They’re… Okay. I’ve tried to do xemu quite a few times, but there’s so much to be translated. I can get a max of 15fps using xemu on Linux.

Remember it’s not just PowerPC to x86 translation, then you also add on the windows to Linux translations. There’s a lot happening and the performance suffers

Edit sorry, Xbox one is x86, I was thinking of 360.

I’ve been trying to believe there’s something nefarious at work

back to the NVidia problem though. I tried to think of a way, looked at different distros, but NVidia is still a problem

Very good point, I’ve had that issue before but I forgot about it. I’ll have to make sure there’s space for those cables…

I always forget about PC part picker, thank you!

Maybe I’m vain, but I posted a post a couple days ago celebrating my success with Linux gaming. So many games are like here.

You know it’s not ready for VR yet. yeah I played VR for about a month 4 years ago and that was enough.

You can’t play games with anti cheat personally I don’t play many of those, but obviously if you do that will play into your decision

Anyway, people are always negative about everything, especially against things other people like

Standard proton for me, I was honestly shocked

Only issue I’ve had beyond installing drivers is steam big picture. Gamescope does not play nice with Nvidia, everything else is great

AMD is easier for sure, but not for this. I think you may have to tell proton to use a specific card when starting up, or display. I’d start by googling environment variables with vulkan or proton to tell it which card to use. I think there was something like DEVICE=1 or something like that that you put before your command

I think it depends, you’re right, but if anything goes wrong there’s a large cliff.

Happy path is exactly right, click “compatibility” and then run.

If anything goes wrong it’s incredibly hard to figure out why. protondb is pretty good, but a lot of times it’s like mystical “set SOMEENVVARIABLE=someweirdthing %command%” and you’re like "Uh… okay… sure…

I’ve been blown away at how much support and effort has been poured into Lutris! Helping people get started who don’t know much

I wouldn’t say they favor it, but they have a standard build/iso and one that has Nvidia drivers already set up and ready

Nvidia was a pain before when I did it myself, but I did get it to work. I switched to PopOS though, and it made nvidia so. much. easier! There’s just a separate download for it

Linux gaming may have a high bar to learn, but that bar is constantly getting lower! Exciting times!

I’m very aware of the tinkering involved, that’s why I’m not telling people to “just install linux”, but after futzing with Wine for 15 years now, I can finally say it’s in a state where most things are plug and play. Yes, there are outliers that you kindly called out, but I’m very happy with the progress.

I have not, although I might. The only HMD I used was a Windows Mixed Reality one, which they just torpedoed support on Windows anyway. I hear it works on Linux, so that might be a weekend project

I’m using Lutris, and Wine is my runner. On my game I could see this button here, for Wine.

Select the arrow and hit “winetricks”. Then in there it’s a bit convoluted, but

• Install an Application
• Cancel
• Install a Windows DLL or Component
• Select physx and go!

Oh yeah, the number one issues were with non-steam games, getting EA play to launch by itself. Learned a lot about Lutris and wine for that, DA:O and ME:L were both like that, but got both to work perfectly!

I have one last windows machine hooked up to my TV, using Steam Big Picture. I’m going to wait until Dragon Age Veilguard just to see a new game how quickly it becomes supported/how difficult it’ll be to set up, but if I can get it working pretty quickly, I think that’ll be off Windows

I’m curious about work vs home use too. I’m guessing if you take out computers where Microsoft is mandated, it’d be more of a stark difference

I switched from a 3000 series Nvidia to a 7000 series amd and couldn’t be happier.

And yeah, dead wrong on price. I paid half the price for my AMD compared to my old Nvidia