@theshatterstone54
Those assholes...
@Fizz

@theshatterstone54 @Fizz I've bought a physical copy of every switch game I've ever played on Yuzu on my Steam Deck... It was just nice having to only carry one portable about, and a superior overall gaming experience. I'll never do business with Nintendo again over this...

@bionicjoey @sirsquid They've had a lot of patreon money being funnelled in for years now...

@Chadus_Maximus @_Sprite Personally I go the opposite way... If a game stops working on Linux, I stop playing it... There are too many enjoyable games in the world to stick to just one 😅

@Gork @mr_MADAFAKA The deck and all these handhelds just drive game sales on Steam, which is where Valve makes all it's money... Competition between handhelds doesn't bother them!

@sugar_in_your_tea @fossisfun It's also just straight-up more daunting to update an application running inside a container, and a lot harder to troubleshoot when it goes wrong.

@beesterman @lightnsfw What?!? I run games using proton on an NTFS partition just fine...

If you do this it's safer to use lowntfs-3g so everything is forced to lower case... And yes using a proper linux filesystem is way safer.

@alwaysconfused @Peafield Can always use NixOS if you need a reproducable system that you reinstall frequently?

@haych @vis4valentine At least 347... https://www.protondb.com/app/12210

@jannem @hydroel It's a good starting point... I've never been a huge fan of the Ubuntu Desktop environment. Snaps can behave a little weirdly at times (I had issues getting a VR Headset working with the snap version of Steam). I'm not sure what their GPU driver situation is these days, I know they were providing older drivers in their repositories a few years ago. POP_OS! is a nice ubuntu based option too...

@hydroel Two biggest drawbacks are certain games with anti-cheat not running (however some do), and peripheral support (my Thrustmaster racing wheel doesn't get force feedback).

Some games (Like Factorio) have a better native Linux version than the Native Windows version.

I use Arch Linux, but wouldn't recommend it to a novice. If you're only gaming ChimeraOS is a good place to start. If you're really new to Linux and scared to break things, an immutable OS like Vanilla may be better suited.

@hitagi @hydroel Overwatch definately works on Linux, I play it daily 😅 (Between Steam, Lutris, and Herioc Launcher most of the bases are covered)

@mouse @Zaphodquixote I dual boot with Windows 11 and very rarely find myself not using Linux... It plays every game I've thrown at it in the last 6 months. The only time I end up using Windows is because I want to use a specific peripheral, like my steering wheel for racing games, rather than because Linux won't run the game! Lutris is great for non-steam games. Runs Overwatch 2, Diablo IV, Guildwars 2, and League of Legends perfectly for me. GloriousEggroll is worth looking at too 🙂