Does anyone here game in Linux at all? If so, what games do you run, native or emulated (Wine/Crossover), and where do you foresee the future of gaming on Linux?
Lately, I've been using Wine to play a handful of games. Right now I'm getting Skyrim onto this machine through Crossover. I think the future of gaming on Linux is going to start looking good, with Gabe Newell talking about Linux being the future of gaming and the soon to be unveiled "Steam Box", which has been rumored to run some variant of Linux (Probably Ubuntu)
I mostly play DOSBox stuff. Other notable stuff, Doom, Quake (2) and Hexen II have some native ports, and I do some stuff via WINE such as the Disciples series and I forget what else. Some (S)NES/Genesis emulation too.
Most native games for Linux are kind of shit in my experience though, aside from Wesnoth and Dungeon Crawl.
Pro tip: ditch GNOME in favor or a light window manager like IceWM, as it's a bloated shitpig-express. Doing this switch can make a big performance difference for some stuff (DOSBox in particular.)
I'm annoyed by how few games are packaged in Debian. The StepMania, Aleph One, and Vega Strike packages have all been abandoned. Every so often there's a Request For Package and maybe someone shows interest, but it never goes anywhere. Compiling a lot of these games can be a pain.
Still, a lot of independent games are released for Linux now, and they're generally distributed as archives you can just extract and run.
I game only on Linux now. Mostly just playing Steam games, since that's what I played on windows anyway.
Also I play Quake Live sometimes.
I play Tuxcart Racer, does that count?
Valve's Linux based OS looks really promising. Back when I ran kubuntu, all I played were dungeon crawlers like DCSS and emulated consoles.
>>3
This probably has to do with Debian being one of the more pedantic "Free Software" distros out there. Try Mint.
I love roguelikes, Cataclysm DDA: is really good and DCSS is my favorite
Outside of roguelikes, I play emulated games and a remake of Command and Conquer: Red Alert called OpenRA which I have been having a blast with
I can't get my games to work most of the time. I need to find a solution to this
Getting Quake 3 to run on Linux was a pain in the ass, since the best version doesn't have an executable on any repository and has to be manually installed and linked to the appropriate libraries, but it was worth it. Quake/QW was much easier to get running. Those are about the only games I've played much recently, besides roguelikes.
I'm on BSD (close enough?) and mainly just play simple text games, roguelikes, IF, and emulate really old hardware of 8 and 16 bit era. I used to have some 90's 3D FPS stuff, but I deleted all that so I could focus entirely on older games. I also want to get some real old 80's hardware at some point, as those are the machines I grew up with.
Gaming on GNU is horrible.
>GNU is horrible.
FTFY
>>16
gj
Gaming on linux sure has come along way.
Once upon a time it used to be a pain in the ass to get everything sorted out.
Now I just had to install manjaro, get steam, and bam! Games.
Proton works pretty well, i tested it out with jet set radio for a bit and then played a bit of coop hat in time.
playing games on gnu/linux is ass.
native binaries almost never exist and when they do its inferior to the windows version.
you load up the game with wine/proton whatever the fuck and it has a fifty percent chance of working.
if it even loads in wine the game will crash minutes later or be bugged.
if you dont have the latest graphics card that was just made yesterday, everything will run like shit no matter what.
you could take a graphics card from a dumpster and probably run some new game at 1080p with windows, but for linux you better have the latest card or suffer.
valve is probably the only company actually supporting this shitty os and doing a lot of work to make shit work.
they realized linux native sucks so now they use their modified wine called proton.
so at least gaming is do-able on linux but it still sucks ass in general when compared to windows, hell even macos does better.
playing games every day on linux in 2022 with literally no issues. the only games that don't run are games with kernel-level anticheat, otherwise it's smooth sailing with little to no tinking involved. if you cannot use linux in 2022 you are likely retarded.
if you cannot eat your shit in 2022 you are likely retarded
list games you play and where you buy/get them. Using linux in around 2010 caused me to start playing all videogames on youtube, still can't get over that habit.
looking back at this thread makes me nostalgic and happy in a weird kind of a way.
The 'eck changed everything.
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worthless zoomer on worthless website
Linux is useless for gaming you need openbsd
>Does anyone here game in Linux at all?
I do use my Linux machine from time to time to play games.
>If so, what games do you run, native or emulated (Wine/Crossover)
Mostly visual novels. Some of them I have bought from Steam and run them with Proton-GE, which is an improved version of Proton, that fixes a lot of stuff from upstream Proton. Planetarian, Rewrite, Clannad and Muv-Luv run perfectly fine with just that. Higuarashi and Narcissu 1&2 work also and do so natively. Other VNs such as Air, Tsukihime and Steins;Gate work with Wine. Renpy visual novels work flawlessly, but I haven't played them much. There is also on the Pirate Bay and Nyaa.si some guy, who created a series of torrents containing Flatpak installation files, which make installing those packaged VNs very easy. It's called "Flatpak-Novels".
>where do you foresee the future of gaming on Linux?
I think as time goes on, it will become more and more feasible and probably will be superior to Windows one day. I think in the foreseeable future Wine will be to Windows, what Dosbox is to MS-DOS - in the sense, that it will become a more practical and generally speaking better experience than on the original system, except for a few special use cases or nostalgia. Furthermore, I think Linux is already a very usable OS for gaming, but I think this will only improve over time.
>>2
XFCE4 is also a good choice. It's lightweight and can be configured very much to one's liking. It seems to adapt much better with games, full screen mode and other typical problems, in particular with Wine, unlike Gnome and Gnome-based window managers, but also unlike most bare-bones window managers. Keybinds like Alt-Tab also work well. It's only too bad, there is no singular config file, but a whole folder of configs, that are supposed to be edited with the GUI settings manager, instead of just one normal config file, that can be edited with a text editor.
So many retards wholeheartedly embracing Steam on Linux like it's a good thing, what a time to be alive.
>>27
Valve is the reason that AMD drivers don't suck dick anymore.
test
>"Linux is useless for gaming"
>recommends fucking OpenBSD
>>1 I get all my games from either Steam or itch. I always try to get a native Linux version, but the Windows games I play tend to work fine on wine or proton in 2024. Then again, I mostly play older games like Half-Life or Sonic Adventure, or indie pixelart games like A Space For The Unbound, Celeste or that schizophrenic milk girl VN. I'm not sure if fancy newer games work all that well.
>takes a blatantly obvious troll post a little too seriously