Nic Junius

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Nic Junius @quakefultales7/2/2023, 11:03 AM

Linux gaming is maybe my future

I got a steamdeck because I am visiting my girlfriend and she requested I "bring something to play VNs on" and my laptop is barely able to run a browser.

So far it's been great outside of a minor hiccup getting the first game to run and it does make me think having linux be a daily driver for a personal computer might be viable since I mostly watch videos, use a web browser, and play games (which now work pretty well on Linux thanks to Valve). I even mostly use plain text editors rather than word processors for writing and most of what I program in my personal time is small enough to not require an IDE.

With all of that in mind I am seriously thinking about making my next personal desktop a Linux box, once I am done with my degree if nothing else

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Hayley Question-Mark @barrowofdirt7/2/2023, 11:48 AM

When I realised that everything I wanted to do could be done without Windows, I got rid of it so quickly. (Read: I agonised for a few months before trying a distro out on a whim and going for that.)

I don't usually play games on my PC, but everything else I want to do is easily done.

Nic Junius @quakefultales7/2/2023, 12:11 PM

If you don't need to do image editing or after effects style work linux is generally pretty good (and a better programming environment by far)

Gaming has come a long long way from the last time I used it at all

Hayley Question-Mark @barrowofdirt7/2/2023, 12:17 PM

I used to play a lot of WoW on Linux/WINE around the TBC/early WotLK. Back then it was all I really played. Then I got a video card which could actually play other video games, so I went to Windows and played a lot more.

FFXIV works okay with Proton now, but I prefer to play on consoles currently.

Video watching, video files in mpv I mean, sometimes has a little screen tearing, but I think I can fix that if I wanted to. I just have to be in the right mood or be annoyed enough...

I do feel more confident rebooting now, though, back in the olden days, rebooting would be "I'm not sure what will break if I do this, so I just won't."

Nic Junius @quakefultales7/2/2023, 12:31 PM

Oh does mpv have screen tearing issues on linux? It's been great on windows for me aside from weird discord screen sharing with other windows covering it

Hayley Question-Mark @barrowofdirt7/2/2023, 12:34 PM

It's almost certainly a problem elsewhere, compositor or GPU drivers. (GTX1070, current drivers, KDE stuff.)

It's a minor thing, though. Like almost exclusively when in full screen, watching anime, and the camera pans up. Otherwise it's almost always fine.

Nic Junius @quakefultales7/2/2023, 12:36 PM

Oh how are the nvidia linux drivers? It's the one place I've heard AMD's drivers are better (I have usually had middling to bad experiences with them on windows because of the games I play)

Hayley Question-Mark @barrowofdirt7/2/2023, 12:38 PM

They seemed fine, for the most part. I can run FFXIV about as well as I could on Windows, but that's the most taxing game I played on Linux so far.

Kylie @KylieNeko7/2/2023, 2:20 PM

The only thing you'll definitely miss out on are any games that rely on ~~rootkit malware~~ kernel level anti-cheat tech.

I'm in the same boat -- next computer may be Linux based. All the programs I need either have equivalents that are acceptable or, frequently, are built for both already. Just need to take a distro for a test drive for the drawing tablet support.

Nic Junius @quakefultales7/2/2023, 3:50 PM

Yeah I still play a lot of Destiny which is I think the only game I own that can't be used on proton at the moment

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