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Gaming on Fedora Silverblue (lemmy.one)

submitted 2 years ago by DidacticDumbass@lemmy.one to c/linux_gaming@lemmy.ml

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I am freaking out on how well distrobox is working for me. I buy a lot of games on itch.io and GOG, and neither have a flatpak. However, installing an Ubuntu container (max compatibility) and launching games from there just works. Okay, I have yet to install a GOG game, but it the Itch client works then what won't?

I am so excited. Containers are so fun. I guess arch would be easier, but whatevs.

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[–] alt@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago (7 children)

I cannot wait to get home and try it out!

Please consider reporting back after you've tried it; I'd love to read your experiences.

[–] DidacticDumbass@lemmy.one 1 points 2 years ago (4 children)

So it turns out, I cannot use my NVIDIA card using distrobox. I guess it only works with AMD?

Anyways, gaming using Bazzite is a dead end for me. I still find Fedora Silverblue super fun to use, and I think I will just run Steam + Lutris using Flatpaks. I was wondering if distrobox would somehow allow better performance, but I don't understand the technology well enough to even make those presumption. I see that this image is used a lot on Steam Deck, which I also don't understand why (as opposed to having everything native).

Anyways, I can still game well on Silverblue. Baldur's Gate 3 runs okay. So, that means I am fine, hah!

The only gripe I have, which is just my stupidity, is that I have way of using Mozilla VPN. I tried to run it on an Ubuntu container, but I must be doing something wrong because it does not launch. Maybe I need to look into podman more closely, or maybe I am missing some graphical dependencies that is assumed to exist on a DE. I shall keep trying.

[–] jlow@beehaw.org 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Concerning Baldur's Gate, are you using Wayland or X11? For me Wayland was much smoother than X11.

[–] DidacticDumbass@lemmy.one 1 points 2 years ago

I think I am using Wayland since that is the default.

Also, I once made the mistake of running on DX11, which was worse.

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