Help me change my windows gaming pc to Linux
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Mentioned elsewhere in the thread I think but not in a direct reply so making sure you see it, Lutris has the game specific scripts but also ones to set up environments for Origin/EA App. I've used those before with Sims 4 with both several expansion packs and some custom content.
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Awesome. I'll give it a go with lutris
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+1 for Bazzite. Atomic distro + NVDI drivers included
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Not helpful, but oops, I had accidentally disliked this post
I removed the dislike:)
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I agree. If you're a noob, and want the smoothest path, then Bazzite is the way.
I however, started on Ubuntu originally and you will have to learn the apt repos and install all this on your own. I'm now on Arch which makes you learn more the inner workings of Linux.
So if you want to progress, be sure to consider all the other distros out there too.
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I actually don't like this advice for this particular use case. The live session is gonna be sluggish because of the USB bottleneck which will make it look like the games run a lot worse than they would with a proper install.
Especially since this person also is already Linux proficient, I would say just jump into a dual boot setup or wipe the windows partition momentarily. Sure, it's gonna take a little longer and it's a bit tedious to have to reinstall windows if you change your mind but I'd prefer a bit tedium over a poor benchmark
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if you are comfortable enough with cli and Linux you should try arch for the desktop, it'll be probably easier in the long run because games are fussy and you can refer to the wiki and use the AUR
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I specifically said this advice because dual booting windows with Linux is a terrible idea.
Although you are right, if you USB read/write is slow it will be a sluggish experience.
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Long term, I agree. To test for 3 hours, and then decide which partition to nuke and which to keep? For this particular use case I'd prefer it
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Bazzite comes with Distrobox pre-installed, so you can literally try every other distro with it lol
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I've found CachyOS to be fairly uncomplicated and it's gaming tweaks make most things work out of the box through Lutris. I'd probably avoid the standard Arch install for a newbie
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cachyos is easiest way to arch, I found the install to be easier than bazzite, its all graphical, very straightforward, just works
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they just said they're proficient with linux in their post, did you read it?
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Right, but I would say the same thing and for a gaming machine, I would much prefer something that did the Arch install for me and worked for most games out of the box.
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I've played all sims games and all work on linux with wine. Sims 1 is the hardest to get to work because you need a CD crack to get it to run. Sims 2 and newer works great in my experience. I'd recommend using Bottles to install Sims 2. You can install it from CD and play it like normal. Need some tweaks to get widescreen though (but you have that issue on windows as well).
Sims 3 I've played in bottles through the EA app (I own a digital copy there). Worked out of the box (bottles has a way to install the ea store app easily). Sims 4 I've played on steam (using proton).
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Boots right into Steam.
I guess it can... I have been running Bazzite on my main laptop (including gaming) for like 6 months now, and it does not boot right into Steam, it boots to my KDE desktop.
I love it by the way, it's been a great experience.
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Also note that, just because Steam itself says a game is unsupported, does not necessarily mean that's true. Always check ProtonDB. There have been several occasions where "unsupported" games have worked just fine for me (sometimes with minimal tinkering, sometimes none).
Proton is awesome.
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idk gaming on arch works ootb on the 4 computers I've tried on, I've had no issues with it so far except when I tried to try some really experimental things with my gpu drivers. Every game I've tried works fine, and things like Steam and Lutris work just as well as on other distros.
also the archinstall TUI script comes with the installer and does the installation for you.
I'm honestly kinda tired of people making out arch as difficult/brittle without having tried it properly, it probably comes from the community latching onto the overused joke of "i use arch btw", and so wanting to view arch as inferior in some way because they don't want to be associated with the imaginary stereotypical arch user that doesn't actually exist.
It's probably also compounded by beginner arch users wanting to seem superior and above the others, so they present arch as something only them with their superior intellect could ever handle.
arch just works in my experience.
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Well you can choose either one when you select the image from their site.
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Ah ok, guess I forgot about that
