I was so reluctant to transition to Linux for gaming. I’ve been using Linux since 2007, so I’m not new to the OS.

I took the plunge a handful of months ago, and it is an amazing experience. The games I like to play actually saw performance gains when switching over.

I still dual boot a Win 10 partition for outliers, but so far the only game to get installed there has been BF6, due to the requirements of their anti-cheat.

I can’t disagree. But a couple of friends and I like to play a few casual bot rounds on Friday nights.

How shit gaming had been on it, for the majority of it’s lifetime.

If I have an .exe from the high seas that still needs to be unpacked/installed how do I deal with it?

Just started using Linux for playing, currently playing Dispatch (highly recommend it), used Lutris to first install the compacted .exe and then run the launcher .exe. Is there a better way to go about it?

How much of the tweaking is actually noticeable? Not trying to be a dick here. I’m so old that we didn’t use to have GPUs, we had graphics cards and nobody had a “rig”. Overclocking or hardware mods was the only way if you weren’t willing to spend money on new hardware. Not saying Bazzite is that kind of distro but I’m so old I don’t trust some spazzed out maintainer with cat ears and a discord channel. Let me break my own shit, you don’t have to do it for me.

I have the exact same experience as you with Debian 11-13 and gaming. Both with Nvidia and AMD cards, various chipsets etc. Everything works. Sometimes after reading a few lines of official documentation and installing a package or two but that’s about it.

The only thing that ever required some head scratching was the infamous EA and Rockstar launcher but that’s not a Debian or even a Linux problem… Everything else is identical to windows. Click install. Wait. Click play. Everything works in-game. What am I missing?

Ah I see. I guess it makes sense to squeeze out every single % in such cases.

also I had to set my CPU governor to performance

I believe most DE has an addon or equivalent for setting that.

Made the switch during Christmas to Cachyos. I am extremely glad I did, and so relieved to finally be free of Microsofts clammy grasp.

I already stopped playing online competitive games long ago, so the anti-cheat thing isn’t really a problem for me. All the games I want to play works fine, even better in fact than they did on Windows.

I am brave enough to say it: The ocean has water in it.

Praise me for my braveness.

I AM VERY BADASS

The steam hardware survey showed Linux has 3.8% while Mac has 2.2% and windows the remaining 94%

Desktop Linux is niche, it will always be niche if they continue to ignore the user experience. Linux is for nerds, Linux nerds love that.