Thinking of switching my gaming desktop to linux. Should I?

[a_union_of_kobolds@lemmy.world]

Any distro will do tbh. If youre missing something you just install it.

But since youre used to Fedora may as well stay on that tree. You can always play around with other Desktop Environments like Plasma if you want, its what I've been doing once I get an install going.

[gnugit@aussie.zone]

Is heroic overtaking lutris now?

[princessnorah@lemmy.blahaj.zone]

Happy cake day!

[princessnorah@lemmy.blahaj.zone]

There's a ujust script to set up virtualisation on Bazzite. ujust setup-virtualization in the terminal should get you going. Alongside the background stuff it sets up, it installs a GUI virtual machine manager.

[princessnorah@lemmy.blahaj.zone]

I'd give WINE a go before messing with a VM, I know some versions of photoshop do actually work: https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=41345

You can get cracked versions of the CC 2023 version, but if you wanna use your current version then yeah, just give it a go. Worst case you waste 30 minutes and have to install a VM anyway.

[psychosadistic@l.iri.cx]

I am still very happy with CachyOS. That'd be my recommendation.
Nobara / Bazzite are good options, too, but I never tested them.

[bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de]

For me it is. I've been using Lutris for years, but they're just stagnating. The design is all over the place, they still don't have a unified library, their native integrations break so often that I have to add my games manually anyways. And I cannot fathom why they don't adopt the same library integrations for GOG, Amazon and especially Epic as Heroic. They are much faster and have much less hassle.

At the same time Heroic has been adding the same tools I originally missed from Lutris. Like the Wine handling and using external wrappers like Mangohud or Gamemode or your own wrappers and variables.

Lutris' installation scripts are still often nice for figuring out a game's dependencies. I just wish they were in a git repo where people could add comments because some of the scripts are needlessly complicated.

If someone made an itch.io command line client that Heroic could tap into it would have most of the things I could wish for.

[malix@sopuli.xyz]

make sure first that it isn't issue with specific games, some may require some proton flags to be set for them to behave properly. Or just newer/older proton/wine.

in general worth a try to switch the compatibility thingy (technical term),

steam, in game's properties:

but similar option is in lutris/heroic too.

[tormeh@discuss.tchncs.de]

It's not all the same. A key thing you want is to get the latest graphics drivers (mesa or proprietary) as soon as possible after release. Same day or at least week. For that you probably want a rolling release like Tumbleweed, or something based on Arch, like CachyOS. I'm running Pop OS, and I still don't have the drivers needed for Doom: The Dark Ages. Seems to take like a month or so for Pop OS to update Mesa. Seriously considering trying CachyOS for this reason.

[malix@sopuli.xyz]

heroic overall seems to work better for installing games from gog, but the odd issue I have is that I seem to be always online on gog's service when I'm playing games. Do you happen to know if there's any way to set myself invisible? I don't want everyone to know how often or late I play games

I guess technically signing out of the storefront would do that, but then I'd have to re-login to install/update games, eh

edit: oh derr, it dawned on me that it might be the Cyberpunk launcher which I had to login as well, which shows me online

[neidu3@sh.itjust.works]

I'm a simple man who use Mint on my gaming PC. No issues. Everything worked out of the box.

[cyborganism@piefed.ca]

Just use Ubuntu/Kubuntu/Mint if you want a hassle free, secure, and stable Linux distro that supports everything and works out of the box.

Don't use those gaming centric distros like Bazzite. It's not worth it. Don't use Arch or other bleeding edge distros unless you want to keep troubleshooting your system because of problems or vulnerabilities.

Take it from me. I've been using Linux since 2001 and Ubuntu based distros have always been the best choice for a secure stable OS.

[wizard_pope@lemmy.world]

I mean I already know how to setup one I have 3 VM on my laptop for different OS

[wizard_pope@lemmy.world]

I tried GIMP but just cannot get used to it. Heard there are some ways to make the tools and shortcuts behave like PS though just never tried it.

[goatinspace@feddit.org]

Manjaro KDE would be easier for a beginner.
Manjaro XFCE if you want to play RTX games and ok with tinkering WM.

[bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de]

Luckily you can just skip the Cyberpunk launcher. Just configure Heroic to use the normal exe. That's how I play the Steam version so that I can play when my son is playing on his PC as well.

[charade_you_are@sh.itjust.works]

I saw "gaming focused distro" and immediately jumped into it without any research but that's just the way I do things. Sometimes I work my way backwards and develop at least some understanding. I believe it's commonly referred to as a learning disorder. Don't regret it though.

[charade_you_are@sh.itjust.works]

It's all a blur now but I know I did something with ujust. I'll try it again to make sure, thank you for the info.

[princessnorah@lemmy.blahaj.zone]

Yeah that's fair, the only reason I suggested WINE still is VMs are a fair resource hog but whatever works for you friend

[malix@sopuli.xyz]

Yea I have done that, but logging into the launcher (and it apparently keeps it logged in as well) unlocks in-game items - they are entirely non-essential, but... you know, hoarding.

I haven't tested yet if that's even the thing which is showing me in-game to my friends. I was kinda amazed to hear they saw me playing cyberpunk to the early morning hours