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:

  • CPU: Ryzen 5 4600G

  • GPU: RX 6700 XT

  • RAM: 32 GB 3200 MHz

  • SSD: 4 TB M.2

  • I expected Civilization VI to run fine, and… it did. although anti-aliasing decided not to work.

  • Humankind, does not run. At all.

  • Broforce does in fact run perfectly fine!

  • 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.

  • Red Dead Redemption 2, hahaha no.

  • 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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  • @just_another_personEnglish
    3•1 year ago

    Fedora 38 specifically is terrible for gaming. Google and you’ll find out how bad. Ubuntu and derivatives still seem to be the best supported for most gaming applications, especially Steam.

      • @just_another_personEnglish
        4•1 year ago

        I think it mostly centers around the specific implementation choices the Fedora maintainers made with regard to libraries and kernel modules. Nvidia drivers causing lots of issues, people complain about performance degradation after kernel patches…etc. Reddit is full of users complaints, and if you dig in here, you’ll see lots of posts asking for help with issues mention F38.

        • zbecker
          1•1 year ago

          @just_another_person

          Makes sense. Since nobara is maintained by glorious egg roll, I would imagine that he would try avoid any issues.

          Performance degradation after kernel patches is definitely a weird issue.

      • @hardcoreufoEnglish
        1•1 year ago

        I found Nobara ran pretty well but maybe 5 % of my library wouldn’t work on Nobara but runs on Debian and arch based distros as well as solus on the same hardware.

      • mihnt
        1•1 year ago

        Nobara is gaming centric, so no. Glorius Eggroll codes on a version of Proton and is the developer of Nobara. However, when I gave it a go I found it to be a bit buggy. YMMV though. (Nobara I mean. His version of Proton is amazing.)