I’ve been incredibly skeptical of Linux gaming for a long time now. But more than that I’ve been fed up with windows. I finally bit the bullet and bought some new ssd’s. Burned a bazzite iso and booted from the thumb drive. Honestly? The setup was flawless. The only thing I could see a non-technical person struggling with is burning images and booting from a drive. If a shop starts selling pre-builts with Linux configured for gaming then this might actually be the year of the Linux desktop

Now excuse me I’m gonna go play Arx Fatalis

  • themachine@lemmy.worldEnglish
    18·
    19 days ago

    You’ll likely run into some problems eventually but yes, for the most part things work very well now. My only significant problems are typically cause by anti-cheat software.

    • DreamButt@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      6·
      18 days ago

      oh for sure. I dont really play a lot of high budge games anyway. I’ve already talked my partner into it and literally her only reaction was oh so I can stop getting those windows 11 notifications? thank god

  • DreamButt@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
    3·
    18 days ago

    After tinkering with it a bunch this morning I will say that all the things that I can see normie’s struggling with are:

    • drive management (renaming, mounting, etc)
    • grub, or as they might call it “that menu thing that shows up for 5 seconds”
    • setting up the thumb drive itself

    That said I still think pre-builts with good defaults could smooth most of this out