Man if only Linux was open source and manufacturers could easily create drivers for it at any time...

@Mossheart @cm0002

If the pain is not enough to replace a headphone with a new one , you most likely aren't ready to change for linux right now. There will be more you need to learn, more which feels different and more which won't work first try or even requiere you to rethink or replace things.

Not sure. Usually having BlueZ(Linux bluetooth audio stack) and glue in audio server or bluez-alsa should be enough.

If you want a non immutable distro, I switched to Garuda after Bazzite and it has been great for gaming.

Well, at least you got that far. Imagine if you tried migrating to MacOS.

On the other hand, one of the major gpu manufacturer's still has terrible driver support.

Major PC GPU manufacturers and their drivers:

Major phone GPU developers and their drivers:

But it's not like Windows is necessarily better! I've spent far longer trying to get some games to work on there than I do on Linux. I've spent more time on random driver issues in Windows than I do on Linux. I'm quite technical, and Windows has been far more frustrating in the bad cases - especially when talking about older games.

When it gets to a point where users can run literally any game out of the box without any additional hassle, then it will be the best gaming system. Until then, this is a gross exaggeration at best.

No, that's ridiculous. It will be the best gaming system when it can run more games out of the box without any additional hassle than Windows can. I'm not sure we've reached that point, but we're damn close - since I switched to Linux full-time, there's been a handful of games that I've had trouble getting to work, but all of them were niche (or modded) games. All the big titles have worked flawlessly, and better than on Windows (since all the additional crap like launchers, background services etc. are contained to when the game is running).

On my rog ally X no man's sky runs far better on bazzite than windows. On windows, it's unplayable

It's quite easy. Just don't buy NVIDIA...Consoles aren't using NVIDIA either and with the tariffs they make even less sense

My experience with Linux is that a lot of games tend to run better than windows these days

Not everyone wants to play AAA stuff

If you exclusively play bootysoft games then thats where your problem lies your problem

Ubisoft isn't ready for the masses yet. Linux works just fine

Steam is supposed to handle installing the Ubisoft launcher during the first-time setup, it sounds like for whatever reason it failed to do that. It's very likely that verifying the game files would've fixed the issue easily, as it re-runs the first time setup. If that didn't work, deleting the compatibility files would probably have been the next step. I'd be very surprised if one of these didn't fix it.

The rest of the troubleshooting steps you took until the GPU stuff were unnecessary, as they were basically Windows troubleshooting steps, not Linux ones. It's completely expected to have to relearn how to troubleshoot stuff on a different OS and I'd really recommend asking in a Linux gaming community when you run into issues like that, until you've gotten the troubleshooting steps down.

Install Ubi launcher using method 'add installer as game, set compatibility layer, install and change executable for application executable' ... Install Lutris and install Ubi launcher through that

Wine/Proton games are run in their own individual "prefixes", which are essentially individual Windows instances. Both of these steps just installed Ubisoft launcher in a different instance. This would be a fine fix on Windows, but this is a different OS. The correct fix isn't necessarily harder either, just different.

Install Protontricks through Flatpack instead of system package, as the Flatpack version is slightly newer. Accept that this will result in a much larger installation due to not using system-provided libraries.

"much larger" is relative, software is pretty small in general, especially compared to any modern games. It's really not much space, and the flatpak runtimes will be reused for other flatpaks you install.

As much as I want to like it, this experience makes me feel that Linux is not fully ready for the masses yet.

I don't even entirely disagree, but also don't think the issues you faced completely demonstrate that. The Ubisoft installation issue was most likely a Steam client bug. First-time installations failing is 100% something that has happened on Windows, that's why verifying game files is often the first recommended step when troubleshooting a game. Most distros that get recommended now have features to easily install Nvidia drivers. My personal recommendation for gaming, Bazzite, has an Nvidia ISO, which would've had them set up from the beginning.

Do you mind sharing what distro you were using? It sounds like whatever it is has bad instructions for setting up Nvidia drivers, I'd like to avoid recommending it.

Edit: Just read this back and wanted to add that I wasn't trying to be rude or condescending at any point, or blaming you for the issues. I don't think gaming on Linux is difficult, but I think people do need to do a better job preparing new users when they recommend it. It isn't, and never will or even should be, the exact same as Windows. You have to learn the differences to be able to troubleshoot effectively, which just takes some time. Nobody knows how to troubleshoot correctly the first time they use Windows either.

Huh... I just installed and played Anno 1800 on my Bazzite PC a month or two ago with no issue whatsoever. Played great.

lmao I thought that i was the only sisyphus here

I'm not a techy, or a sys admin, or anything.

I never wanted ot think about my OS. I just want to click things and go.

Linux did have headaches when I switched. Some from my lack of knowledge, some from shit in linux just being fuckywucky. but that was many years ago.

I wouldnt say I'm any smarter today, than i was back then.. but I will say Linux is so much better today than it was back then. Its reached the "it just works" stage, even for gaming, in everything I've tried with it. I am back to where I was on windows all those years ago, where I dont even think about my OS. I just click things and go.

I'm not so foolish to say its all sunshine and lollipops, especially with gaming, I'm sure there will always be a problem that crops up that needs a tweak/patch/config change to fix it.. but honestly? Windows had that shit too. which is why I'd say, from a usability aspect, Linux is pretty much at parity with windows at this point.

And thats for gaming and shit.

if you are just a regular PC user where entertainment/email/bills/etc are all done in the webbrowser? Fuck..Linux has been good and ready for that for over a decade. My grandparents PC has run linux for over 15 years now, without nary an issue.

Thank you for being the sane one.

I've recently stumbled upon a lot of people like whoever wrote the article, rampaging all over the place, going "Linux is more user-friendly than Windows", which is just an insane thing to say.

Linux is great, I love my Garuda to bits. But games are still optimised for Windows, we still need to use compatibility layers to get them running, and even though it's gotten MUCH easier these days, there's still a lot of titles that require tweaking/hacking. And some just refuse to run, period.

And then you have all the hardware compatibility issues that come with manufacturers just not supporting stuff. I can't turn my GPU's RGB off without Windows. I had to distro-hop to get the GPU drivers working correctly (it might be a "skill issue", but that just proves the point, I think). Even titles that are marked as Gold on ProtonDB sometimes crash or refuse to run randomly.

Some anticheat work perfectly fine in some games

I believe it’s largely to do with devs that want to limit themselves to a sole demographic