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) :)
C’mon you’ve ditched windows but your wallpaper is full of them… /s
https://pasteboard.co/WwGnfrEBrQVJ.jpg
You can hear the doorbell
Whoo!!! Congrats, that looks great!
Thank you!! It’s not all my doing (the ricing), it’s based on some dotfiles from the creator of Archcraft :)
No shame in that! Code was made to be reused and repurposed, and I’m impressed at how quickly you’ve gotten into modifying your dotfiles! Cheers and welcome to the Linux community!
Thank you! Wayfire’s ini file is very easy to understand, and rather straigthforward, so is the documentation for it. It’s my first time using a WM and I’m never going back to standard DE’s, my workflow is so much faster!
Installed Linux on my gaming rig, now it’s a rig.
Gaming on Linux has improved so much it’s come to the point I only need windows for one game, that game being beamng.drive, and the only reason I ztill need windows for it is because for complicated reasons (that only the Dev team fully understands) the windows build runs like shit on proton, and the multiplayer mod for it won’t run on Linux, or at least haven’t figured out a way to make it run. Everything else? Perfect
Happy to have more Linux gamers on board
I know it’s not perfect yet, which is why when i built my PC, I went with Windows (I’m usually a Linux & macOS user), even if I didn’t want to. I didn’t want to waste my 2,000$ gaming PC by not being able to game well. Well, I’ll eat my words because it runs all my games perfectly fine. I just need to figure out Skyrim modding with MO2 but I’m told it works :)
Hopefully all your games work fine someday!
I just yesterday decided to give Linux a try and quickly switched back to Windows. The 2 main things preventing me from switching to Linux is the lack of proper HDR support and poor refresh rate support. I’m honestly bewildered that Linux doesn’t have proper support for relatively common things that have been around for pretty much 2 decades. Hope those things get added soon
I game in 120hz on a 30 inch 4k screen. Are you on Wayland? Xorg is old and have issues. Also avoid Nvidia at all costs. Get amd.
For VRR, using Plasma on Wayland seems to work just fine for me (after you enable it), as long as the game in question is in full screen; it doesn’t seem to trigger otherwise. I think I ran a mixed refresh rates setup once too (165hz and 60hz) and didn’t have any issues. Idk how X11 handles mixed refresh rates (if at all), but it definitely didn’t support VRR well if at all when I tried.
Re: HDR, yeah. Color management is also missing in Wayland (but present on X11) iirc.
(In case you didn’t know, there’s currently two display “servers”/protocols that are in popular use, X11 and Wayland. X11 is old and has screen tearing issues, but greater support in general. Wayland is newer and has far more isolation between programs, and aims to replace it (and Fedora already has made it default, iirc))
Welcome to the Linux community, friend!
Thank you! It’s cozy here :)
I use Arsch btw
Lol, autokorrektur ftw
I still have a windows partition out of habit (a Steam partition, really) despite running Linux as my main system for 30 years or so.
However, it’s now been ages since I’ve had to boot windows to run something. It all runs fine in Linux nowadays.
Maybe I’ll stop waiting to need it and just add an extra XFS or whatever disk to my system one of those days.
I’ve deleted my Windows partition because I would have needed to reinstall anyways, my partition table was not to my liking and I just said screw it. I hope I won’t regret it! I only have a Win 10 VM at the moment.
If you don’t use the Windows drive I’d say, take that space back :)
@MrShelbySan Sorry to be that person, but… Source on the wallpaper? It looks very nice.
EDIT: looks like https://twitter.com/HHibikitsuki (not sure it’s reverse search)
Don’t apologize! Someone else in the thread asked for it and the original artist was linked. I’m on mobile so linking it will be a pain but if you scroll you’ll find it in better resolution :)
That’s sweet of you. I missed search then, then :)
My pleasure ! :)
Congrats! If you haven’t already, don’t be afraid to distro-hop or spin up VMs with virt-manager to test out other flavors of Linux and/or Desktop Environments. I would stick to opinionated configurations while you’re starting out, since you probably don’t know what exactly you like yet.
If you ever have questions, check the wiki before using search engines, because it usually has the recommended way of doing things and sometimes information online can even get outdated.
Hey there! I’ve tried many distros in the past and always come back to Arch :) I’m pretty familiar with how it works, where to find information, the AUR, etc.! Thanks!
That’s a nice config you have there and despite what others say, Arch is an excellent choice for starter. Have a nice ride!
Thank you. For sure, I could recommend Arch to beginners. I used to recommend Ubuntu but I’m not so sure about it anymore, it seems to have gone corporate with Caninocal’s “Ubuntu One” etc. Linux Mint is also another distro I’d recommend to beginners.
I tried pop os a while ago and it wasn’t enough to ditch windows, but I wanted to come back to it in the future. Well … the future is now - do you know about how Pop os looks right now?
Well, I haven’t used Pop!_OS myself, but it’s all Linux, so the concepts are the same. You’ll have Steam, Lutris, Proton, it’s all applicable. And it uses ubuntu/debian as a base, so you should have all your apps available, or good alternatives.
Great, thank you!
Nuking your windows drive and not dual booting is a very brave decision. Not having another OS (where you know the way) waving at you makes the Linux learning experience much more rewarding.
For sure. I wanted to dual boot at first but I had multiple partitions and drives formatted as NTFS. Plus my EFI partition was too small.
I would have needed to nuke everything anyways, create a neat partition table, install windows again, then install Arch. And then I know you get issues like the time being messed up, Bluetooth can be fudged too. I decided to just try this for a few weeks and see how it goes. :)
FYI if you decide to dual boot at some point you can set Windows to use UTC. It’s even less intuitive than how systemd can be set to local time.
Also if you can, if you decide to dual boot I recommend separate drives. Windows has gotten nicer but it still doesn’t play well with others because, let’s be honestly, most of the time it doesn’t have to. So if you run recovery if Windows doesn’t boot, it’s not unusual for it to nuke EFI like it’s still the 90s and Win98 just nuked LILO.
Yeah im aware. I’ve had to do it in the past, it’s a registry edit IIRC
I went a few years with just a single boot system at home and you definitely learn a lot that way lol
Beautiful build! I heard people talking about gaming on linux but actually seeing you talking about running triple A games that weren’t made with linux in mind made me get filled with joy, I can’t wait to play Stray.
Thank you! I was super excited too when i did my research :) And Stray is actually what I’m playing right now ! I’m seeing some slight stutters but I haven’t configured anything or tried other Proton versions yet.
Are you on Nvidia and if so how do you make it not suck? I feel like preformance has gotten worse not better over the years. The exact same games with the same settings preform much worse for me on Linux.
No unfortunately I’m not buying a Radeon I need the Nvidia for work.
Nope I’m full AMD. I’m not entirely sure how NVIDIA works on Linux. I just know it doesn’t work well with Wayland. And fair enough for not buying AMD. Personally, I would do some research, try some things, but I’m really not familiar with NVIDIA card I’m afraid :(
Switched recently and using Nvidia. It’s a headache either way but I’ve had less issues with Wayland than x11.
Yeah, I’m told NVIDIA is not a very fun experience :(
My dude, read the neofetch
AMD ATI Radeon RX 5600 OEM/5600 XT
The what? Oh the tiny ass text in the image on my phone that I didn’t see.
Yeah, guys. Can someone please share their experience with Arch and Nvidia? I’m looking to switch for quite some time now, because Windows is just a bloated confusion of an OS, but I always hear that Nvidia drivers are a piece of garbage on Linux. How true is this and can you do something about it?
I’m running Arch on my Tuxedo Stellaris 17 laptop with a 3070 and I have basically no issues except I haven’t managed to properly run Sway. But Hyprland and XFCE work great, and so do Steam games.
I’m in Nvidia EndevourOS (archbased) installed it with KDE X11, honestly didn’t see any issues with it, the only real downside is that you don’t have the profile manager per 3D app like on windows. Neither do you have Reflex, other than that everything works well.
Arch, i3, GTX 3080 12GB, and no issues. I’m holding off migrating to Wayland for the sake of full compatibility with all screen-sharing solutions.
I’ve never really experienced any issues pairing Linux with nVidia, so I have trouble personally relating to all the hate they catch. There have been a few times where the kernel and the nVidia driver were mismatched, which caused issues trying to start up Xorg, but that’s easily solvable.
Arch with a 3080 ti using the nvidia-dkms package. Had to set up some pacman hooks to rebuild init whenever Nvidia driver, Linux kernel, or systemd gets an update, otherwise the system doesn’t boot, and I’ve had to boot from the Arch iso, chroot into my install and then run mkinitcpio. So there was some slight annoyance there.
But gaming I’ve had little to no issues at all. Some games have performed better, some worse, but none of the games I’ve played have been outright broken.
I wish, but all I play right now is Diablo IV and COD:MW2 (2023 version) and neither works on Linux. Maybe in the 2030s.
Hmm, what issues did you have with D4 on Linux? That’s been my preferred way of playing it since the beta.
Not sure about MW2 unfortunately though.
The last time I bothered to try was a few years ago. I didn’t realize it was possible to install Battle.net now. I’ll have to take another look at it on my laptop with Manjaro installed.
Ah fair enough! If you do end up giving it a try, my preferred method is via Bottles - but I’ve heard other people recommend Lutris as well.
I have an Nvidia 2080 and for me the game plays just as well in Linux as it does Windows. From what I’m aware, most of the Blizzard games play on Linux - I’ve personally played D3, D4, and OW/OW2 (which is coming to Steam to make it even easier) on Linux without problem.
Diablo IV definitely works in Linux. I played Sorc all the way to level 75 just fine. You can install Battle.net via Lutris, Bottles, or even directly via Proton Experimental in Steam and then install Diablo IV from there.
Oh, interesting! How is performance compared to running on Windows?
It seems to work great at least in my experience on Manjaro. Lutris is also great at what it does and makes the setup relatively easy.
That’s fair.
i would prefer use linux rather an CoD player
Troll OFF
Seriously, if you need FPS game and you have not your heart in CoD, you can make the moove.
D4 works fine. just use lutris.
Always happy to see another user join the ranks of gamers on Linux. I’ve been gaming for years now since proton came. The fact that it’s just a checkbox in steam to use proton is fantastic.
Steam has been working perfectly for me (except Anti-Cheat stuff) Some other titles (especially League of Legends) still don’t work reliable for me. (If you know League, it can be a little … frustrating)
I don’t play it by my boyfriend does. There’s a whole community over at /c/leagueoflinux that might be able to help!
Lutris install + installing wine-lol-bin from AUR as runner has been working near flawlessly for me. Only the event page sometimes bug out, but I never participating one so it doesnt bother me.
Okay thanks, I will try it
