Do you game on Linux?

  • I don't play games on Linux
  • I play occasionally play on Linux
  • I only play games on Linux
  • Only Solitaire and alike
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A little survey. With Valve's Proton we have seen better performance on Linux than Windows. So do you play games on Linux?

I have played games since the early 80's and stil do. In the early 00 I played games on Linux like Ureal Tournament 2004 and I bought Cedega to play Windows games on Linux. It was not perfect, but I purely refused to use Windows since 1999.

My games at the moment on my PC:

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I mainly play 2 games on Zorin Star Trek Fleet Command and Honkai Star Rail

I do have steam installed as well

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Have you seen my livewallpaper?

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yes i did i belive i made a comment on it.... :wink:

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I don't play Games on Linux. But to be fair: I didn't played Games on Windows, too. I play on Console (PS5). There, I don't have to care about Hardware and Stuff. This is fix and I install a Game and can play. Also I don't like Online Games. I prefer to play offline.

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Same here. I prefer offline games too. If I want some punk kids to yell at me I'll visit my nephews. :sweat_smile:

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Hahaha, yes some kind of that. But also I'm independent and can play when I want. And offline, it isn't a Problem when a Server is down because that doesn't matter.

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Are you familiar with the Heros of Might & Magic series? There has been a new relese to the series which is mindblowing. It's really good and the game is cheap.

I've been disappointed, partly because I could not get an unofficial game to run in Steam, BlackLight Retribution. It uses the original Windows game. It launches then as gameplay is about to start it crashes. Same on Windows 10 so I have given up. The other issue is it contains anti-cheat engine so GNU/Linux users are left out in the cold. Even reviewers of Bazzite have acknowledged that anti-cheat looks for games running on that other OS.

The only games I currently play on PCLOS Debian is Solitaire and Battle for Wesnoth 1.18.

I heard from the Games but never played one of them. It didn't sound like it would be something for me. I'm very selecting with choosing Games to play.

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There's a demo you can try, to see if it's someting for you.

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Amigo lo hiciste tu todo eso , la verdad te tengo cierta Invidia apenas empezando yo con zorin y tu ya eres muy muy Alto en la cima del everest :smiley: sigue asi amigo se ve bonito ese video .

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Yes, I play games on Linux. I ditched Microslop, when Win10 was the latest new garbage. I've been a gamer since Super Mario Bros, and the OG Doom.

Modern day gaming, there's been a lot of garbage games released, many in the AAA field as a matter of fact. This is why its hard to find good games these days.

I typically have to be patient, wait for what releases, look what people are saying about them, then try them out if interested. I've been let down many times.

Its more rare these days, for a game to impress me. Too many games are ruined by pushing real life narratives, into games nobody asked for. Its the same reason why that Starfleet Academy show failed and got canceled. The writing was the worst we ever seen, in a ST show!

A lot of games also fail, because they are made for shareholders, not the people who actually play them, and thus are unfinished garbage. On occasion though, good games show up, that surprise us.

Capcom, known for the famous Mega Man games in the 90's, has come out with a smash hit game, that "normal" people love, its a 3rd person shooter / puzzle solver game called, Pragmata. Only the "sico's" on social media don't like it, and write disgusting post remarks about it.

Next month I want to play Pragmata, I've seen video's of it on YouTube, and it looks like a great game to me. Gaming on Linux can be hit or miss, depending on how well Proton works for the games. As you know, most games, especially those that are AAA, are written for Windows, so its not always easy to translate those games, to run on Linux.

The biggest offenders, are online multiplayer games, that come with anti-cheat. Anti-cheat games will never run on Linux, because anti-cheat refuses to support Linux. (Shocker lol) Many single player games do run on Linux though through Proton's compatibility layer.

But yes, gaming on Linux will always be trial and error. Not all Linux distributions, offer gaming options the same way, some distro's work better with gaming. I also learned, the older the computer, the worse the support it.

Pop OS on an old 2012 Acer midrange notebook computer, gaming went to absolute garbage, only game the computer launches now, is Half Life 2. I however, am on a modern computer, on Zorin OS 16.3, and almost every game in my library launches.


Oh yeah. There have been two activities that tried to keep Windows around over the past decade: gaming and music production. Both are becoming increasingly viable on a Linux daily driver and sometime in the past couple years I've committed to staving off Windows entirely.

The games that I can't get running over Proton are trivially few and far between, and I just refuse to play them if they won't run on Linux.