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literally just learned of it through some random reddit comment (the comment was about how it really fixes issues with AMD gpu drivers).

good? trustworthy? pros and cons? good for first linux os?

i've been lazy and have been riding out my windows 10 extension but this actually seems really easy with clear instructions to set up a dual boot and slowly hand over more of my hdd space to it. also seems pretty secure, open source, etc but i just want to make sure it's not sus

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[–] P1d40n3@hexbear.net 0 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I tried Bazzite, but my online games (overwatch, sf4 and umvc3) were all laggy as hell. When I tried solo player games (just cause 4 and Romeo is a dead man) they would either crash or not display cutscenes.

It's a great idea, but the tech isn't ready.

[–] TheModerateTankie@hexbear.net 1 points 1 day ago

I think your graphic card or something just might not be well supported in linux. Can't say since I don't know your computer, but older nvidia cards are the most problematic because nvdia doesn't open source the driver and dropped support for older cards.

I doubt you'll give it another try since windows works well enough for you, which is fair enough. Some systems just don't play well with linux. But for anyone else having these problems:

The cutscene problem can be fixed by using proton-ge. It is a problem with the normal proton not being allowed to support some video codecs.

protondb has suggested settings for most games. Or you can just search for "steam deck" + whatever game you want to run to check for any compatability problems.

[–] Inui@hexbear.net 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Are you on a different distro now in which that doesn't happen? Or did it happen on every Linux install? I'm not saying you did anything 'wrong', but "the tech isn't ready" doesn't square with me since I've been running Bazzite for a few years now (after multiple other distros), first on Nvidia then on AMD, with minimal issues.

[–] P1d40n3@hexbear.net 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I tried bazzite, ubuntu and linux mint with the same problems for all those distress. I just the bullet and reinstalled windows. Gotta have my treats...

[–] pucker4676@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 days ago

Proton will often perform slightly worse than Windows, but at times can perform better. This isn't surprising as you're adding a layer of complexity.

The tech is absolutely there. Some devs have been lazy, and refuse to support Linux, but that's nothing new.

https://windowsforum.com/threads/can-linux-outperform-windows-for-handheld-gaming-bazzite-and-proton-benchmarks.397767/

https://youtu.be/D45AknAsIPw