The barrier to entry is still too high for the majority of folks on this sub, let alone the average PC gamer.
We’re getting there and I think we’re close.
Edit: Rage if you want, but it doesn’t change reality. If Linux were as accessible as its greatest advocates claim, PC gamers would flock to it if for no other reason than it’s free. I’ve used Linux and while it isn’t as bad as some claim it is, it’s far from the perfect alternative to Windows that others claim it is. It gets better each passing day and I think we’ll get there sooner rather than later. Being angry and mean isn’t going to convince anyone to try Linux, you dork.
Henry_Fleischer
I just kinda installed the OS and did dumb stuff to it until it worked… It didn’t come with drivers so I installed them and it worked fine after that…
Ripped_Alleles
I’ve had a great time gaming on Linux. The overwhelming majority if not entirely steam library appears to be compatible.
Turtle_Online
I dunno, I was able to install Bazzite on an AMD laptop/tablet recently and it’s been pretty easy to use and games run fine. I haven’t had to install a single driver and everything worked except I needed a fix for the volume keys. I honestly spend more time debloating a fresh windows install than getting Bazzite running.
The_Duke28
I don’t know what you’re on about, but I made the switch to Linux Mint couple months ago. I never tried it before and I’m a complete Linux noob.
I had 0 issues.
Everything just works so far. Old games, new games, doesn’t matter. It runs.
(I only play singleplayer games)
Desperate-Intern
And the circle jerk continues…
stoneseef
I haven’t used Linux in nearly 20 years. Should I give it a go?
CrypticBlossom808
Have had little problem with Nobara… so….. yeah
GloriousKev
I moved to Linux a few weeks ago and I’m mostly happy. I do have some compatibility issues but it’s rare. In fact more games run on Linux than on Windows in my experience.
LuminanceGayming
>no gpu drivers
wat? no like actually what are you talking about?
confused_patterns
I have been gaming on Linux for three months with no issues. Doom the dark ages, cyberpunk, table top simulator, bulletstorm, helldivers, it all works just fine. I haven’t booted windows at all in that time.
Festering-Fecal
I switched to pop OS a year ago and it’s been pretty painless.
There’s maybe a handful of games that won’t run because they won’t enable it to run on Linux ( anti cheat) but most games run including competitive ones.
I have 2 drives I keep pop on one and windows on the other but I can’t recall when I have had to use Windows.
AbleBonus9752
It took me like an hour to realise that Wayland wasn’t using my Nvidia GPU and I was so confused as to why my games were running like shit 😭
cyxlone
tfw you installed ubuntu with old ahh drivers
paradigmx
I’ve been using Linux for 25 years, the last 4 have been the most incredible. I have finally been able to completely eliminate windows from my life.
xyrer
No drivers? Slower? Incompatible what? You gotta be just dumb to fail like that. Nowadays it’s just install, update, open steam and play.
Frossstbiite
Skill issue fedora has been working fine for 2 years now
Tiranus58
I (kind of) understand the other stuff, but how do you get an incompatible kernel?
Youngnathan2011
How old is this meme?
_silentgameplays_
There is one major detail you forgot to mention Linux is not Windows. Windows users will have to learn a new operating system if they want to switch to Linux. There is no way around it and it applies to Windows, macOS and Linux, these are all different operating systems if you want to use them efficiently you will have to learn how they work or you will have a very hard time adjusting your workflow.
What you described is mostly 2018-2017 Linux gaming experience with modern MP titles Valorant/Fortnite//LoL/Destiny 2/Apex/GTA Online that have intrusive kernel level DRM anticheats.
For single player games and supported multiplayer games Linux today it’s much easier.
After fiddling around with Windows 11 and installing a bunch of directx, all vcredist versions, a bunch of fixes from pcgamingwiki to make older 10-20 year old games work and they still crash at some point, due to whatever the heck Windows 11 is doing, just switching between GE Proton and Proton versions in Steam with a few tweaks from protondb on Linux seems like a walk in the park.
The GPU drivers problem you are referring to is an NVIDIA problem, because NVIDIA hates their gamer users everywhere and hates their Linux users even more for decades. So on Linux you only have proprietary user space NVIDIA driver blobs that can break after each kernel update and have poor Wayland support, especially on non RTX series GPU’s.
If you want to use Linux you are stuck with AMD Hardware, Steam Deck uses only AMD hardware, you can use NVIDIA, but it’s support on Linux is somewhat limited and you will have to do additional tinkering.
Specific-Listen-6859
I found switching to Linux to be pretty freaking simple for me, but again I kinda only play single player games, and go on LTS kernels on a rolling distro.
sirsnydley
Loved gaming on Linux until it came to 3rd party wireless VR support. I run an og oculus quest and want to play games like elite dangerous, bone works, flight sim, and assetto corsa and making that work on Linux was just way too much effort.
TrollCannon377
Pretty much the opposite experience for me, I run an AMD GPU so drivers are just a non issue for me and every single game I play is either gold or higher or just flat out native on Linux,.the only games that have anti cheat are also games I avoid due to the toxic playerbase
A_Neko_C
Bait used to be believable
Jackpkmn
Did this meme fall out of a time warp from 2012?
billyp673
I’m going to commit a programmer sin and say, “works fine on my machine”
juanjose83
I just know windows works and that’s all I meed
Rex__Nihilo
Lot of people here acting all elite about their Linux PCs. Ive used both. Linux is technically more capable, but Windows is waaaay less likely to need you to spend an hour solving a problem when you just want to play Celeste. If you love Linux that’s great, but the cost of problem solving Linux is too high for a lot of legit PCMasterRacers who just want their stuff to work without having to Google problems and throw console commands they dont understand into the void hoping it’ll magically fix their stuff so they can send an email.
Daemoni-73
When Nvidia makes drivers for Linux and every single game works like they do in Windows, I’m switching. Until then you can keep whining about it PC Jehovah’s witnesses.
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The barrier to entry is still too high for the majority of folks on this sub, let alone the average PC gamer.
We’re getting there and I think we’re close.
Edit: Rage if you want, but it doesn’t change reality. If Linux were as accessible as its greatest advocates claim, PC gamers would flock to it if for no other reason than it’s free. I’ve used Linux and while it isn’t as bad as some claim it is, it’s far from the perfect alternative to Windows that others claim it is. It gets better each passing day and I think we’ll get there sooner rather than later. Being angry and mean isn’t going to convince anyone to try Linux, you dork.
I just kinda installed the OS and did dumb stuff to it until it worked… It didn’t come with drivers so I installed them and it worked fine after that…
I’ve had a great time gaming on Linux. The overwhelming majority if not entirely steam library appears to be compatible.
I dunno, I was able to install Bazzite on an AMD laptop/tablet recently and it’s been pretty easy to use and games run fine. I haven’t had to install a single driver and everything worked except I needed a fix for the volume keys. I honestly spend more time debloating a fresh windows install than getting Bazzite running.
I don’t know what you’re on about, but I made the switch to Linux Mint couple months ago. I never tried it before and I’m a complete Linux noob.
I had 0 issues.
Everything just works so far. Old games, new games, doesn’t matter. It runs.
(I only play singleplayer games)
And the circle jerk continues…
I haven’t used Linux in nearly 20 years. Should I give it a go?
Have had little problem with Nobara… so….. yeah
I moved to Linux a few weeks ago and I’m mostly happy. I do have some compatibility issues but it’s rare. In fact more games run on Linux than on Windows in my experience.
>no gpu drivers
wat? no like actually what are you talking about?
I have been gaming on Linux for three months with no issues. Doom the dark ages, cyberpunk, table top simulator, bulletstorm, helldivers, it all works just fine. I haven’t booted windows at all in that time.
I switched to pop OS a year ago and it’s been pretty painless.
There’s maybe a handful of games that won’t run because they won’t enable it to run on Linux ( anti cheat) but most games run including competitive ones.
I have 2 drives I keep pop on one and windows on the other but I can’t recall when I have had to use Windows.
It took me like an hour to realise that Wayland wasn’t using my Nvidia GPU and I was so confused as to why my games were running like shit 😭
tfw you installed ubuntu with old ahh drivers
I’ve been using Linux for 25 years, the last 4 have been the most incredible. I have finally been able to completely eliminate windows from my life.
No drivers? Slower? Incompatible what? You gotta be just dumb to fail like that. Nowadays it’s just install, update, open steam and play.
Skill issue fedora has been working fine for 2 years now
I (kind of) understand the other stuff, but how do you get an incompatible kernel?
How old is this meme?
There is one major detail you forgot to mention Linux is not Windows. Windows users will have to learn a new operating system if they want to switch to Linux. There is no way around it and it applies to Windows, macOS and Linux, these are all different operating systems if you want to use them efficiently you will have to learn how they work or you will have a very hard time adjusting your workflow.
What you described is mostly 2018-2017 Linux gaming experience with modern MP titles Valorant/Fortnite//LoL/Destiny 2/Apex/GTA Online that have intrusive kernel level DRM anticheats.
For single player games and supported multiplayer games Linux today it’s much easier.
After fiddling around with Windows 11 and installing a bunch of directx, all vcredist versions, a bunch of fixes from pcgamingwiki to make older 10-20 year old games work and they still crash at some point, due to whatever the heck Windows 11 is doing, just switching between GE Proton and Proton versions in Steam with a few tweaks from protondb on Linux seems like a walk in the park.
The GPU drivers problem you are referring to is an NVIDIA problem, because NVIDIA hates their gamer users everywhere and hates their Linux users even more for decades. So on Linux you only have proprietary user space NVIDIA driver blobs that can break after each kernel update and have poor Wayland support, especially on non RTX series GPU’s.
If you want to use Linux you are stuck with AMD Hardware, Steam Deck uses only AMD hardware, you can use NVIDIA, but it’s support on Linux is somewhat limited and you will have to do additional tinkering.
I found switching to Linux to be pretty freaking simple for me, but again I kinda only play single player games, and go on LTS kernels on a rolling distro.
Loved gaming on Linux until it came to 3rd party wireless VR support. I run an og oculus quest and want to play games like elite dangerous, bone works, flight sim, and assetto corsa and making that work on Linux was just way too much effort.
Pretty much the opposite experience for me, I run an AMD GPU so drivers are just a non issue for me and every single game I play is either gold or higher or just flat out native on Linux,.the only games that have anti cheat are also games I avoid due to the toxic playerbase
Bait used to be believable
Did this meme fall out of a time warp from 2012?
I’m going to commit a programmer sin and say, “works fine on my machine”
I just know windows works and that’s all I meed
Lot of people here acting all elite about their Linux PCs. Ive used both. Linux is technically more capable, but Windows is waaaay less likely to need you to spend an hour solving a problem when you just want to play Celeste. If you love Linux that’s great, but the cost of problem solving Linux is too high for a lot of legit PCMasterRacers who just want their stuff to work without having to Google problems and throw console commands they dont understand into the void hoping it’ll magically fix their stuff so they can send an email.
When Nvidia makes drivers for Linux and every single game works like they do in Windows, I’m switching. Until then you can keep whining about it PC Jehovah’s witnesses.