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Epic Games Admits In Court That Its PC Store Still Isn't Profitable (kotaku.com)

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[–] Zuberi@lemmy.dbzer0.com 24 points 2 years ago (11 children)

If you haven't tried a linux distro since the release of the SteamDeck, I highly recommend you give gaming on linux a shot.

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[–] ajrwill@lemmy.world 61 points 2 years ago

Gotta love the diehard linux users promoting their preferred OS on a topic even slightly related.

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[–] Carmine_Dionysus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 32 points 2 years ago

Man, I enjoy Linux too, but I cannot see how its related to the post.

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[+] the_of_and_a_to@lemmy.world 15 points 2 years ago (1 child)

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[–] Natanael@slrpnk.net 14 points 2 years ago

Yes, both from Valve working hard on compatibility and game devs testing against it

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[–] herr@lemmy.world 15 points 2 years ago (1 child)

Having been on Linux for over a year now, I don't. It's still plagued by instability, weird bugs, and big limitations whenever non-Steam games are involved.

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[–] mineapple@feddit.de 3 points 2 years ago

You mean games that arent available in steam at all, vor those which you haven't bought there? I found the easiest workaround for me was to simply add the games to my steam library and to launch it from there. Then I don't have to worry about what proton version I should use or whatnot.

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[–] Huschke@programming.dev 7 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Which destro would you recommend? I'm kind of sick of Windows.

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[–] Zuberi@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 2 years ago (1 child)

Fedora with "Dash to Panel" and the "Applications Menu" make the GUI identical to Windows. That would be a good start :)

https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/1160/dash-to-panel/ https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/6/applications-menu/

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[–] DarkThoughts@kbin.social 0 points 2 years ago

Or just use KDE instead of Gnome. It's such a terrible DE anyway.

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[–] mindlight@lemm.ee 5 points 2 years ago

If you want a Couch Gaming Station I recommend you to look at ChimeraOS. Linux first that boots directly to Stream Big Picture (since it's based on SteamOS) and it supports emulators and Epic Game Store.

On my old i5-8700T with qUHD630 it pretty much was a install, reboot, login to Steam and start playing. My Wireless Xbox Controller USB dongle was plug'n'play.

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[–] A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

Nobara has, for me, been the most plug and play no headache distro I've touched, ever.

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[–] mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 years ago*

What brand of graphics card do you have? If it's Nvidia Pop!_OS will likely work best. If you have an AMD card I've heard good things about EndeavorOS.

Also, feel free to shop around for a desktop environment (DE) you like, which controls the look and how things are organized. While distros have a default, it's pretty easy to swap them. I personally use KDE Plasma (the same DE the Steam Deck uses) with Pop!_OS

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[–] sheogorath@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago (1 child)

How's the performance on Nvidia cards? Most benchmarks that I saw are people using AMD cards.

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[–] Zuberi@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 2 years ago (2 children)

NVIDIA is a one-line command to install and setup the drivers.

For me? Most of my games run better on Linux. Such as CSGO, which is why I initially switched.

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[–] Knightfox@lemmy.one 4 points 2 years ago (1 child)

I generally prefer AMD, how are they for Linux?

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[–] Matt@lemdro.id 10 points 2 years ago

Great! You don’t even need to install any drivers. It just works.

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[–] mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 years ago

Also some distros like Pop!_OS just have it included and automatically update them

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[–] Draedron@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 2 years ago

Thanks for the tip but no

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[–] Coreidan@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago (1 child)

Not worth the hassle but you do you. Keep fighting the good fight.

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[–] MartinXYZ@sh.itjust.works 1 point 2 years ago

Keep fighting the good fight.

And it really is the good fight in this case. I've been running Linux on my gaming PC for around four years with very little trouble. Games from Epic and GOG run very well(for me at least) through Heroic Games Launcher. I've been using Windows for work on/off the last couple of years, but especially since they "upgraded" to Windows 11, it's such a relief to come home to Linux.

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[–] Smacks@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

What does this have to do with the Epic store?

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[–] PeWu@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago

Sorry, I'll wait some more. I tried two times getting back to Linux as I see the potential. It didn't work. I'm gonna stick to windows until some problems will be fixed, or Microsoft further enshittifies itself.

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[–] 666dollarfootlong@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago

No thanks

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