I installed Debian + KDE on my mom’s laptop. She hasn’t had a complaint since. How tech-savvy is she, you ask? I’m sitting with her right now, so out of politeness she put on headphones to watch her favorite soap opera. Mind you, the headphones weren’t plugged into the laptop. She was sitting there, headphones on her head, sound coming through the speakers, watching her soaps like this is how it’s meant to be done.

    • circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
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      7 months ago

      It’s fantastic. I’ve been 100% Linux for gaming for 2 years now.

      A favorite story of mine is the Elden Ring release. On Linux, the PC version didn’t have the microstutters it had on Windows, and it was entirely due to shader precaching on Steam/Proton. There are other times where performance is better on Linux also (and this is for Windows versions of games), not the least of which being lower overhead.

      Mind you, nvidia does still lead to some driver issues for some. AMD is kind of where you want to be for easy Linux gaming.

    • fidodo@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      7 months ago

      Should be as good as with the steam deck and that’s had tons of games available to it.

    • neidu2@feddit.nlEnglish
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      7 months ago

      Pretty well. Using it daily. There are 9nly a handful of titles that don’t work well with steam on linux, but I can live without them.

    • Moghul@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      7 months ago

      I’m doing it right now. Works fine if you’re playing on steam and there are non-steam options too.

    • jkozaka@lemm.eeEnglish
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      7 months ago

      Depends, if you want to play online, tough luck. Most anticheats refuse to work with Linux, the smaller games probably work fine, but if it’s somewhat mainstream (fortnite, valorant, cod, rainbow six, etc) it probably won’t work. ProtonDB has a great list.

    • BananaTrifleViolin@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      7 months ago

      Really well. I’ve been playing Cyberpunk 2077 in Linux on my PC without issue, and plenty of other games on it, my Steam Deck and now a living room mini PC.

      A combination of steam (and Proton), Wine and Heroic launcher (for GOG, Epic and toeht stores), plus tech like Vulkan, makes most PC gaming viable in Linux.

      There remain some games that don’t work but generally they get tweaked into working with a newer version of Proton. Windows-reliant anticheat software seems to be an issue though if you like competitive fps type games.