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I've been debating making the switch for a long time, but after spending like a week researching Proton, Lutris etc. on Linux, I decided to try it out and nuked my entire Windows 11 drive. :)

So far, every game I threw at it works perfectly fine, including Elden Ring & Cyberpunk.

I had to spend a little time troubleshooting some small issues but it's part of the fun!

Specs are in the neofetch, my compositor / WM is Wayfire (Wayland) :)

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[–] housepanther@lemmy.goblackcat.com 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I went to Arch and haven't looked back. It's a great distro!

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[–] inurblacchole@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (5 children)

howwwwww. i have a pretty nice amd chip and radeon graphics card, on arch with wayland. i get stuttering, which i read was normal, on my more intensive games like dead space. deep rock galactic i can't play with my friends and it also stutters...what were the small issues you troubleshooted?

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[–] GustavoM@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (3 children)

My man just went from 0 to hero in one single tap! Nicely done.

It took me like a couple months (4'ish) to start using Arch Linux.

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[–] SamXavia@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago (9 children)

@MrShelbySan I would love to be able to leave Windows for Linux just sadly I can't with needing certain apps like Adobe to be useable on it.

[–] cultsuperstar@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Is dual booting not an option?

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[–] Anticorp@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago (6 children)

How do you install non-steam games? Specifically Cyberpunk and Eve Online?

[–] Ocelot@lemmies.world 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

lutris. even has a little button to add it to steam.

[–] Kushia@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

This is basically the recommended way to install Eve these days.

At one point when they were testing what is now the current launcher it worked flawlessly on Linux because it was based on Qt and they were compiling a Linux binary for it. It fired the game up in Wine and all was great.

They dropped that support fairly quick though sadly once it became the actual new launcher.

[–] codanaut@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Just a heads up, Eve works but it’s pretty flaky. It’s working better then it was a few months ago but I still can’t play more then maybe 15-30 min before it just totally crashes. A lot of time when leaving stations it freezes for awhile and a lot of the game assets don’t seem to always render in. Sometimes opening the menus or settings crashes it, for some reason opening the map and selecting jump points is really bad about causing freezing. Trying it again about a week ago I lost a ship because the game froze then crashed mid fight and when I managed to get back in my ship was destroyed.

[–] Anticorp@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

That's not really playable then when the risks are as high as they are in Eve. Thanks for the heads-up.

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[–] backhdlp@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

How long have you been using Linux for?

[–] MrShelbySan@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 2 years ago

Hey! It's been a long time since I've used it as my main OS, but since Ubuntu 11.04, I've been on and off on Linux. I've tried many distros, Ubuntu, Linux Mint, Arch, Manjaro, Antergos, elementaryOS, Fedora, Solus... I've tried pretty much every "mainstream" distro, and always come back to Arch.

[–] Nuuskis9@feddit.nl 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

You probably want to replace your neofetch with fastfetch from AUR :)

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[–] stagen@feddit.dk 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Isn't it a lot of effort to set up the games, though?

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