Gaming

6141 readers

11 users here now

!gaming is a community for gaming noobs through gaming aficionados. Unlike !games, we don’t take ourselves quite as serious. Shitposts and memes are welcome.

Our Rules:

1. Keep it civil.

Attack the argument, not the person. No racism/sexism/bigotry. Good faith argumentation only.

2. No sexism, racism, homophobia, transphobia or any other flavor of bigotry.

I should not need to explain this one.

3. No bots, spam or self-promotion.

Only approved bots, which follow the guidelines for bots set by the instance, are allowed.

4. Try not to repost anything posted within the past month.

Beyond that, go for it. Not everyone is on every site all the time.

Logo uses joystick by liftarn

founded 2 years ago

MODERATORS

JonsJava@lemmy.world

onlinepersona@programming.dev

What's the state of Linux gaming with Proton? (lemmy.zip)

submitted 2 weeks ago by psx_crab@lemmy.zip to c/gaming@lemmy.world

26 comments fedilink hide all child comments

As everyone know, Windows 10 support is ending very soon, and here i am having a very old hardware that couldn't support win11. So my choice now is either:

1)keep using it and risk security breach

2)upgrade hardware to something that support TPM 2.0 and upgrade to win11(costly)

3)switch to Linux and game using Proton

Since i mostly use this machine to watch movies, youtube, and gaming, and most of my game is on Steam anyway(some free games from Epic, and two from Window store), i'm wondering if it's better to just switch to linux from now on and wanted to know what's the compatibility of the game of late. Note that eventually i will have to upgrade my machine anyway, it barely play any new game released this few years.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] psx_crab@lemmy.zip 3 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I heard Mint is closest to the window experience, not sure about steam ready though, i didn't know that is a thing i need to watch out for. i think i might try that first

[–] Katana314@lemmy.world 1 points 10 hours ago

I think Mint is the cleanest recommendation when you don’t want to be held liable for issues; but for gaming specifically, I ended up liking CachyOS a bit more.

It’s very bleeding-edge, which if you know tech is often a good and bad thing. But games work well. It is not quite so clean with things like installing popular apps - I’m using a package manager called “bauh”, which is relatively new, unrefined, but works. I still end up installing a few things from terminal, which I know shouldn’t be needed for casual users.

Last I tried Mint was early in the year and I think I installed from an old version. It could be what few gaming issues I saw are gone.

[–] andrewta@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

I use mint with steam. No real issues at this point.

If you can. Get an external solid state drive and install Linus there to figure out any issues then if you screw up, you still have windows 10 as back up until you figure out all the issues. Then when you are ready wipe windows and install Linux that way