I don't play strategy games, I play FPS, 3rd person, or sim games. These days however, I play mostly FPS. I play a variety of gameplay genre's, but I stay away from modern combat games like Battlefield and Call Of Duty, and I strongly stay away from multiplayer, which is not fun for me at all. I typically play games that are like Halo, F.E.A.R, Doom The Dark Ages. My first entry into horror games, was the original classic Doom, I just find it more entertaining to vanquish monsters, then to vanquish what looks like real people.
I play simple games on occasion, like Plants vs Zombies, or Bejewled, but I'm not really a simple games minded person, I don't get into Solitaire, Sedouku, or any of that stuff, I don't even play the ever popular Candy Crush.
There are a couple of native Linux games I've played, one of them being SuperTuxKart. That was literally the last sim game I've played, even though a bit more arcade then sim, I enjoyed it, most of the time. I loved Mario Kart from the 90's vintage days, which is also a kart racing game, that has many iterations of the game, but the last Nintendo console I played on, was the Nintendo 64, I got out of Nintendo after that. I don't think they know what they are doing anymore, especially with their Switch.
I think there are 1 or 2 native FPS games, but their multiplayer focused, which means like most that are, their garbage. I prefer single player story driven games, like Halo, F.E.A.R, not garbage kids play today called Fortnite. The only reason why kids play games like that, is because they can play them with their friends. Kids are not interested in story driven games, because their immature with 0 life experience.
I am primarily a mouse and keyboard/keypad user for gaming. I find this to usually be the best for first person games, whether it be a shooter, or a horror game. However, when it comes to 3rd person games, ever since my stroke that took out my left side, I find using a controller to be better, and I use an AOC gaming controller. Controllers are better for racing sims, kart's as well, due to the analog thumbsticks, that mimic more natural progressive turning, throttle, and breaking.
Thats the thing that I still don't like about gaming, 99% everything is made for Windows, still to this day, that require configuration of hardware to be done, on Windows. I find this continued approach to be infuriating, and Windows users always defend it, and call us Linux users stupid, for expecting any different. I'm sorry, but I won't defend proprietary BS, neither MS snooping either.
We don't switch to Linux, to fight with infuriating incompatibility. We switch to Linux to get our freedom of choice back, Win10 really was the death of choice, and Win7 was the last to have it. Seeing as what they have done with Win11, its no wonder why people are switching to Linux in droves, especially after support dropped for computers older then a couple years old.
Thankfully, some hardware devices do use web apps for configuration, like my Keychron keyboard for example. Linux is locked up tighter then an adult entertainment shop, which means you better get comfy with using the Terminal, as you need a couple Linux commands, to enable the hardware interface, to the browser, in order to use the web configurator, but it works!
Correct, most computers come with an integrated GPU in the CPU, which is powerful enough for simple games. On a modern day computer, SuperTuxKart should be able to be run on integrated, unless your computer is 10-years old or more. However, for advanced gaming, (which is most gaming) you do need a dedicated GPU.
I watched that video, it was great, thank goodness for subtitles though. I agreed with what he said about the progression of gaming, and how it changed computers. I also agree with what he was saying about the bling bling. Do we need all that RGB? Nope! Does all that lighting look cool though? YES! Back in the old days, we built desktop computer's that used cold cathode light tubes, kids today wouldn't know what a cold cathode was, if it hit them in the face.
RGB wasn't originally designed to make people have rainbow computer's though. It was once again, for the freedom of choice, so you could pick your color, instead of selecting a cold cathode, that was a single color. For reasons unknown to me, computer's ship out today in rainbow mode, as the standard.
I don't play sports games, but you mentioned a kart game & a ball. The only game I know of that has that combination is, Rocket League. I never knew of that game, because I don't play games that simple, that wouldn't leverage an Nvidia 2080, let alone an 5080. I only know of the game cause, I learned about it on Linus Tech Tips. Will the game play on Linux? Through Steam it might? Unless I'm mistaken, I don't believe Rocket League is a native Linux game.
...) game SuperTuxKart but only the funny football hokey parts, the races are boring for me. Play the game with "8Bitdo Ultimate 2 Wireless Controller for Windows & Android, Gaming Controller with TMR Joysticks": works fine under ZorinOS, but any eventual change of the configuration for the keys must be done under Android or Windoof (we called MS DOS and Windows always MS Doof and Windoof: german word doof stands for stupid).