Is Linux Mint okay for games?
Just tried it in a VM and was surprised it doesn't look like vomit all over my screen anymore.
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Is Linux Mint okay for games?
Just tried it in a VM and was surprised it doesn't look like vomit all over my screen anymore.
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mostly yeah
I'm using it right now and works reasonably okay, although I'm a huge loonix nerd and can walk my way around the quirks and shit of linux.
If your hardware is 3+ years old it should be ok.
Keep in mind that if you're a Windows user and don't have a particular reason to use Linux then switching is most likely going to be a waste of effort for you.
It's all right. It works for me, anyway. is probably right about hardware, because Mint doesn't exactly use the latest kernel or packages, but it does have some kind of kernel upgrade feature which you could use if the default kernel doesn't support your GPU or whatever. Personally I never had any such problem when I switched to Linux Mint a few years ago, because my GPU is almost a decade old at this point. Someday I'll build an entirely new PC... either when GPU prices are less fricked or when my current one stops working, whichever comes first (probably the latter).
Linux bros...
Am I the only one that has KDE windows crash all day?
Like KDE is okay most of the time, kinda like some apps it comes with but holy frick it has graphical glitches and windows crashing regulary.
Not to mention that it actually doesn't look all that nice by default tbh.
The *krashes* meme is not just a meme.
Do yourself a favor and stay far away from KDE.
Doesn't crash for me
Can't say I've had that issue. Closest thing I could think of was SteamVR crashing, but that was killing Xorg
Some windows literally flip upside down after closing certain fullscreen games but an Alt+Tab quickly fixes it.
Works on my machine (with Wayland).
I get visual glitchyness and sometimes have to restart but don't usually crash
Abondon KDE and join your fellow XFCE Chads
Distro? Hardware? Nothing is perfect but something else could be causing it.
i7 9700k and GTX 1080 on desktop.
Thinkpad t530 and t430 both have it too.
OS is Kubuntu LTS 20.4
I've never had a crash caused by KDE but only extremely minor visual bugs that go away after a couple of seconds
probably the easeist distro for a windows user to get accustomed to
For linux native games it's good, if a bit bloated. For Wine games it will motivate you to install windows 11.
>Wine games
lol. There's a 99% chance that OP is just going to install Steam, and Mint is perfectly fine for that. You don't need SteamOS to run Proton.
Especially if you're running it with its own runtime
Oh yeah, except steam requires 32 bit opengl package, and good luck installing that lmao.
I don't know what you're doing wrong but I installed Steam on Linux Mint using the package manager and it just worked.
>except steam requires 32 bit opengl package, and good luck installing that lmao
I did three seconds of research after posting
and it looks like this is some kind of Nvidia thing. So you have my condolences, but also, what can I say? Works On My Machine™ LOL
>mesa
>nvidea
why are you shilling linux if you're not even using it?
Didn't look that closely at the screenshot, but if it's not Nvidia, then I'm back to not knowing what you did wrong. Because, as stated, it just worked for me. I didn't have to hunt for packages or any other weird bullshit like that. The package manager installed the dependencies for me.
>libgl1-mesa-dri:i386
I'm on Mint 20.3, not 21.1 (because I've been too lazy to upgrade), but I just checked, and that package is listed as automatically installed on my system, with the reverse-dependency being Steam. So the package in question was installed automatically when I installed Steam with APT.
You didn't give any hint as to how you managed to frick this up, I'll have to guess: Did you try to install Steam using the ".deb" file provided on the Steam web site? I wouldn't be surprised if that didn't work, though I never tried it because there's no good reason to do that.
Indardasting, I had to enable 32bit support manually with dpkg --add-architecture
Maybe I did that at some point before installing Steam and forgot. But I'm pretty sure that installing Steam was basically the first thing I did after installing Mint, and I probably would have remembered if it had required any extra steps like that.
btw here's how it looks
>*asks about Linux Mint*
>GOOD MORNING SIR, HAVE YOU HEARD ABOUT WINDOWS 11? DID YOU KNOW WINDOWS GAMES RUN ON WINDOWS?!
Everyone knows Windows exists; nobody asked.
>Bloated
Has packages I don't like!
Linux is not okay for games in general, install win 11.
GTFO israeliteSHILL
I see you haven't tried it for yourself.
cope
>More popular means its better
Brown person logic, it comes by default and most people are literally not competent enough to install an OS anymore
Steam should show the exact version of Windows, LTSC will be at like 5% despite being the most tolerable version of current windows, a couple years back 32-bit windows was the most popular too
Windows is the console gaming of the 2020's, you aren't PC master race you're 10 years too late
sounds like freetard cope to me, or, let me guess, your cpu is too old and is unsupported by windows 11? that's too bad
There is literally no reason to use 11 over 10, it is objectively worse for VR titles than Windows 10. And VR titles are the only reason to use Windows in 2023
I just use Kubuntu 22.04, it's fine
Thats what I use
and it sucks for me.
>Is Linux Mint okay for games?
No, its anti-semitic
Nobara Project is supposed to be the gaming OS.
It's pretty okay, the biggest problem with it is that if you aren't familiar with Fedora the website is useless, all the info and documentation is on his homosexual discord
Isnt this made by like one dude?
Yes but that one dude is GloriousEggroll, he is responsible for the custom Proton-GE that plays nip games FMV's properly and also works for Redhat as an Engineer
> Project in the name
It's either shit or never getting off the ground.
Just install fedora and enable rpm fusion dude.
>Linux
>Gaming
LMAO
Works on my machine.
Bro that is windows
Cope harder
Why do you have 48GB of RAM and not some normal amount?
Not him, but why not?
It's a set of 32 and 16 lel, I had 64 before but another machine I have with only 2 slots needed more, so I swapped the ram. I rarely need all 64g on this machine anyway.
>reddit game running on top of reddit os
Mint has the problem of somehow having even slower package updating than Ubuntu. This means you're mostly fine, but if you want to get some recent things working you'll have to dig in on your own. Some newer tools for VR straight up don't worn on Mint because it's too far behind. It's nice though, it's what I started with before I took the plunge into other distros.
Hope you enjoy. Cinnamon is comfy.
@625075360
bro I literally posted a screenshot of me playing a game
yep
Mint is basically just ubuntu that doesn't phone home to canonical. I use it. Cinnamon is okay but I have to occasionally restart it because whatever scheduler it uses for windows gets fricked up sometimes and makes certain windows lag for no reason. You know it's happening with a game when you get bizarre stutters every ~1 second. But it has the added bonus of being run by someone who hates israel so it's extra based.
Rolling release tends to be your best option, you might encounter trouble with compatibility if not.
Yes. It's one of the "It just works" distros
I've been daily driving it for like 5 years and the only distro specific issue i had was related to ZeroTier (something like hamachi that works on linux for lan gaming). All i had to do is websearch "ZeroTier linux mint" and there was a guide how to fix it on first page.
The only real issue i have with it, is that cinnamon still doesn't support wayland
>Is Linux okay for games?
No. Stop being a fricking moron and just use Windows.
works on my machine
There's a reason no one uses Linux to game
Don't fall for the shitposters
Exactly, I was actually... considering using Linux myself, yeah, yeah, laugh it up. I know. I know.
>sigh
But then, I took a look at those numbers. Nah. Not for me.
homosexual-shit, am I right?
Zero idea what they mean but at least I'm still based.
96% of all players use windows to play videogames
>I must follow the others
Be your own fricking person you Black person
I don't care.
>
>*uses Ganker (22 million monthly users) instead of Reddit (430 million monthly users)*
>"Boy, everyone is stupid except me."
take a look at the catalog and reread your post
look at the argument you're defending and rethink your life
>discord troony runs in circles
every time
>person who can't stop thinking about 0.1% of the population posts schizophrenic nonsense
every time
this
also for the exact same reason, you should obviously get your covid vaccines
im trans btw
>1.38%
>no one
linux mint actually has kinda ugly defaults on all 3 flavors. vanilla kde or vanilla gnome look way more polished.
Ask someone who is playing RDR2 on Debian anything.
Go on, ask me
Axe me, if you're black, even. I'm open to all creeds.
i've been waiting 5 years to play deadly premonition on linux. it used to not launch but now it crashes after the intro cutscene.
You tried this guide?
https://www.gog.com/forum/general/the_judas_does_this_run_in_wine_thread_v1173/post203
Apparently it works for some people
install gentoo
you can probably add repos for newer software if the defaults dont have recent enough stuff for gayming
nerd
JUST USE WINDOWS GOY IT'S FAST AND RELIABLE
ACTUALLY MAC IS BETTER
if you're autistic enough for linux you're autistic enough to unfrick windows
LOL, no. Nobody can really do anything to unfrick Windows at this point other than Microsoft.
Oh there are definitely ways
There is nothing anyone can do about the shit Microsoft has added to the NT kernel. Closed source OS, binary-only kernel.
However fricked you think Windows is, let me assure you that its worse.
There is literally nothing anyone can do about it outside Microsoft.
Its not going to get better, it was time to move on from Windows years ago.
My favorite Linux distro for the past 10 years.
yeah, and i think mint doesnt work with the new amd cards yet but nvidia's fine
That's always been the case.
Nvidia cards -> Use a stable distro
Packages are behind, bad for open source drivers, but proprietary drivers are less likely to break. Only downside is everything else is also probably behind. But this is less of a problem in the era of Flatpak.
AMD cards -> Use a rolling release distro
Packages are up to date, open source drivers and other software becomes available as soon as they're in a stable release, but its harder for Nvidia to QA their proprietary drivers (if they even care about your distro).
>Nvidia cards -> Use a stable distro
>brand new AMD cards -> Use a rolling release distro
>older AMD cards -> Use whichever you want because you're not cucked out of either option
Fixed
Even for older cards it helps to have the latest Mesa when it becomes available because games can benefit from it.
absolute midwit take
Cope.
>but new packages good
Okay but you still CAN use a stable distro if your card is old enough to be supported by them. I never wrote or implied anything more than this. If you have something to say to your straw man then do it without replying to me.
How new are you talking? I'm on mint 21, 6650 XT worked out of the box.
7000 gpus, before that's fine
i only learned this recently since i'm new to linux and was looking to upgrade
How's Mint if I want to play old games from the 90s? You know the games that require some tinkering before they work on modern hardware?
Pretty good, but you'll need to install MIDI support manually.
>virtual desktop
heresy
>How's Mint if I want to play old games from the 90s?
DOSBox and ScummVM run natively on Linux and are included in Mint's repo. If the provided version of ScummVM is too old, you can install the Flatpak which should be newer. And of course you're probably better off installing DOSBox Staging than regular DOSBox.
>You know the games that require some tinkering before they work on modern hardware?
Not really. Most of my '90s games would just be played in DOSBox, ScummVM, or some source port if I were playing them on Windows, and so I do exactly the same shit on Linux.
Our year.
>linux
>gaming
>consoles
>steam deck
>phones
yes, gaming
>Verification not required.
deck
but most importantly, my PC
I'd say that a popular linux distro is good for games.
>more people using it means more people are playing games on it
>so issues would generally be reported and dealt with quicker than other distributions
freedom
>Linux
>games