How Linux Changed My Gaming Experience...

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I now no longer have a Windows PC/Laptop since, Steam, Proton and Nobara have made everything so easy.

As a gamer and a Linux user for 15+ years , when I started my transition games were mostly unplayable and over time more & more games started playing nice. Today any game with anti-cheat that requires ring-0 access to my system it essential get blacklisted in my book and I never look at them again, they are essential malware. There is no reason for something with this much access on my system.

Linux changed my gaming addiction to programming addiction 🐧

just in time when a paid os openly declares itself as spyware, linux finally matures as gaming platform and personal computing platform.

If you value gaming in general, never support a la carte subscriptions like game pass.

For me the writing is on the wall, October 19th 2025. When windows 10 goes eol so does my use of windows.

Crazy how good Linux gaming has gotten since the last time I tried it. Removed Windows from my system a few days ago :)

Thanks to Linux I don't play League of Legends anymore. It even has a preventive effect.

Windows games were made for Windows. Windows games are not supposed to run on Linux. We made it work anyway. So yeah, hiccups are to be expected, but we made so many games just work. That's impressive work.

I started testing out Linux Mint in 2021. When Elden Ring was released, I gave it a try and found that it work! That convinced me to take the plunge. I built my new main desktop as a pure Linux machine with no dual boot. I am never going back to the spyware called Windows again.

I hold a similar opinion now. I used to hate that some games refused to make their games compatible with linux, especially due to anticheats. Nowadays, I just don't play them. The only situation in which I play these kinds of games is when a friend wants to play together. In that case I just boot up windows, which happens quite rarely nowadays. Ironically, 90% of the time I boot up windows is because of MS Office, not games.

Linux gaming has come a long way and turned out really good. I remember back in 2012 playing windows games was a literal pain the butt. The fact that now you can run steam games and install steam almost without difficulties depending on the distro gives you lots of hope. Also lots of games runs even better on Linux right now. I was honestly surprised by Fallout 4, Skyrim and Doom Eternal. Even newer games like Palworld or Monster Hunter Iceborn. They can't ignore the most important fact here, which is that u're still buying them legally on Linux.

Since a Level-0 anticheat is running in the background all the time, probably collecting data aswell and sending it to the company behind it, wouldn't it be a major privacy-invasion which should be possible to ban such software from people's PC's by (at least in Europe) strengthen the GDPR? I mean having a driver installed on my system without my consent, would be very creepy, if I had no idea that it's running all the time. 🤔

Steam Deck was my go-to way of become Linux gamer Anyone else that played PC games on Linux via Steam Deck?

Thanks for all your gaming on Linux updates! These are my favorites along with your videos on how to get stuff like Davinci Resolve and other annoying apps running well on Linux. I still dual boot for Destiny and other live service games because it's a way for my friends and I to still hang out and catch up with each other. One day I'm sure we'll find something else that's more Linux friendly, and I can finally stick with Linux full time.

The issue with using probability for anti cheat is that you will catch the players that are really good at your game and end up going pro. You never want to ban someone based on a probability

Been using linux at home since 2000. I did not play many many games. Then, at the end of 2021, proton got my attention, and I started playing. Your take on games using ring 0 'anti cheat' mirrors mine. Its just a matter of time till one the these companies are hacked and the hackers figure out how to use the 'anti cheat' as a back door.... With good instrumentation in games, along with a good stats package, it should be possible to find cheaters without all the garbage vendors like to throw at us.

The ONLY way I'd play a game with kernel level anti-cheat is to have a separate PC (or at least duel booted) that is ONLY used for those games and absolutely nothing personal.. I'm lucky though, that I don't tend to play online competitive games that are the targets for anti-cheat and am very impressed with how far Linux gaming has come in the last few years. I'm with you in that before I buy a game, I make sure it works on Linux and support games that don't try to purposely not work on Linux. I have a decent sized game catalog, so I don't need to play all the new stuff. :)

I can relate but since I do this basically since the Windows 7 days, I feel like I actually missed on quite a bunch of games that I would have enjoyed on PC normally. Oh well... there's still my second drive with Windows on it for those VR games and other than that, I mostly play Mario Kart and Splatoon online anyway.