Hooray, I can finally play it. Had it on my wish-list for years, when I finally bought it I found out that neither the native Linux or the Windows+Proton version was working.
I’ve just switched over to linux last week from Windows and i’m hooked. But now I find i’m just looking at all the various distros trying to figure out which one would be best for me. Right now I’m on Mint/cinnamon and it’s great. but I’ve had my eye on CachyOS, Nobara, and Bazzite.
I wanted to try out Bazzite via live usb but it doesn’t have that option. So I’m just curious what people who use it think of it.
Edit: decided to go with CachyOS. bit harder to set up and get going then Mint but I managed to pull it off and actually prefer it. super fast too.
I would say it feels closest to steam os. It’s immutable. So make sure you understand what that is. I do like the built in wallpaper engine support. Had a bit of trouble with multi disk support. But got there after a bit of fstab tweaking.
As far as I understand it you're more or less tied to flatpacks for any sort of software installation, unless you want to use a virtual machine for every other programm, which is extremely limiting. You can't modify the root system either, which might be negligible for most people but being so limited for software is too much of a limitation for me.
Especially as a new linux convert I would say wait a bit before switching to an immutable distro. They have their advantages but the concept probably feels pretty alien for most windows users, where you can install whatever and it just works. I’ve been a long time Nobara user and it’s pretty good, especially considering it’s basically just one guy maintaining it. But it does break on updates from time to time. My personal recommendation after getting used to linux would be opensuse tumbleweed. It’s constantly updated but never breaks. You generally don’t need a gaming centric distro, especially if you’re rocking an AMD card.
Depend on the flow, when the gaming industry row against it (ie: Epic store exclusivity to exclude Linux’s support by indie develeopers, Anti-cheat that bar Linux support away) Linux adoption stay around 1% while sustaining the growth of PC gaming (it mean Linux keep growth together anyway).
Now, with SteamDeck we have a situation where the “row against” is still there, albeit much lower because publisher AAA aren’t too sure they want to be kept out SteamDeck’s business.
We still see how much fast Linux adoption will growth when the industry goes “neutral” (aka: do not go against with Anticheat)… and even when, someday maybe, they will just “support”.
So far now, Linux is going great if you consider AAA publisher did fail to sink it down (the only single big entity that openly support (not even exclusively) is Valve).
When you go against the flow you look slow: but the energy behind you is double than anybody else.
One thing that might really help would be Valve releasing an official version of SteamOS to the public. It would hopefully get us more handhelds running SteamOS natively and people switching their PCs, particularly if they can release it before the Win10 EOL date.
Sure, projects like Bazzite exist, but I don’t think those have enough reach beyond the people already running some form of Linux.
I played it because of all the glowing recommendations but wasn’t all that impressed. It’s fine, but not even the best boomer shooter I’ve played this year. It’s technically very impressive what they were able to do with the GZDoom engine, but the gameplay and level design doesn’t support it.
Nexus is the goat. I mean I hate their pay-to-skip model, which basically means if you want to install a collection of say 600 mods… because yes, then you’re stuck pressing a button over and over, unless… You pay for a monthly subscription, that you don’t need to renew.
Basically you’re paying for a one time convenience. I mean I understand, it’s not that easy to demand pay for someone else’s work, but server space and network traffic costs money. So, yeah…
Pay for the 1 month, or click a lot. At least you got options.
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