this post was submitted on 01 Jan 2026
1545 points (98.7% liked)

Linux Gaming

22909 readers
1304 users here now

Discussions and news about gaming on the GNU/Linux family of operating systems (including the Steam Deck). Potentially a $HOME away from home for disgruntled /r/linux_gaming denizens of the redditarian demesne.

This page can be subscribed to via RSS.

Original /r/linux_gaming pengwing by uoou.

No memes/shitposts/low-effort posts, please.

Resources

WWW:

Discord:

IRC:

Matrix:

Telegram:

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
monolalia@lemmy.world
1545
PC Gamer: "I'm brave enough to say it: Linux is good now, and if you want to feel like you actually own your PC, make 2026 the year of Linux on (your) desktop" (www.pcgamer.com)
submitted 1 day ago by mr_MADAFAKA@lemmy.ml to c/linux_gaming@lemmy.world
324 comments fedilink hide all child comments
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] uienia@lemmy.world 19 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Made the switch during Christmas to Cachyos. I am extremely glad I did, and so relieved to finally be free of Microsofts clammy grasp.

I already stopped playing online competitive games long ago, so the anti-cheat thing isn't really a problem for me. All the games I want to play works fine, even better in fact than they did on Windows.

[–] zalgotext@sh.itjust.works 3 points 10 hours ago

The competitive game anti-cheat issue is kinda overblown nowadays. A lot of popular competitive FPS games run perfectly fine, anti-cheat and all, on Linux with wine/proton. And the ones that don't either have incredibly invasive anti-cheat that you wouldn't want running on your computer anyways, or have server-side "protections" that properly boot Linux players out of the game for some arbitrary reason.