Gaming on Linux

I'm about to make the switch to Linux.
Are there any games/emulators that just can't be played on Linux, or run very gimped?
What's better, running through Wine or just dual-booting Win7?
Also, what makes games and programs incompatible with Linux?

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If you have good hardware that supports virtualization and passthrough, create a QEMU machine with Windows. If you don't try lutris and Proton.

>move to linux so you can use windows but with increased overhead at the cost of additional hardware and a shitload of time troubleshooting
lol

proton is really good, the only real problems I had were anticheats (eac, battleye, etc.) won't let you play the game even if it runs. there might be problems with certain drm as well

Yes. Because fuck using it as your main OS. Virtualization is nice because you can just revert to a state before shit went to bed if you ever want to run sketchy software.

Basically all emulators that are available to Windows are available on Linux, with broadly similar performance (usually favorable to Linux, although that of course depends on the emulator in question and it's not going to be substantially different).

>Also, what makes games and programs incompatible with Linux?
Most typically, it's DRM and anticheat. If you look at protondb.com/ top 10 Steam games for example, PUBG Easy Anti-Cheat -> doesn't work, Rainbow Six has BattlEye anti-cheat -> doesn't work, Rust has EAC -> doesn't work for MP. That doesn't mean literally all games without DRM or anti-cheat work (or that it was inherently a no-go, since many DRM games also DO work), but nowadays that's the most common reason for Windows games not running with Wine/Proton even with tweaks (a tool called Lutris has installation scripts for various games, with configs that are known to work, so generally speaking you don't need to trouble yourself much with that). The kind of performance you can expect tends to be 80-90% of native Windows performance for DX11 games.

And that kinda answers the compatibility question regarding Windows games that don't have a native Linux version. Old games tend to work, sometimes better than in Windows 10 (let's say 90% of them work). New games tend to work supposing there's no anti-cheat or invasive DRM. It averages to something like 80% of overall Windows library being accessible.

>dual-booting Win7
>Win7

What's wrong with Win10?

>Are there any games/emulators that just can't be played on Linux, or run very gimped?

Yes, lots although Lutris and Steam Proton do an okay job you will suffer a lot of frustration.

I would dual-boot Win10.

Unless your time isn't worth anything, then go ahead and enjoy spending 50% of your time Googling for solutions to weird bugs and piping curl to sudo bash.

If you're too stupid to manage a windows install, why do you think you're capable of managing a linux distro?

I'm not too stupid to manage Windows. Windows just shits the bed out of nowhere at random, just last week I had to reset my network devices because for some reason it started preferring my Xbone controller adapter as network card, and didn't want to look at my ethernet cable that's plugged in until I replug it after each startup.

User error.

>what makes games and programs incompatible with Linux?
Anti-cheat usually. I miss being able to play Apex Legends. Generally everything else works just by clicking "install" in Lutris with the exception of brand new releases.

I wouldn't recommend switching to most people on this board. I just like to shitpost and don't actually play that many games.

>What's better, running through Wine or just dual-booting Win7?
If you're going to do it, don't half ass it. Single boot and force yourself learn the operating system for a few weeks or you'll just end up taking the path of least resistance with a dual boot.

Also use Ubuntu and disregard any other distro advice.

Works for me

Not user error. It worked fine for over a year.

Pop OS is way better for this than Ubuntu.

Contemporary mainstream distros require less setup than Windows does. I recently installed Windows 10 to play Bannerlord (turns out that was unncessary) and even sound didn't work until I installed drivers and restarted the computer! Conversely, nowadays even nVidia binary drivers aren't an issue for most distributions with them being available from software store/driver manager, if not being available as an option in the installer, and AMD hasn't been an issue for ages.

Pop OS is literally just a different spin of debian, like ubuntu. Only difference is that Pop has a smaller user base, meaning you have less support for issues.

>Contemporary mainstream distros require less setup than Windows does.
If you use your computer solely as a web browser/HTPC, sure. For gaming it's still terribly mediocre.

I moved to Linux almost three years ago and the only thing I had a problem with was Gothic 2 (access violation errors, fixed it setting up a wineprefix with winetricks directmusic) and SoF2 (fixed it with another exe). Everything should work out of the box once you set up wine and dxvk and if there's an issue look up the game on protondb or winehq for reports of how to get it running.

I know that it's debian, and no, it actually has a bigger userbase for people trying to run Steam games since it comes with all the latest drivers and packages for gaming purpose. There's a lot of extra things you need to do on Ubuntu if you want to use Linux for gaming, that you simply don't need to do on Pop OS.

Literally never happened neither to my 7 yo win 7 laptop nor 3 yo win 10 desktop.
People who shit on windows are just retards and switching to a less stable is will not fix the issue.

>it comes with all the latest drivers and packages for gaming purpose

Is clicking the box that says "Install non-free drivers" during installation too much for people to handle?

>based
I've watched people give a "tour of Pop OS" where they basically just show all the GNOME tweaks applied by Pop OS.

Pop OS is for retards who don't understand the difference between Linux distros. It's just customized Ubuntu.

Ok, faggot. The "works on my machine" excuse doesn't work. I'm not a retard since I've managed to fix all of this shit before, most of the issues I stumble into are shit that people like you won't even notice. I've been using Windows on different machines for more than 15 years now, some do better than others, the ones that do have issues every now and then are set up the exact same way if not similar. I don't run very special software on them that could ruin things, I keep my machines usually very stock.

>There are lots of extra things you need to do on Ubuntu if you want to use Linux for gaming.

Name them.

You can download and install Nvidia drivers from the official website.

Imagine being this technologically retarded and illiterate and THEN thinking linux will solve your problems

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Well it does fix the problem of the PC shitting the bed on its own. From this point onward it will be the users fault.

I'm a Linuxfag since 2006 but do NOT switch to it exclusively if you want to play video games. They work, but way worse in terms of performance. It's still a meme.

NEVER install drivers from the website on linux. Use the fucking package manager. Most Linux newbies tend to make this mistake and then get frustrated.

>I recently installed Windows 10 to play Bannerlord (turns out that was unncessary) and even sound didn't work until I installed drivers and restarted the computer!
>I had to install the driver of my audio card so it could work
Shocking.

>I was mildly inconvenienced after using Windows 10 for over a year.
>FUCK YOU, MICROSOFT

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Literally no explanation as to why I shouldn't.

I've had no issues with the latest drivers downloaded from Nvidia's site.

Don't bother with Linux if you're just using your PC for pleasure and don't need it for work. Every single distro is unpolished in some way. You said you were having some problems with Windows: you will have twice as many problems in other areas using a Linux distro. It's not comfy. Windows (and macOS) both have little niceties built in that you take for granted, which no open source tard could hope to replicate. If you really must, I'd say run it inside a fullscreen VM for a few days to see how you like it. Having a native bash shell rules but the rest of the experience is shit

t. programmer who uses linux every day for work