probably be a bigger deal if I cared about online gaming. And I've had to change the Proton version a couple times, because the beta (default) seems to break a game occasionally. Overall: it's astoundingly good compared to where it was 5+ years ago. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [โ] Moc@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) I agree with you, but itโs just not ready for the average person. Case in point: regardless of which version of Steam I install it goes into a crash-restart cycle if I open it from gnome. The only way to run it is to type โsteamโ in the console. The issue persists regardless of whether I use the .deb or flatpak. permalink fedilink source parent
[โ] Moc@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) I agree with you, but itโs just not ready for the average person. Case in point: regardless of which version of Steam I install it goes into a crash-restart cycle if I open it from gnome. The only way to run it is to type โsteamโ in the console. The issue persists regardless of whether I use the .deb or flatpak. permalink fedilink source parent
