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  1. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    how many times u gon make these cringe ass threads bruh -_-'

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      go noot yourself

  2. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    It's not that bad

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      kek, what game is that

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        "Yes."

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        all of them

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >Cherry picked review from 8 months ago
      lel

  3. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    It is a pain in the ass to find Linux compatible pirated games, but they do exist.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      cant you just run them in Lutris?

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        You probably can, but I have never heard of it.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        You can and that's how I've been playing Crusader Kings III for quite a while. Just downloaded Fitgirl repack and Lutris handled everything

  4. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >is it really that bad?
    works on my machine

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      165 fps on Monster Hunter with a 3090 is good or bad?

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        It's not good - it's functionally a Nintendo Switch game.

        That said, if the internal res is 10x the output resolution, one would expect the framerate to be not so great.

        Maybe frame limiting also - those are solid frametimes, which are going to be far more desirable for an action game than simply higher, but wildly variable framerates - neverminding grossly exceeding display refresh rates.

        I'll put it another way. 165fps is fantastic for any game.

        Just try again with a more demanding game (like MH World).

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        the framerate can be limited to 165, which is the refresh rate of my primary monitor
        this is showing a cutscene, usually locked to 30, running at full speed with mods working

  5. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    NO MARVIN
    NO MITTENS
    NO SERVICE

  6. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    No. I've only one game with a worse experience then on Windows (not all cutscenes are playing).
    I don't play too many multiplayer games tho.

  7. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Yeah.
    Bad for Microsoft I mean.

  8. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    N

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      I

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        I

  9. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    it's good

  10. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    my favorite games except ss13 run just fine.

  11. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Works find if you don't use nvidia or play anything with kernal raping anticheat.

  12. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Linux would be great if it was plug and play like Windows, and this is coming from someone who fricking hates Windows and wishes he could switch to Linux.
    Fricking everything needs tinkering, some sort of fix or something between.
    https://github.com/FlaareZero/Kingdom_Hearts_Collection_Linux/blob/main/how_to.md
    Literally all this shit just to play Kingdom Hearts when I could just double click an EXE on Windows.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >Linux would be great if it was plug and play
      If you had set everything correctly in your Linux installation and in lutris, games would work exactly the same as they would on wangblows.
      They sometimes even run faster.
      I can run any game from lutris or on steam with just one (1) click.
      >Fricking everything needs tinkering, some sort of fix or something between.
      If putting commands into launch options is too hard for you then, just stick with windows.

      But what did I expect from an anime poster?
      Of course you don't know anything.
      Just have a nice day you fricking troony.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Why are Linux users so damn autistic?

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          Please don't project yourself onto me.
          You are a Black person, you a are the blackest gorilla Black person I have ever seen.
          You can't even spend 5 minutes to set up your OS just to work with vidya games.
          The only thing you can do is complain about everything on a zoomer imageboard.
          Frick you.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          >Basic competency is autism
          Cope, brainlet

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        What are some examples of games that run faster? With benchmarks please.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Holy Seethe
        Show me what games run better on Linux with benchmarks please
        Not everyone wants to spend more time troubleshooting than playing troon

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          What are some examples of games that run faster? With benchmarks please.

          Good morning sirs.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            >no retort
            post hand since we're just shitposting now

            • 2 years ago
              Anonymous

              SIR DO NOT REDEEM THE LINUX

            • 2 years ago
              Anonymous

              I thought both of you were shitposting.
              It's obvious that games will run faster on linux, since wangblows is bloated with shit that takes up cpu and ram.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                If it is so obvious, pulling up benchmarks shouldn't be a problem right?

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                >I NEED PROOF FOR SOMETHING THAT WAS PROVEN ALREADY MULTIPLE TIMES

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                >when you've already googled the answer to your own question but you really want to fight about nothing because you didn't like someone's "tone"
                Is this autism?

                So much seething, so little proof

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                You want your proof, homosexual?
                >go to https://www.google.com/
                >search for "linux vs windows benchmark in video games"
                It's so easy.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                >already googled the proof
                >found out there were in fact a number of games that run better in linux
                >embarrassed about being wrong so it's time to try to play it all off as "trolling"
                like pottery, every single time

                >Literally provides no proof
                >Eternally seethes
                >"Go google it yourself"
                Is this the average freetard mindset?
                First video I found: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7VxZmDKsnk
                Cyberpunk 2077 runs better on Windows.
                Hmm.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous
              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                >already found the proof
                >can't let it go
                >full shitposting mode
                lol

                >Doesn't provide proof
                >Seethes when someone shows up with proof

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                >literally cherry picked a video
                >Eternally seethes
                Is this the average windows pajeet mindset?
                First video I found: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9Op7Xa5eKs
                Hmm.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                See, that's better.
                Unlike this frick who doesn't bring his own videos to the argument.

                >doesn't want to lose an argument that wasn't happened in the first place
                >wants everyone else to win the argument for him, too
                jej

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                this "argument" is only happening because you said something stupid, twice, and THEN googled it and found out you were moronic
                next time just google it first before posting
                it's cool you found some moron that's willing to fight with you about it tho

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                >doesn't want to lose an argument that wasn't happened in the first place
                >wants everyone else to win the argument for him, too
                jej

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                >already found the proof
                >can't let it go
                >full shitposting mode
                lol

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                >already googled the proof
                >found out there were in fact a number of games that run better in linux
                >embarrassed about being wrong so it's time to try to play it all off as "trolling"
                like pottery, every single time

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                >when you've already googled the answer to your own question but you really want to fight about nothing because you didn't like someone's "tone"
                Is this autism?

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                It's something I would be interested in as well. I've looked into the topic myself in the past, but at most, you'd generally only find games that would reach parity with DX12, not exceed it (regardless of DXVK or Native Vulkan). The problem is that also, a lot of these benchmarks are across different hardware and are often out of date by a few years, so who knows how the former can impact results and improvements over time could change the latter. A great example is something like CS:GO, which has been recorded as being faster than Windows, but things have changed over the years with how the game's rendered but it also now has experimental Vulkan on Linux so maybe it's EVEN BETTER, but the benchmarks made within the last year are clearly not as comprehensive or on nearly as appropriate hardware as the one I'm thinking of from a 3-4 years ago.

                Why is it such a fukken mess to get a clear cut set of data on this when otherwise the pride of Linux is community feedback n' shit. Anything regarding whether video games works on Linux is a scattered set of inconsistent and improperly gathered data that only servers to obfuscate answers even further

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            I'm

            What are some examples of games that run faster? With benchmarks please.

            and I genuinely wanted to know so I could go download them on my linux partition and remove them from my windows one.

            • 2 years ago
              Anonymous

              Dualboot Linux on your pc and try it out yourself, you fat moron.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                I just said I'm already doing that you fricking Black person, I just wanted suggestions.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                ELDEN RING, Halo: The Master Chief Collection etc.

                Probably any modern game that isn't multiplayer only will work wonderfully.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                Thank you for finally not being obtuse about this, unfortunately I already knew about those ones and if you have any other suggestions I'd like those too.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          Elden ring runs better on Linux than windows. Literally fixes a stutter issue that plagued the launch.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      It's almost like game developers supporting a platform is important. A lot of that stuff, like mf-install, is also about working around legal issues because MS would throw a shitfit if you tried to bundle their media foundation libraries with a distro, or if Steam tried supplying them.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        >devs don't support linux because of low playerbase
        >players don't use linux because of lack of support
        DAMN THIS CIRUCLAR LOGIC

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          Unfortunately that circle can only be broken by money. A big company pouring lots and lots of money into the platform as a long-term investment, which is what Valve is doing right now.
          If you tried gaming on Linux 10 years ago, the current state feels amazing in comparison, but that's because they've already spent millions on improving it. And yet there's a long way to go still.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          A lot of it is also because of the image of what is publicly acceptable or a widespread practice. People will adjust their efforts based on the perceived "bare minimum" and at the moment that bare minimum is probably whatever phone gets marketed to people the most.
          Linux requires some more (or in some cases vastly more) computer literacy than other applications and we have probably already moved past peak computer literacy.

          It would likely be better for society and curb the decline in computer literacy if devices and computers moved closer towards Linux in terms of "user friendliness" and not the other way around since a qualitatively worse experience that is more difficult to tweak (but which may also not need to be tweaked) is the outcome of adjusting ever downward for the computer illiterate.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      blame epic

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Frick timmy, all hail lord gaben

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >>all this shit
      It's like 3 installs at best, all of it well-documented.

  13. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    It's bare minimum for anyone interested, but also much better than 5 years ago

    It's **Free as in Beer™**, give it a shot

  14. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >Install Linux
    >Drag and drop from folder to folder doesn't work
    >Check online why
    >Only thread about it is from a year ago with no solution
    >Uninstall Linux

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >lies on the internet

  15. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    What is the best Linux OS for vidya?

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Arch. If you dont wanna spend time with installing arch like me EndevaourOS

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        He doesn't even know what a distro is and you tell him to use arch/arch based rolling release. It doesn't matter that rolling release is objectively better for gaming he won't be able to use it.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          arch isn't hard
          if you slap a gui in front of the package manager its even easier but typing words is really easy, and faster than searching in a gui anyhow

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            People who're scared of the terminal but still want to use Linux don't make sense to me.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Ubuntu or Debian. Do not use Arch, do not use snowflake distros, do not use fork-of-fork.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        >Just use distros that don't get fast updates which is crucial for gaming bro
        You're moronic

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        >unironically recommending debian for gaming, one of the few computing area's that practically require a rolling release distro
        you're the dumbest gorilla Black person i've ever met

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          >Just use distros that don't get fast updates which is crucial for gaming bro
          You're moronic

          Fast updates are a meme. Stability is king.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rlg4K16ujFw

            >people that can tinker and fix problems that come up by themselves are wrong because I am a moron who can't

            • 2 years ago
              Anonymous

              Why don't you tinker a working gaming linux distro then?

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                Literally everything i want to play works so I already have moron.
                It's not my problem that you are a brain dead toddler that has to be spoon fed everything in life.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                >u r stoopid and i am le smart linuxhacker
                And this elitist gate keeping is exactly the reason Linux will never take off.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                An average person like you is too stupid to use desktop linux that's why projects like android were made to make linux usable for toddlers like you. Morons like you will never use linux as its intended because you are not the target audience for it.
                It was and always will be a niche OS and that's a good thing but you don't have the IQ nor personality traits to understand it.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                seethe XD

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                NTA but you ARE stupid if you think clicking like 3 buttons to enable proton to play a game makes you a "le smart linux hacker"

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            you are obscenely fricking moronic shut the frick up you dont know what you're talking about

            • 2 years ago
              Anonymous

              >Encounter problem in Arch
              >Get pushed around in a goosechase because no self-fix stays usable for more than a week
              >Encounter problem in Ubuntu
              >Solution on the front page, works for years

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                >just lie on the internet to make your point

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        >Do not use Arch
        Yeah, don't use the distro that SteamOS is literally derived from. That would be stupid. Your software might actually run, and then what would you have to b***h about in these bait threads?

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          Guess which distro the first release of SteamOS was derived from. Hint: It wasn't Ubuntu.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            >Guess which distro the first release of SteamOS was derived from.
            I don't have to guess. I used it. But it's completely irrelevant these days, as SteamOS is currently built from Arch.

            • 2 years ago
              Anonymous

              >I used it
              Then you are remarkably dumb for installing a distro whose only selling point was booting into Steam Big Picture. You're right that it's irrelevant, though. The base of SteamOS still has no bearing whatsoever on the compatibility of commercial games. The only component that matters is Proton, which is provided by the Steam client regardless of what distro you're using.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                >You're right that it's irrelevant, though.
                I accept your concession. Better luck next thread.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      they're all the same stop asking this question, the only underlying difference is how much you care about being a l33t autist without a preinstalled desktop environment or basic user software, or if you dont give a frick and you just want most of the shit you will actually use be pre-installed. if you're the latter then get mint or ubuntu. if you are an autist get arch

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Arch. Do not use Ubuntu or Debian, do not use snowflake distros, do not use fork-of-fork.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Manjaro or popos

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Pop!_OS so far has been the most braindead option - just install and go for 90% of shit. If you have an AMD GPU you don't even need to frick with drivers.
      But literally any linux distro can run things, it's just a matter of what's pre=installed.

  16. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    So mint is okay or nah?

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      It is if you want windows like experience but you need to install zen-kernel if you wanna get full performance out of your pc

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        >just install this meme kernel bro

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous
          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous
            • 2 years ago
              Anonymous

              So now you're saying Linux is bad? What happened to kernel being a meme?

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          >removing pointless server shit you will never use from your desktop kernel is a meme

  17. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >Medium size company hires me as chief of IT
    >Previous guy was a mess, almost half of the equipment wasn't working properly
    >Fix it all
    >Coworkers complain about how their computers are hard to use and very incompatible with anything
    >They all have shitbuntu
    >Install Windows 10 on all 60 work computers
    >Everyone praises me and work actually gets done
    >Company assets rise by 300%
    Don't use meme OS kids

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Congratulations anon, you've created a security nightmare for that medium size company

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      And then everyone clapped.
      And the name of the company? That's right. Albert Einstein.

  18. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    You could have consulted any of the numerous reviews of the Steam Deck if you wanted to answer this question instead of having yet another Linux bait thread.

  19. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    linux is a mental illness

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      So is your color of your skin, shitskin.

  20. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    I've gamed exclusively on Linux since 2015.

  21. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >still no retort

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      That is not true, every thread has as a moron in them: you, the OP.

  22. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >Want to emulate Ocarina of time
    >install mupen64plus runner from lutris
    >select the rom
    >hit play
    >nothing happens
    What do i do?

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      play the native ports?

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Why not just use the native mupen64plus binary? Why even try to use the Windows version of it?
      A vast majority of modern emulators started of on Linux.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Illiterate moron

  23. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >pretending not to know how to use google
    >pretending not to know what protondb is
    >samegayging
    kek

  24. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Modern PCgays are so fricking dumb it's unreal. Using linux isn't hard at all.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >linux troons are the dumb frogposters shitting up the site
      you can't make this shit up

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Trannies hate frogs

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Trannies hate frogs

      WHAT DOES THE REDDITFROG HAVE TO DO WITH THAT?

      WHAT DOES THE REDDITFROG HAVE TO DO WITH THAT?

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        You brought it up Pajeet, nobody was talking about it until you mentioned it

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        These are the "people" shitposting at you on Ganker.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          [...]
          WHAT DOES THE REDDITFROG HAVE TO DO WITH THAT?

          WHAT DOES THE REDDITFROG HAVE TO DO WITH THAT?

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          On Ganker /bant/ /LULZ/ and /s4s/ yeah. Here it's morbidly obese Atlus fanboys.

  25. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    I've been linux only for 3 years now
    My worse experience was Nioh, were the only thing that doesn't work is the prerendered cutscenes
    Every other game I've wanted to play has been a smooth experience

  26. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    No? Proton exists, along with it's proton-ge-custom branch along with Lutris and Bottles. Gaming on Linux has literally never been better and it keeps getting better. Especially if you're using an Arch or Arch-derived distro.

  27. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >newbies don't know about pingu
    feels bad man

  28. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >> Linux Gaming
    >is it really that bad?
    Not for me.
    Probably for you though.
    Because Ganker is full of normies and therefore you probably are one. Switching to Linux for better performance is a meme unless you only care about one or two very specific games, because for every game that runs with +5 FPS out-of-the-box due to lack of Windows bloat or some advantage of Vulkan over DirectX, there will be several games that don't work out-of-the-box (i.e. require tweaking) or perform a bit worse because Proton isn't perfect or because a Linux port was half-assed by some developer who wanted to appear based without putting in the work. It very well may be the case that any required tweaks for your favorite games are well documented and easy to apply, and that games with degraded performance still run well enough to meet your monitor's refresh rate anyway so you might not care, and in general you might have a fine experience. But ultimately you need to do your own cost-benefit analysis of whether your distaste for Windows or desire to use a free OS outweighs whatever difficulty you might encounter. How much difficulty you have will depend on what you actually want to play, but if you consider all games, then gaming is easier on Windows, and trying to make Linux look appealing to people who don't already hate Windows is a waste of time. I'd love more support for Linux and that will require more users, but despite that, if you're happy with Windows, please fricking stay there. Don't be memed into thinking someone who likes Windows should try Linux just for better performance. You'll just become another "waaah I tried Linux and it sucked because I couldn't figure out how to unzip files" dipshit, and then we'll have to tell you to frick off, and you'll cry about gatekeeping despite not actually wanting to use Linux anymore. We're all tired of it.

  29. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    I use arch btw

  30. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Depends entirely on how much soulless cash grab FPS shit you play.

  31. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    It's not bad at all.
    The few holdovers are some games with EAC or anti-cheat(Destiny 2, Valorant, Leagueof Legends are all a PITA to get running), but pretty much everything else works OOTB or with a minor tweak. THe most common thing I get is occasional audio crackle which is fixed by literally just posting PULSE_LATENCY_MSEC=90 %command% into the launch paramters of the game 99.99% of the time.

  32. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    You can play 100% of games while using linux for most of your uses, dual boot or virtualization is an option I rarely see people mention in these threads.

  33. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    I'm trying it out for a month on another ssd. So far the only issues I have aren't related to gaming. I can't put it to sleep/suspend since it just instantly wakes, and discord starts flashing and gets sluggish unless I use the website instead of the flatpak

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >discord starts flashing and gets sluggish unless I use the website instead of the flatpak
      turn off hardware acceleration in browser, it was causing slowdown in mine too.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        I'll give that a try thanks

        Which distro are you on?

        Fedora 36 since last time I used it lots of things just worked compared to other distros

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Which distro are you on?

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      stop using that spyware crap

  34. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >zoomers took over Pingu and turned him into a shitty horror meme
    Frick this gay Earth. There's nothing pure or sacred anymore.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      I'm not even going to ask

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous
  35. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    any good linux channels? I don't mind in-depth but something between casual and advance is preferred.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      eflinux was a favorite of my for a while back when I was starting. His videos helped me learn how to install Arch Linux from scratch.
      There's also channels like TechHut, LearnLinuxTV and ChrisTitusTech.

  36. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    When I was stuck with only a Linux pc I exclusively played turn BASED games because there wasn't anything else other than shitty quake clones that most people sucked at

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >most people sucked at
      including yourself?

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        I was the cream of the crap at Nexuiz and Black personed most of the fellow baddies I fought
        t. saw an old youtube video a few years ago that had me in it and cringed

  37. 2 years ago
    Anonymous
  38. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    It's only bad if you get most of your games from dlsite, games that require rpgmaker assets to work generate tons of problems and you can't be sure if the problem is on your end or the game is just crap.

  39. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    What's up with the hate with Linux so much on this board?? It's works well on my machine.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Contrarianism.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        being contrarian would be using linux wouldn't it

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Pajeetism

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      stockholm syndrome

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous
    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      I can only think of it as troll hate. Because I can't imagine someone is legitimately that much of a fan of Windows or MacOS.

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