Dual-booting Windows 11 and Fedora 38. Gaming on Win 11 is, as expected, most times great. I want to migrate to Fedora and use it as a daily driver, and while it does a damn good job at doing just that, it’s disturbingly aweful at gaming. I’ve installed Steam and I set out to try a couple of games to see what it would handle.
It should be noted that I’m not a hardcore gamer, and I’ve historically not gamed on PC (but PS and Xbox), so I don’t have quite the extensive library of games on Steam like many others do. I’ve got Game Pass, but that won’t help me here. Anyhow… the games I’ve tried to run are games that I currently have on Steam.
Hardware:
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CPU: Ryzen 5 4600G
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GPU: RX 6700 XT
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RAM: 32 GB 3200 MHz
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SSD: 4 TB M.2
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I expected Civilization VI to run fine, and… it did. although anti-aliasing decided not to work.
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Humankind, does not run. At all.
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Broforce does in fact run perfectly fine!
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F1 2015 (don’t laugh, it was free), does run and it does in fact run at max settings, but the controls (keyboard + xbox) are fucked, so that’s also a no go.
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Red Dead Redemption 2, hahaha no.
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Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, hahah no, for some reason.
While I “love” and support “Linux”, this doesn’t cut it. Why am I even “here”? I’ve been using “Linux” for at least 15 years (incl. Windows),but if I want to play a God damn fucking game, I want to play it now, not tomorrow, or after I’ve googled a fucking hack that’ll break x amount of shit and take me hours to get running. This is why I’ll still use Win 11 as my daily.
Fedora as an OS is smooth, quick AF and I very much like it. Gaming on it? God no.
My point is, while Win 11 is basically “don’t worry, it’ll run!”, Linux (or Fedora at least is “I don’t know… maybe?”. That won’t convince a lot of people, and currently not me.
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Others have said enough but I just want to mention protondb.com look up a game you want to play here and you can see how others on Linux are doing with it.
Yeah, thanks for the mention, but it doesn’t seem very reliable unless people mention their HW. I’m on an all AMD system and even though it’s rated GOLD, it doesn’t even run on my system. (4600G & 6700 XT).
Your reply is MUCH appreciated though!
Yeah it should give you an idea if it’s Linux making it harder for you to game or if it’s your hardware. Or which version of proton they are using or any tweaks they did. Good luck!
This is a late reply so you may have already noticed by now, but in case you didn’t (or someone else who passes by doesn’t notice) - ProtonDB by default lists Steam Deck users on the top half of each game’s entry now so you won’t see those users hardware as it should be the same. However, on the second lower half of the page you’ll see people who aren’t on Steam Deck and generally users have their HW included so it shows up to the right of their comments.
I think its incredibly silly that it can’t be changed. I don’t have a Steam Deck for example, so I use this Tampermonkey script to add a collapse button to it (I don’t want them completely gone as its still a good rough indicator).
Yeah, I’ve (slowly) noticed this. At first glance it looks like something will run great, but then when you scroll down and read comments from people with other hardware, it won’t be that simple. The scores/ratings are, in other words, misleading (at a glance).
Thanks for your input!
They FINALLY added a tab at the top to select between All, Steam Deck, or Linux. I just noticed yesterday.
Oh thank gosh! Definitely something I’ll be glad to see.
For GTA VC for example people list some workarounds: https://www.protondb.com/app/12110.
You could also try using WINE: https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=18567
Edit: Usually the only hardware that matters is the GPU. The software is also important: GPU drivers (mostly for Nvidia users), version of Proton/WINE, Wayland vs Xorg, dxvk and extra libraries that a game might need.
Want to add that on desktop steam you can also add the Deck Verified indicator to games. While this isn’t as in depth. It’s definitely more streamlined and makes it easier to find games that are supported well.