I’ve been debating making the switch for a long time, but after spending like a week researching Proton, Lutris etc. on Linux, I decided to try it out and nuked my entire Windows 11 drive. :)
So far, every game I threw at it works perfectly fine, including Elden Ring & Cyberpunk.
I had to spend a little time troubleshooting some small issues but it’s part of the fun!
Specs are in the neofetch, my compositor / WM is Wayfire (Wayland) :)
Steam has been working perfectly for me (except Anti-Cheat stuff) Some other titles (especially League of Legends) still don’t work reliable for me. (If you know League, it can be a little … frustrating)
Lutris install + installing wine-lol-bin from AUR as runner has been working near flawlessly for me. Only the event page sometimes bug out, but I never participating one so it doesnt bother me.
Okay thanks, I will try it
I don’t play it by my boyfriend does. There’s a whole community over at /c/leagueoflinux that might be able to help!
I wish, but all I play right now is Diablo IV and COD:MW2 (2023 version) and neither works on Linux. Maybe in the 2030s.
Diablo IV definitely works in Linux. I played Sorc all the way to level 75 just fine. You can install Battle.net via Lutris, Bottles, or even directly via Proton Experimental in Steam and then install Diablo IV from there.
Oh, interesting! How is performance compared to running on Windows?
It seems to work great at least in my experience on Manjaro. Lutris is also great at what it does and makes the setup relatively easy.
Hmm, what issues did you have with D4 on Linux? That’s been my preferred way of playing it since the beta.
Not sure about MW2 unfortunately though.
The last time I bothered to try was a few years ago. I didn’t realize it was possible to install Battle.net now. I’ll have to take another look at it on my laptop with Manjaro installed.
Ah fair enough! If you do end up giving it a try, my preferred method is via Bottles - but I’ve heard other people recommend Lutris as well.
I have an Nvidia 2080 and for me the game plays just as well in Linux as it does Windows. From what I’m aware, most of the Blizzard games play on Linux - I’ve personally played D3, D4, and OW/OW2 (which is coming to Steam to make it even easier) on Linux without problem.
C’mon you’ve ditched windows but your wallpaper is full of them… /s
Nuking your windows drive and not dual booting is a very brave decision. Not having another OS (where you know the way) waving at you makes the Linux learning experience much more rewarding.
Isn’t it a lot of effort to set up the games, though?
It depends and I’m not going to sugarcoat it.
You can look up the ProtonDB pages for the games you plan to play, and see how they fare. Some will work out of the box, some will require some tweaks, some will require MAJOR tweaks (I’ve yet to encounter any of those), and some will just flat out not run.
So far, the most “configuration” I’ve had to make was changing the Proton version used by same games. Example: Cult of the Lamb has major issues on the latest Experimental build of Proton, but on 7.0-6, it runs perfectly.
It depends if you’re ready to spend a bit of time on getting bigger games working.
As an addition to what he said. Some game will not work no matter what you do mainly because of anti-cheats. Some examples would be R6S, Destiny 2, any recent COD game, the site AreWeAntiCheatYet shows that list.
Welcome to the Linux community, friend!
Thank you! It’s cozy here :)
Are you on Nvidia and if so how do you make it not suck? I feel like preformance has gotten worse not better over the years. The exact same games with the same settings preform much worse for me on Linux.
No unfortunately I’m not buying a Radeon I need the Nvidia for work.
Nope I’m full AMD. I’m not entirely sure how NVIDIA works on Linux. I just know it doesn’t work well with Wayland. And fair enough for not buying AMD. Personally, I would do some research, try some things, but I’m really not familiar with NVIDIA card I’m afraid :(
Switched recently and using Nvidia. It’s a headache either way but I’ve had less issues with Wayland than x11.
Yeah, I’m told NVIDIA is not a very fun experience :(
My dude, read the neofetch
AMD ATI Radeon RX 5600 OEM/5600 XT
The what? Oh the tiny ass text in the image on my phone that I didn’t see.
Yeah, guys. Can someone please share their experience with Arch and Nvidia? I’m looking to switch for quite some time now, because Windows is just a bloated confusion of an OS, but I always hear that Nvidia drivers are a piece of garbage on Linux. How true is this and can you do something about it?
I went to Arch and haven’t looked back. It’s a great distro!
