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How to Game on Linux - Roger Presents Garuda [Swedish with EN subs]
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Who needs a video tutorial for "hit the play button in Steam"?
How to get performance boosts through the newest drivers. How to play games and streaming them on discord without tanking the framerate. How to troubleshoot if something goes wrong. Which kernel to use, etc.
There are so many Nuances to gaming on Linux, so there's definitely a market for it. Not seen this video yet though, could be just surface level stuff.
aka. How 2 install updates
The default one
Its not that hard if you RTFM. And if you dont, you shouldnt use linux in the first place
That's a bit reductive, don't you think?
The beauty of Linux is its wonderful ability to be customized. Maybe Xanmod is a good kernel for you if you play games?
Maybe if you use a desktop environment with Wayland, you'll have less issues with screen sharing in Discord.
It's always nice to hear what other people's experiences are. Depending on the distro, updating drivers can be a bit trickier than noobs might expect since "Driver manager" might not actually have the newest drivers, etc.
Telling people to RTFM is all well and good, but why not share the stuff you've learned with others who are just getting started?
You are talking about an imaginary Audience
The normal just switched from win guy who looks up youtube videos about how to game on linux knows and cares less about linux than my guinea pig (tho, I think she knows more about linux than me after listening to me try to install gentoo for a week straight, so idk). Telling them to use x kernel, y DE with z Kernel Flags with a changed vim.conf just makes it look like its a hassle to use Linux. If someone wants to learn about linux and go into such details, they will
So by making it look like these are basic steps in order to get a game running is counterproductive if only meant well
Its like if you would ask me how to drive a car, and I would go on a 2 hour tangent about synchronising the time the spark plugs fire and replacing the carburator for a more costum design so it sucks out the condensation out of the pipes after shutting off, therefore making corrosion less likely.
Even tho I could have just as well told you to fill up the gas tank at a station and turn the keys, which would have brought me sufficient results anyway
The Linux community had never once been able to grasp the concept of someone using Linux and not giving a single flying fuck about Linux.
People are here cause they hate windows, not cause they like Linux. Describes a LOT of gamers that are coming over right now.
Yet people keep pointing them at distros that ARNT something like cachy.
Valve, targets a arch based kde distro. THAT is what you should be giving gamers. That's going to have the least issues, the best support, is what most gaming communities make their tools, tutorials and guides around.
Do not give them gnome, stop suggesting mint or pop os. Great distros, but for people that want to use Linux. Not gamers wanting to game.
Gaming basically mandates that you are on very up to date systems if you want properly supported anything. It's like that in windows it's no different on Linux. You can be on a out of date system and have things works but it only creates more and more possible problems.
The fact I see people in this thread talking about proton 9 beta when 10 is out SCREAMS that the problem is almost entirely because they are on a distro that's using a older kernel and out of date packages.
This
You dont expect every car owner to know everything about it, so dont place the same standard for Linux
Seither that, or gatekeep Linux The right way
Aye, alright fair enough.
I won't argue with you.
Unfortunately it's not that simple.
For the vast majority of games it really is that simple though.
It isn't. Not for a single one.
True. First you have to go into Steam settings and tick a box. Then you can play
I have been on linux for 5 years and have playing games, and the numer of games that needed ANY configuration I can count on one hand.
If you cant get STEAM games to work on your system, you're doing something wrong.
Most games are just as simple as pressing start.
Then you must have forgotten that 5 years ago you had to go into the settings and enable Steam Play, which is completely ridiculous, and incredibly unintuitive.
One setting... Five years ago... I mean, if we're being that pedantic, I also need to install the game before I launch it.
Its not pedantic. I've seen entire videos made trashing Linux for this single reason, because they didn't know the setting existed. And how would they? It doesn't give any sort of prompt and "Steam Play" is just nonsense words that don't indicate anything having to do with linux.
That's just the tip of the iceberg, especially when looking at games outside of Steam. Because that becomes WAY more complicated. And we should want people to play more than just Steam games.
We clearly have differing opinions on what the word "simple" means, as per your original reply.
I would argue that games outside of steam is almost as simple as steam, if not for the fact that you need to know what software to download in advanced.
"Simple" was my reply to a very specific statement of "hit the play button in Steam", it was not a generic statement. You're purposefully taking what I said out of context.
And I would call that a blatant lie.
And a long list of information on how to configure it. Hence the tutorial.
What kind of gaes do you play? I've not needed to configue a single game in years, just download and play. I even pirate games and thattoo is just download and play. What kind of configuration are you talking about?
If you already play games on Linux then you already know. There's no need for me to explain it. Just watch the video in OP.