Is Linux a suitable platform for gaming?

Is Linux a suitable platform for gaming?

Other urls found in this thread:

store.steampowered.com/search/?os=linux
appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=4205
twitter.com/NSFWRedditImage

maybe if i could get the dingus virtualbox to run

no.

Linux is not good for anything.

Only pretentious hipsters that wants to feel special uses it.

Yeah like NASA, fuck those buffoons.

>Linux is not good for anything

not really. it's better than it was 4+ years ago but it is still lacking a lot of titles. it was pretty cool that some bigger titles like deus ex and civilization made their way to the platform though.

No, can't even install game and play it without much hassle.

Get back to coding

Well.. linux got a lot of great games with steam now and the situation is waaaaay better than it was a few years ago, but in general it's not worth it if you got a dual boot system. Performance on windows with most of the games will be ~20% better anyway.

It definitely works and there's still some big examples out there, like Shadow Warrior 2 and HITMAN; there's just not going to be as much as you're going to find on Windows. You also can't expect many modern games to be able to run through Wine either due to DRM, so any titles you can't buy for GNU/Linux itself is going to have to be from GOG.

If you do get into it, it's not really as bad as most people say. Most devs are nice and have it ready to go without having to chmod +x or have to run make in terminal. Your biggest issue is just going to have to deal with a smaller selection of games.That being said, I always enjoy playing Stalker on my distro of OpenSUSE during down time.

If you only use your PC for gaming and browsing, using Linux is pointless.

I'm really not too fond of this Microsoft monopoly.

It's free, though.

Then feel free to use Linux. Just keep in mind that its freedom comes at a cost of steeper learning curve and frequent troubleshooting.

Enjoy your botnet.

I would use Linux as well if it was as easy as windows to use, I don't have time or patience to learn some fancy codes just to do basic things, browser doesn't even have adobe flash which is major issue as some sites still don't use html5.

That picture says windows is a botnet, though.

Then go for it. If you're somewhat casual then you'll be fine. Linux got quite a few titles to keep everyone busy.
store.steampowered.com/search/?os=linux
Plus Linux knowledge is pretty useful if you're working/want to get a job in IT.
I was using Linux myself for a few years exclusively, while I was still in the school and uni. I would probably even use it now too, if it wasn't for the pro-audio software.

>Using adobe fucking flash
>In fucking 2017

No wonder Sup Forums is so fucking awful and cancerous

Does game compatibility vary between the major distro families or is it all the same?

I've used Wine on Ubuntu to play some games.

You won't be playing all the hottest new games out there.

What can you do when shitty sites still use it.

>Is Linux a suitable platform for gaming?

It is a suitable platform but not a developed one.
There are only so many good developers like Carmack (used to be) who realize what kind of deep shit we're in with Microsoft.

In the end, Linux being more up-to-date and without any virtual restrictions on CGI development is a better platform for vidya than Windows by a landslide.
However, its support is abysmal because not enough developers use it because said support is lacking. Catch 22 and all that.

It's perfect for emulating almost everything. PSP, 3DS, GC, PS2 and all the old consoles too.

I have dual boot with windows and I just never boot into it unless I need steam. And I buy so few steam games that it's almost never.

You almost never boot into windows or linux?

into windows

Who the fuck pays for Windows?

>Is Linux a suitable platform for gaming?
FreeBSD is better.

>no Adobe Photoshop for Linux, GAYMP is shit
>no After Effects for Linux
>No FL Studio or Ableton for Linux; LMMS exists, but it doesn't have the power as FL Studio
>freetard games with PS0 graphix
But, why the devil logo tho?

>But, why the devil logo tho?
FreeBSD has games.

not talking about games tho

Unix is full of daemons.

>Does game compatibility vary between the major distro families or is it all the same?
Had no problems with Gentoo. But Ubuntu seems to be a Steam compatibility standard nowadays.

>he doesn't browse /f/

Free as in freedom

yes

What kind of setup do you need for PS2 emulation? I have a laptop with Fedora on it that I'd love to try emulation on.

Linux is for when you want to do everything your own way (AUTISM) Something wrong? You fix it yourself. Created a new issue? You fix that yourself. Framarate subpar? You'll have to fix that yourself.

Everything is designed for Windows anyways. Just get that desu.

It's getting there. More games are getting Linux releases through Steam and Wine plays a lot of games pretty well.

>I'm a retard who can't do anything by himself

I think GIMP is fine for most. For media professionals sure, stick to windows or Mac. A decent DAW would be nice I agree though I've been meaning to check out Pure Data. Games are an afterthought for the majority of users.

Linux has it's own strengths going for it. It's filesystem, package management, development tools and personalisation are all great. Use whatever you need to.

If Microsoft goes completely off the deep end with it's fucking Windows Store bullshit, I imagine there's gonna be a lot of people that'll just revert back to an older version of Windows 7 or just use Ubuntu or something.

3000 games on steam

But using gpu passthough on qemu is the best

Lol

Is Sup Forums a suitable platform for trolling?

use google chrome

I don't think you need much.
PS controller drivers are built into the kernel so you can just use a dualshock 3. All you need is PCSX2 (the emulator), bios and game isos which you can download.

I don't know how up to date fedora is so if you run into performance problems you might need to build the emulator from git. The git version is 1.5.0

I used to emulate KH2 on my cheap old laptop and it ran fairly well.

Linux user here, it boils down to what games you're playing.

PC games fall into multiple categories:

1. Games with native Linux ports. These are in the minority, and usually means indie or unity games. Examples include simple stuff like KSP, Bastion, Infinifactory, Firewatch, SOMA or DotA 2.

2. Games that run reasonably well under WINE. These are also in the minority. WINE is basically suffering, and anybody who thinks WINE can replace Windows is joking. The odds of your game running well under WINE are exceptionally slim. Usually refers only to older games or simpler games. Only games from recent memory that I'd put into this category is Dishonored and Starcraft II.

3. Games that run piss-poorly under WINE. This includes most windows games, especially older stuff. You might be able to get them running, but expect performance issues, compatibility issues, glitches, and other difficulties. Expect to put a lot of time into setting up every single game. Sometimes, they work but can't be installed directly. Sometimes they only work with shittons of hacks and overrides. Sometimes they only work on some WINE versions. This includes most Windows-only games I play, for example LoL, HotS, WoW, Diablo III. If they have a Direct3D 9 version, they're likely in this category.

4. Games that don't run under WINE at all, and won't for quite some time. This includes most recent games, especially AAA titles - generally anything that uses Direct3D 11 or higher, anything with Denuvo, and so on will just flat out not work.

Also, as far as other platforms are concerned, most emulators run natively on Linux. Stuff like dolphin, epsxe, mupen64 etc. work just as well.

(cEMU is windows only, in case you were hoping to play BotW)

>browser doesn't even have adobe flash
This is simply false. Just install freshplayerplugin which will put pepper-flash into firefox.

I used the PlayOnLinux installer for LoL and it installed LoL on my Ubuntu system totally fine. Played it for a couple months while running into not many problems.
Though the problems I faced were kinda annoying, such as the victory/defeat animation making the game shit it's pants and tabbing out of borderless fullscreen mode basically made the computer unusable actually needing a restart.

LoL issues on my end:

1. The new client is completely broken (infinite hang when launching). Even installing it means you have to nuke the installation and start over, because there's no way to downgrade back to the old client without starting the new client. (Great design there riot)

2. The old client sort of “works” but it can't stay in one place. Trying to drag it will cause it to spuriously jump around your screen or disapper. The shop throws security errors constantly and only sometimes works. The client's performance is terrible and it will randomly lock up if you interact with it too much. Every time the game ends, how large the client window ends up as is basically random, and I have to force my window manager to resize so I can see the rest of the buttons again.

3. In-game actually works pretty well, but the game currently suffers from some sort of bug where the performance degrades over time as you use abilities. In the normal game it's only realy noticeable after 40 minutes or so, but in U.R.F. mode I have to restart the client every 8-10 minutes because it just becomes uplayable choppy - dropping from 100+fps to more like 5 fps.

This wasn't always the case, it started some recent patch ago. Every other patch will also break it under WINE. Oh, and it breaks if you set it to windows 7, it has to be windows XP; and it needs a handful of overrides to even run at all.

PlayOnLinux does a good job of hiding all of this work from you, but the matter of fact is that it's still a poor experience and nowhere close to what the game would work like on Windows.

GIMP is comparatively worse than the competition for every use-case. I'd honestly say you have a better selection of DAWs on Linux than alternatives to Photoshop and After Effects/Premier/Vegas/etc. Pure Data isn't a DAW though, it's basically a free version of Max MSP and more in line with stuff like CSound and SuperCollider.

For sure. I got an old Windows 7 install disc from a guy and never really looked back to Ubuntu.
Though aside from playing games on it, Ubuntu is quite the comfy OS.

Is there any way to break Microsoft's OS monopoly?

Consider yourself lucky you can see things that way.

Personally, I've come to hate all Linux with a passion. Ubuntu in particular. Canonical is just absolutely clueless, it's more sad than funny. And the debian maintainers have no idea how to run a distro, which means ubuntu inherits incompetence from *two* sources. Last I checked they can't even decide which init system to bikeshed anymore so they just package three runscripts for every daemon. (systemd, sysvinit, upstart)

Anyway, I wouldn't mind installing Windows just for games but every time I try, I end up getting stuck with irreconcilable hardware issues. Plus, fuck dual bootnig.

If you use Linux for gaming or video editing, your excuse is justified. Still, wow, did you just come off as a dumb fuck for that post.

Just wait for them to do it on their own.

Yes, by not using Windows. That's literally the only way. Have fun.

Does it have Thief: The Dark Project 1.14? The vanilla release, none of this modern patch stuff.

If they actually make it that you can only download programs through the Windows Store. That will destroy them.

It'll happen around the time the desktop dies.

>Plus, fuck dual bootnig.
What's wrong with dual booting? I dual boot arch linux and windows 10 and haven't had any problems.

I need to get on Linux because otherwise Sup Forums doesn't see me as cool, but I don't think any of the stuff I like is on Linux :\

It's annoying to shut down everything you have running just to go play a game.

Use a hypervisor like Xen to start both operating systems independant of each other, and switch at runtime.

I have like 30 programs running at any given time; from open work to my browser to my chat sessions to voice chat to terminals. I also have my input device and environment customized to my preference (I use an autistic split keyboard with custmo layout).

If I dual boot, I lose all of that. I basically feel trapped inside a box until I'm back on linux, unable to do anything other than play the game. It's just annoying.

If I had the money for it, I would probably upgrade to a machine with VT-d and buy a second GPU for VGA passthrough, then game inside KVM+qemu.

Unfortunately, I'm just a student, so the one workstation has to satisfy my needs.

This one?
appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=4205

Seems like it will run under WINE.

>Using flash
>Somehow worse than using a botnet browser

it would be
if people actually wrote their games to be crossplatform

That sweet DirectX though

TFix is needed according to most of the people, nothing states vanilla itself works fine. I am what you might call a game historian, I like to play games in their unpatched format, so this bugs me.

People are used to the standard and you would be amazed at how infuriating it is to convince somebody to use a new UI. That's just UI alone. Most people also don't appreciate workspaces.

Cinnamon is pretty much the same as Windows though.

Most people don't bother cause they know how much of a minuscule base of users actually use Linux.

Is the original game 16-bit? If so, you're probably need older hardware - linux won't help you.

Unless it's old enough to run in dosbox, but I don't think it is?

Why should I bother linux is hacked by the CIA too
not so free like retards like to say here

It really isn't. Cinnamon is a massive piece of shit.

I know because my mother uses it[/spoiler.

No, no it isn't old enough to be on DOS. It isn't 16-bit either, it is a 32-bit app. It just uses DirectDraw significantly. It works perfectly fine in Windows 7 and 8.1, even the oldest vanilla version, but I am unsure how well it handles in Linux.

Didn't mean to lump PD in with DAWs, more like music production in general.

Linux gaming is like anal
If you do it right and take you're time it'll work
If you've no idea what you're doing, you're in for a mess

Will Vulkan be our savior?

It will probably increase cross-platform adoption, but I don't think it will move the mainstream AAA market over to Linux.

Microsoft still has lots of cash.