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I really want to jump but dual boot. I can’t seem to get my games to work. I just don’t know how to get past the issues I see.
Using steam and proton, the supported games just work. You can also set steam to try proton on games with no known support, and it often also just works. If a game do not work, I just return it.
My steam backlog is enough for a liftetime of playing.Did you try Lutris? Most of the games works like a charm.
Got Cyberpunk (GOG one) running with raytracing and mods via Lutrix + ProtonGE. Smooth enough on 3080/UWQHD
my biggest gripe with gaming on linux is little issues all over the place even in simple games. Like in celeste, older versions of terraria and most other FNA/XNA games (linux-native) steam overlay doesn’t render at all on amd gpus. Kinda annoying, especially with big picture mode…
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When you don’t use windows for a few months, you’ll feel like that on first boot. ‘Oh, you haven’t used this program on your desktop in a while (lists entire desktop). You want me to clean it up into a folder, because you don’t use it anyway? I would also like to attend you to some urgent updates you need to install right now, and after that I have updates for your updates waiting, like 3 increments in a row with reboots each.’ And of course, during the chore of updating, Edge appears and becomes your default browser. Take that you dirty cheater!
That just reminds me why I left in the first place. Bye!
Edge appears and becomes your default browser.
I have to use Edge at work and after a recent update it disabled the adblocking extension I used because “it might have been tampered with”. It also offered a nice Repair button which…uninstalled the extension completely.
Edge is hostile to its users and should never ever be used.
It is not hostile it is abusively helpful! It will force you into the best experience of the web, just sit still you silly goose!
Firefox is bad about this too. “We see you haven’t opened Firefox in a while, would you like us to delete everything and start over?” Nope… I just wanted to look up how long a Dodge Durango is, using the settings and everything else I already had and clearly didn’t change.
But hey, he opened a new tab for you (What’s new in version xxx; Thanks for using firefox…) so you can go looking right away! 😂
My Windows partition is a vm that has its own 4060Ti and that I use via looking glass.
So it should behave or the host will just kill it off.
Everything I want to play runs on Linux and the couple that don’t are because of EAC, which I can’t be bothered with. I’ve completely cut Windows out of my life.
I’m in the honeymoon stage but I’ve left win 11 behind earlier this week. Jump full into it I am loving pop_os… the tiling feature is a refreshing thing I didn’t know I needed. I’m hooked to it already. Flatpak is something else new for me that I’m really enjoying the thought of. Really like all the seamlessness of the virtual desktops too. Pop calls them workspaces. I can send windows to another workspace. Keep selectef ones on all workspaces. I’m a devops that has been using wsl for anything I needed Linux locally for since it came out. Now that I know how to interact with Linux and my remaining Windows infrastructure at work (primarily Ad) I am full into it. The only game I’ve spun up on it so far was cyberpunk 2077 and it runs great on it. Got Plex going, virtual machines, docker/podman, the foss possibilities are awesome. Really enjoying freetube right now too.
That was fun realizing why my multiplayer sessions kept getting shut down on Ghost Recon Wildlands. Finally realized it was that shit EAC not playing nicely with SteamOS on my Steam Deck.
A big fuck you to Ubisoft. I just wanted to play a session with my brother.
Ubisoft sucks. I’m still mad that they to this day refuse to add Linux compatibility to The Crew 2 despite BattlEye supporting Linux. It’s basically the only game I have that I can’t run on Linux due to an anti-cheat, and I really miss playing it since I like open-world racing games… Their launcher also doesn’t run on Wine last time I tried, either. (I hope that at least changed since then?)
You know, here’s the funny thing about Ghost Recon Wildlands.
Ubisoft and Riot really need to have a talk, because the Valorant anticheat fucks with the Ubisoft anticheat. In the end, I couldn’t even run Wildlands on Windows until I uninstalled Valorant and its anticheat. It’s too bad that such a fun co-op game is stuck behind some of the most obnoxious “protection” on the market.
Heck several games the do use EAC work now. Valve flexed some muscle and got compatibility with Proton pushed through.
Meanwhile, my Windows partition back in 2017:
Same, right after Windows 10 nuked my network drivers via any automated update that happened while I wasn’t home
I never sullied my computer with Windows 10. The last version of Windows I used was 7, and I ditched it for good when Microsoft started trying to backport 10’s malware (euphemized as “telemetry”) to it.
Windows-free since ‘93…
Has a nice ring to it… … ‘23 be free. It’s never too late.
the games i play work perfectly, although i don’t play multiplayer (other than Minecraft) so i guess thats why
On pop_os I had great success with proton until I had to wipe my os and reload. Before, most of my games worked well. Cyberpunk 2077 actually ran faster than on Windows. After the wipe, I literally cannot get a single game to run and I really don’t feel like troubleshooting so I keep returning to windows. I hate it. And yes, I have an Nvidia card and have tried several driver versions
Maybe check your kernel version? Is it the same major version like the one before the wipe? Nvidia drivers can behave differently on different kernel version (assuming you use an Nvidia card).
This is a good point. Would the version numbers displayed from
apt list --installedbe what I’m looking for?As it happens I do keep a git repo that keeps a log of that information. I see that after reinstall,
linux-image-*andlinux-headers-*packages have the same actual version numbers but there are some other values in that same listing that have changed a bit. Some look like git commit hashes. I dunno.I did start with a different, updated Pop!_OS image this time. I’ve considered wiping again using the older image which I still have. I figured that using the new one would be best and just avoid the need for a few GB of updates but looking at the diff of the installed packages (and looking at differences in how I was able to resolve some random issues, for example previously I had pulse installed for audio stuff, now I do not, it’s a different app), it seems like a lot of the OS internals are rather different…
If only. Usually my Manjaro partition is chill, but the moment I step foot in Windows 11, it throws a pissy fit and breaks something it shouldn’t even have access to.
If Linux just calls you a cheater, Microsoft sets you and everything you love on fire to make a point.
Windows: “Looks like your bootloader was corrupted. I went ahead and reinstall it. No need to thank me, I was just doing my job. What’s that? Grub? Nope, never heard of that guy.”
at this point I’m just going to have my hard drives externally and just have windows on one and Linux on the other and depending on which one I want to boot I connect it and disconnect the other
Yes, precisely! Haha
Windows: “While updating I found out that some weird thing was set as first boot priority. I fixed that by setting it to myself. You are welcome!”
Garuda / win11 dualboot here.
When I go back to Garuda I find my display settings out of whack. Usually 800x640 resolution and desktop image back to default.
When I go back to win11 i find the timezone changed.
So dual boot is annoying for both in my experience
Ok, at least that explains that. Thanks ^^ didn’t have to switch that often so never bothered looking for a solution. So you spared me some searching, many thanks!
The clock thing is normal. Windows doesn’t like UTC clocks with local adjustment for timezone like every sane system does it.
About the resolution issue. Did you deactivate fast boot in Windows. That’s a bullshit feature decreasing boot time by not actually shutting off. It’s some kind of hybrid standby. And it can lead to all kinds of problems, like for example not properly shutting down and releasing control over hardware. Which then leads to stuff like graphics or network cards not working properly in linux.
Thought I had but I double checked and it turns out to be enabled. Turned it off, we’ll see if that helps, thanks.
Amazing, thank you for the link.
Recently migrated to Endeavor and have Windows for Rainbow Six Siege (anticheat isn’t setup to work with Proton). Was curious why the clock was always wrong.
Haha, I forgot it also broke the clock. But as others explained, it’s fixable.
Lol, I killed manjaro twice 😂 it’s just too easy for Noobs to enable AUR
Using AUR with Manjaro is dangerous cause of their stupid and useless 2 weeks rule. I would use EndevourOS or just not using the AUR
In my case, I got a little too confident and messed around with drivers to get stable situation to work. Oops.
But in the times windows kills something… aside from messing with my boot loader (always install windows first, then Linux), it also managed to break my wifi drivers to the point that it would blue screen my windows AND prevent Manjaro from booting (and once fixed, not connect to Internet via Wi-Fi).
With proton, this is less and less the case.
It’s just a even more evil cheating if still do it
what is proton? what does it do?
Proton is a translation layer that uses Wine and other tricks to allow you to run Windows games on Linux. It’s a Valve project that is making a ton of progress on compatibility. It’s a huge part of the success of the Steam Deck.
A compatibility layer that lets you run native windows games on Linux through Steam. It’s gotten better and better over the years and supports a majority of popular games now.
Was amazed at how good this is.
Indeed, God bless proton
if only I could multibox.
turns out a compatibility layer takes up system resources. who knew.
edit: also fuck minimize on focus loss, I’m not even sorry for my Windows partition while that’s a thing.
Basically, I tried proton and I’ll never go back.
The overhead of windows is so heavy
I just made the jump again and I don’t think I’ll be going back to Windows. I’m getting improved performance in many of my favourite titles.
Very happy to be free of windows finally.
If rainbow 6 ever gets Linux support, I think I can fully uninstall windows. Unfortunately if I need to have windows installed for something, I might as well compartmentalize Linux for productivity, and windows for gaming
This is understandable, I still have a Win10 install on a separate disk in case I want to run VR on my Oculus CV1. Otherwise it’s all Linux babyyyy
I’ve recently installed Linux. Have a hdd full with steam games (for windows) Is there any way to get that to work without needing to format the drive and install the games again? Looked a bit at it but every article seems to suggest formating the drive to get it to work with proton.
It’s technically possible but not recommended as the NTFS format has some quirks under Linux. Give yourself the best chance at everything working and do full reinstalls after a format.
“Has some quirks” is putting it mildly. I had a couple of drives that I thought were dead because I kept getting errors. I reformatted them to ext4 and they were fine.
I think the real gamechanger was Vulkan. OpenGL was just not suited for this.
I wish I could fully abandon my windows partition, but sadly my sim racing peripherals don’t all work on Linux, and I bought those before I started thinking about switching.
I have no reason to keep my Windows partition, but it shipped with the computer, and I don’t want to throw away a perfectly good Windows license if I need it for something down the road. I tried looking up how to save it to re-use it later and setting up a dual boot seemed easier, so I just did that.
Every time I’ve had a windows install come with my computer, there has been a sticker somewhere with the serial key. I’ve even been able to reuse that key for other computers before.
What sim racing stuff? It was a pain, but I got my thrustmaster working. Logitech and fanatec I believe both have drivers too
I have simforge pedals, vrs direct drive wheel, a Chinese knock off h pattern shifter, and a moza Hand break. The hand break is the only one that works without any tinkering. I couldn’t get the pedals to work at all, and the wheel doesn’t register properly so I haven’t been able to get that working either sadly.
Ah that’s unfortunate. Hopefully someday it gets sorted out.
Not OP but a curious lurker, how hard was it to get your Thrustmaster to work on Linux? I’ve been hoping to buy a racing wheel for some racing games I play and I assumed all of them worked fine on Linux (mostly since my knockoff third-party PS4-style gamepads worked immediately), is that actually not the case? :/
To be fair, I was mostly aiming to buy a Logitech wheel, so I’m not sure how the experience will differ frrom Thrustmaster. But the older G27 wheels are more affordable and I’m not sure if they’ll have trouble or not.
It was a bit of a pain, but there are a few repos helping make it easy. I had to grab the USB vendor ID and update a config file, but now I just run one script every time I want to use it and it feels great. Everything feels the same as on windows and I finally deleted my secondary partition.
I think the Logitech wheels are easier to get set up. Way fewer models and way more people have them. I’d search around and find something on GitHub and make sure it’s working though
Jokes aside, are there still games that doesn’t work on Linux? I haven’t met one in over a year.
Same here. Ended up deleting my windows partition altogether after a few months.
I’m very proud to announce that 98% of my steam titles play perfect on my gaming Linux setup. I main Pop!_os and I love it so much.
Tarkov runs perfect but its 3rd party anti cheat doesn’t support Linux so it’s not playable online.
Certain games from the Xbox Microsoft store like halo wars 2 cannot run on Linux, PC or Xbox only. Very few exceptions. Couldn’t he happier. I highly recommend it
Games that calculate a lot of pathfinding or similar in the GPU will end in a CPU-melting stutter fairly soon when run on Vulcan.
Satisfactory is a good example or this: It quickly becomes unplayable with any halfway complex setup.
If you’ve got a Linux native version, then you’re fine.
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Some games with intrusive DRM or anticheat. Also VR is pretty bad
I bet that wife wishes she has anti-cheat.
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I have a dualboot because I had something to finish that couldn’t be realistically moved to Linux because I put the required files all over the Windows system instead of 1 easily movable folder. Anyway, I am lazy to finish that. It’s been 2 years since I booted up that Windows.
I left due to not being able to open 2 settings menus. I am not putting up with that bullshit.
This is fake, where is the wrong system time? 😂
timedatectl set-local-rtc 1
Windows is in the wrong, not Linux.
reg.exe add HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\TimeZoneInformation /v RealTimeIsUniversal /t REG_DWORD /d 1 /f
I have a Quest 2 VR headset that I use for playing sim racing like Assetto Corsa, and flight sim on Xplane 11. To use that I have to open up Meta’s Quest app, connect the headset to the computer over the WIFI, and it sorta functions like a monitor. In that I can view the whole Windows desktop environment on a virtual screen floating in VR space. When you open a VR game like Xplane you stop seeing the floating monitor, and it takes over the whole VR eye space for the duration you play it.
Is this type of thing also possible on Ubuntu? If so, I’ll shitcan Windows ASAP.
Quest 2 owner here, your best bet is trying ALVR as virtual desktop straight up doesn’t support Linux, but honestly YMMV. I daily drive linux and have done so for awhile now, I’ve found performance for most games these days, usually runs on par with Windows. But I found the performance for VR much much worse (with a 6700xt}. . Not to mention I was getting a long standing bug that valve hadn’t fixed in fucking years on SteamVR in linux the last time I tried it. Although maybe that’s changed since SteamVR 2.0.
I’d happily try again if my quest 2 didn’t have mad stick drift and no amount of cleaning the contacts seems to be fixing it :(
