News I've been gaming on Windows for over 30 years, but now I'm giving Linux a shot

[rambo919]

Yeah the AI are perpetuating the old myth that Linux is still entirely terminal based in use like its DOS.

Its too bad the AIs didn't offer up more modern GUI-based answers since just about everything can be done with a point and click anymore.

Terminal solutions are not bad a lot of times.... the problem is when the solutions are outdated

 

[herrwizo]

It is a good thing that GPT nowadays can solve incredible amounts of beginner questions and configurations/setups regarding Linux, if anything this can certainly make lives of new Linux users a whole lot easier. In fact, I know several people who made a switch last year and virtually any question they had was effectively solved by GPT

 

[das_stig]

This is fine and good getting the games to work, but what about something which I consider important cross working compatibility, We may still have to use Windows somewhere and as far as I am aware, no OneDrive client for Linux, yes there are others that work in Win/Linux but not as seamless as OneDrive and I have a lot stored in OD at a cheap price.

 

[herrwizo]

No official onedrive clients, no, but still plenty of options, some of which are built-in:

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/discussions/microsoft-365/onedrive-on-linux/1318644

 

[MJS WARLORD]

I have been a geek over 20 years and once decided to have a try at linux and thank god it was a spare pc.
I had no idea what i was doing when i started installing all the different software items. All can remember is that their were a lot of ... do you want to do this ... yes or no. I got different things running ok but then decided it was not for me. I dont know if i got duel boot options wrong , all i can remember is i had removed all linux software but i could not get back into windows .... i got a message to say operating system not found. So i now had a pc that was good for nothing , worse still because i could not get to windows i could not do a clean install.

So i guess the moral to the story is ...... do your research

 

[ezst036]

Terminal solutions are not bad a lot of times.... the problem is when the solutions are outdated

Sure, terminal solutions work.

It is just that they are unwanted.

Real people use their mouse and look for the box to click on - this is why modern Linux distros, Macs and Windows are more popular. We all left the 1990s because using a prompt is simply unnatural.

 

[salgado18]

I gave Lutris a quick go, and it's awesome. Syndicate (90's DOS game) and Shantae and the Pirate's Curse (nore recent Windows game) ran as flawlessly as clicking the Play button. And it installed the GoG game using the GoG installer! Didn't even feel like Linux, but in Linux. To me, Windows is dead.

 

[TerryLaze]

I gave Lutris a quick go, and it's awesome. Syndicate (90's DOS game) and Shantae and the Pirate's Curse (nore recent Windows game) ran as flawlessly as clicking the Play button. And it installed the GoG game using the GoG installer! Didn't even feel like Linux, but in Linux. To me, Windows is dead.

Just a quick info, lutris uses up about 600Mb per old game for windows files, for newer games it's closer to a Gb.
For each game, so make sure you do have a lot of space or don't just install everything at once.

(Yeah I know storage is cheap, still not everybody is going to format their 16Tb windows drive to try linux)

 

[Notton]

It's a shame the writer couldn't get Moonlight working on bazzite.
Any idea what is causing it?

 

[herrwizo]

Port 47984 first needs to be checked for connectivity from Bazzite using netcat, just in case firewall blocks it.

nc -vz <Sunshine_IP> 47984

Could be many other things, Moonlight relies on mDNS to discover Sunshine automatically, and his Bazzite might not have Avahi or required system services enabled for mDNS resolution:

sudo rpm-ostree install avahi
sudo systemctl enable --now avahi-daemon

Also, flatpak apps are a whole different beasts when it comes to networking. It might not have permission to access the network. This is because Flatpak intentionally sandboxes apps for security. Moonlight needs explicit permission to talk to devices on LAN, which isn’t always granted by default unless the Flatpak was configured correctly by the maintainer from the very start. This will allow such permissions:

flatpak override com.moonlight_stream.Moonlight --socket=network --socket=network-status

If I had to bet, I would bet on the last item here,

 

[rambo919]

Sure, terminal solutions work.

It is just that they are unwanted.

Real people use their mouse and look for the box to click on - this is why modern Linux distros, Macs and Windows are more popular. We all left the 1990s because using a prompt is simply unnatural.

Actually.... on windows a lot of solutions are still terminal based too because they work better than the stupid troubleshooters that get worse every few years.

 

[rambo919]

No official onedrive clients, no, but still plenty of options, some of which are built-in:

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/discussions/microsoft-365/onedrive-on-linux/1318644

KDE has nextcloud support built in.... you don't need onedrive, googledrive or dropbox for everything it's just commonly used.

 

[rambo919]

So i guess the moral to the story is ...... do your research

It seems like you made the age old mistake of dualbooting from a single physical storage drive.... always do it where you are installing each family of OS on different drives so their boot managers don't interfere with one another.

 

[MJS WARLORD]

It seems like you made the age old mistake of dualbooting from a single physical storage drive.... always do it where you are installing each family of OS on different drives so their boot managers don't interfere with one another.

And thats exactly what i did

 

[dalauder]

Slightly off topic, but what's funny is that I only realized last year that UEFI basically is the new DOS! I had a system where I was forced to do some things in the UEFI shell, and when I started looking into it, I came to see that it's really very DOS-like.

You can write your own programs for UEFI, as well. It does seem like a somewhat better-featured version of DOS, where you get basic services like hardware abstraction and a network stack.

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https://www.tomshardware.com/softwa...at-runs-entirely-inside-the-motherboards-uefi​

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If I needed to use a PC for something where I had virtually exclusive control over the CPU (e.g. some sort of simple, realtime control), I might be tempted to explore running it in UEFI.

Good to know. Thanks.

 

[hakun4matata]

Windows folks are finally finding out that there is a world other than Windows lmao

Jokes aside, we need to thank Steam for the rise of gaming on Linux, and consequently, folks finding out their current hardware runs better with Linux than Windows, that isn't any surprised for veterans.

The main issue is kernel anti-cheat, that is wrong in so many levels anyway. Steam is on our side tho bringing cheating compatible with Linux.
The issue as usual are big studios with games like BF6, COD. That will continue until Microsoft bans apps from touching Windows kernel, it's the only way to force then to use alternatives.

Bazzite is everywhere now but I'm not a big fan of blackbox solutions.

I've a humble Lenovo Legion 5 Pro gaming laptop with a Ryzen7, RTX3050Ti 4GB, 32GB, 2x NVMe Gen, it's beautiful.
My OS of choice is Mint Cinnamon, it's lightweight, stable, dramas free compared with Ubuntu.
I'm building an 100% AMD PC to live connected into my TV.

My Xbox Elite 2 controller works wonderfully via Bluetooth.

Long live to Linux gaming lol