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What are your experiences using Linux for gaming? (discuss.tchncs.de)

submitted 1 week ago by _Lory98_@discuss.tchncs.de to c/gaming@beehaw.org

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I'm planning on switching to Linux on my main PC as I don't want to move to Windows 11 and was curious about other people's experiences doing so.

I have a Steam Deck and everything there works out of the box, but I imagine that's a more curated platform compared to standard distros.

What are your experiences, good or bad?

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[–] who@feddit.org 3 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

I've been gaming exclusively on desktop Linux for more than a decade.

All my games work, either natively or (more often) using some variant of Wine. Most Steam games work with very little tweaking or none at all.

I occasionally have to apply workarounds for broken Battle.net updates (I run Blizzard games without Steam) but this doesn't happen very often and usually only takes a couple days for the community to figure out a workaround. The last few updates haven't broken anything new.

Games with certain anti-cheat systems, especially kernel-mode ones, are known not to work. I don't care, because I wouldn't allow such invasive and dangerous things to run on my hardware anyway.

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