This meme would be so relatable if I had any friends.

During last gamenight with the friends we decided to play halo infinite. We all had a good laugh that the two on windows were the only ones crashing

Honestly Steam and Proton have solved like 90% or more of this issue, i was in this spot in the past for a long, long time, but Steam has made this work almost seamlessly for a great number of games

And then i got the Steam Deck and this went into overdrive

At this point i feel like Linux is a realistic option for a gamer, qualified of course (anti-cheat tech tends to break things, plus there's a few problematic ones), but we are at the point where you can buy an AAA title and be relatively confident it will run on Linux (check first though)

Break free of proprietary friends ^^

sudo apt-get friends to play games with

Found the Nvidia user.

Well it's getting better, and fast imo. When I started using Linux some 4 years ago I could barely play anything in my library. If the game had online functionality in any way, chances were it didn't run. That has gotten a lot better imo but Proton is still not where it needs to be. But things change and from what I, as a consumer, can see it seems like the biggest problem now are invasive Anti-Cheats rather than anything fundamentally breaking the games.

Edit: but yeah, it sucks when shit ain't working and the small fraction of stuff not working is still a bit much to swallow

Haven't run into a game yet that doesn't run on Linux when using Proton. 👌

As someone who was already only mostly playing single player games, the transition from Windows to Linux was so easy. All my games just work. The only multiplayer game I fuck with anymore is Battlebit Remastered, and that works great.

Since my style of learning is "jump in and figure it out as you go" (impulsive idiot), I've been very impressed with how much has just worked.

I've been afraid to recommend my set up to friends though because I don't want to be their troubleshooter.

This seems dated. I'm not saying there is no issues but man has it improved so much.

Impossible, I've had Linux users swear to me that gaming on Linux is now perfect and even better than on Windows!

this is exactly me every time i'm showing someone how easy it is nowadays to run games in linux, only for the game that was running perfectly the previous night to throw some random error and crash my system

The only time I have trouble with Linux gaming is either a multiplayer game I want to play isn't supported or some Visual Novel having random issues every once in a while. But this meme is still true lol.

"ah shucks, Windows Update just initiated a reboot without asking, guess I'm out for the night guys"

Everyone in the comments: "Actually I don't have the same problems so this is wrong"

I always hear people say they sometimes have issues with games but I've switched to Linux relatively recently and I still haven't had a game in my library that didn't play.

It's crazy how much better things are now. I had the same reaction some weeks ago when I wanted to play Leathal Company with friends and remembered I'm on Linux while they all used some 3rd party Windows only mod manager. One day later I found r2modman in the AUR which automatically recognized Steam + Proton and everything just ran. And there is even a Titanfall 2 cross platform mod program!!!! The sofware support just keeps getting better every day.

• Free of proprietary software
• plays Apex Legends

Steam with Proton made this way more easier than in the past. OTOH, yeah, sometimes I feel like this when tuning CS2 on Wayland.

Yeah give me a minute to install and setup proprietary Nvidia drivers, Retroarch, PCSX2, Lutris, Steam and Wine-staging along with all of the necessary dependencies. Worth it tho

I installed KDE Neon on Friday evening and things were going great, everything was testing well, and Saturday game night with the gang went flawlessly, but this morning the VMWare Horizon Linux client spontaneously decided that it didn't want to accept mouse input anymore, so after ten minutes of troubleshooting I gave up and booted back into Windows so that I can be productive today.

A battle lost, but the war is not over yet.

It's always best to try it well ahead of time even if it's just for having that shader cache setup and ready to go.

Also trying to get trainers to run is a bit of a nightmare. I use steamtinkerlauncher for that and it's hit or miss I'd say.

install grub

install windows

only boot into windows

???

Is this true anymore with Steams Version of Linux? For the most part shit runs fine on my steam deck

Let's hope that game is open source, otherwise Richard Stallman would be very disappointed.

Me playing wow on lutris and it crashing the one time a week as we start a raid boss.

Meh. I definitely had issues getting bg3 working well on Linux.

Eventually I switched to windows and it was a nightmare of different and worse issues.

Back to Linux, found a fix. Sweet.

Is the joke that games are proprietary software too?

The only things I can't play on linux are games with heavy kernel-injected anti-cheats and racing games (AC and BNG). Everything else "just works". Hell, I even managed to get Overcooked's cross-platform version to work.

You've just got to power through the glitched textures and invisible floors, and talking to a floating pair of eyeballs and teeth is just the Mars Attacks version of your game.

Steam Deck time

There's no shame in dual booting. Moving all your non-gaming stuff away from windows is a big step in the right direction.

Wish I could play games on Linux, but for some fucking reason I can't figure out my gaming laptop with Nvidia 1660ti will not work properly with most games. If I ever can afford a new computer I'm probably going with AMD instead tbh.

This was me last week when my wife wanted to play a PC game together and I threw the PC to the TV via HDMI for the first time since I switched from Windows to Arch. The audio would not work at all despite all the settings being very clear that it should be sending the audio over the HDMI. Same physical/hardware/cable/TV as the setup that worked flawlessly in Windows. Still not thrilled about that one.

Still a couple deal breakers for me, though most stuff otherwise runs fine. No HDR support. Sucks if you have a great monitor but can't use it. No nvidia broadcast. Necessary for my mic+speaker setup, common alternative such as noisetorch are convenient, but don't even come close to echo filtering quality from the speakers. Yes, that's super subjective obviously. Performance tends to be noticeably to only slightly worse on max settings with nvidia on highly specialized, very demanding games. Some anti cheat tools struggle with compatibility modes.

We're getting there, but it's tough with nvidia not caring. :/

This anime girl is so cute.

Is it really 5 minutes? Usually I ask for 2 hours and then spend 2 days on it and by that time there is a new game my friends found

One of my friends and I end up troubleshooting for an hour before we can actually start playing games. Every single time. Linux just doesn't want us to play games together, I guess.

i thought this was about game development for a second and was confused as to why you wouldn't be able to do that on linux

Same thing for me on Windows. Technology is just angering.

I mean, Lutris, Protonup-qt and Winetricks get the job done pretty easily and fast once you learn how to use them.

This is the thing which keeps me from switching entirely to Linux. A friend of mine needs twice the amount of Time to start his Games (which is something I would have no Problem with) and what makes it not worth switching imo is that he loses the sound from Discord when he plays. He needs to restart DC then. And no one knows why ._.

Windows virtual machine as a backup if needed 👍

it's as easy as windows nowadays

Is that game open source?

Anyone playing Outer Worlds, the Spacers Choice Edition? Suuuper annoying issues, I might actually install it on Windows instead

Edit:
Flawless on Windows, general performance seems to be a tad better, too.

Which is great to see, because that means it's not the game itself, and that maybe Wine/Proton will be able to fix these issues

Aren't we all tired of this meme by now? Especially in this new age of Steam deck?

Seems a bit like trolling at this point.

me, trying to setup Skyrim mods to play Skyrim CO-OP with friends and constantly failing to setup a mod manager:

On the other hand I have a laptop with Intel and dedicated Nvidia card. Longterm ongoing heat problems (one heat pipe, one cooler, bad placement, thanks Dell) killed the Nvidia card.
Windows couldn't run anymore and couldn't be installed again.
With linux the laptop works again, at least with the Intel 3rd generation card.

You guys can get them to actually work???? Im counting myself lucky if the majority of games I try even start to begin with.

Its a distro agnostic problem too so I cant even jump to somewhere else to mitigate it.

can i get the meme template?

uses Linux

wants to run proprietary Windows Games on it

Plus their computer is probably still running proprietary firmware

Battlebit Remastered T_T

If I were to pick someone likely to overcome this adversity, it would be Miko.

Nobara + NVIDIA here. Everything works. Always. Seriously.

I like to imagine someone saying the top part out right before they start a round of a game then immediately transition to the bottom.

Hits me right in the kokoro, this is so relatable

Literally me when I was trying to get League working on Kubuntu on an 8-year old laptop lol

Testing! lol

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Use Debian or anything stable.

I'm so confused by why people have trouble with Nvidia on Linux. I have been using Debian and Ubuntu for as long as I can remember with Nvidia and it's never been a problem. Now I use Pop and it's perfectly fine too. No problem running dual 4K 60Hz monitors... Is the support bad on non-Debian distros?

From my experience running windows game inside wine, it's run but doesn't run smoothly like i running in windows
I don't know if i missing something at installation process, i've been trying install it with bottles same thing happened
But good news now is i can find some games at gog that running on linux natively

Why would anyone using FOSS stuff like Linux even want shitty corporate games anyway?

Then there's Lin-ux, or Line-ux, I don't know how you say it,

or how you install it, or use it, or play it,

or how you download it, or what programs run,

but Lin-ux, or Line-ux, don't look like much fun.