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3 reasons Pop!_OS might be the best Linux distro for gamers (www.xda-developers.com)
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[–] WeebLife@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Isn't gamescope more used with handhelds?

[–] Ulrich@feddit.org 1 points 3 months ago

Uhhhh I mean only because Valve put it on Steam Deck and then sold millions of them. I use it on my desktop.

[–] imecth@fedia.io 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Gamescope is great to use even on desktops, it runs the games in its own little shell which is particularly good for compatibility with old games where you can change stuff like resolution, fullscreen, keyboard layout... without impacting your distro.

[–] WeebLife@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Oh I see. That is pretty cool. Can you launch that with steam in the desktop version?

[–] Ulrich@feddit.org 1 points 3 months ago

Desktop version of what?

[–] imecth@fedia.io 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

You can use gamescope with anything, it's a micro compositor. You can add it to the launch parameters in steam, lutris has an option to start games with gamescope, or you can simply open the game with gamescope and wine from the terminal.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Gamescope

[–] WeebLife@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

Thanks for the info.