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My gf doesn't really notice she plays on Linux or she just does not care. (feddit.org)
submitted 1 week ago by lokalhorst@feddit.org to c/linux_gaming@lemmy.world
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I am and always was a casual gamer, I like playing puzzles, strategy and builder games, sometimes I play with friends some 7 days to die or AoE2. I am on Linux Mint for more than a year now and was surprised how easy gaming was. From time to time I had problems with weird DirectX error messages, but all in all everything just worked.

My setup:

  • AMD Ryzen 5 3600
  • GeForce GTX 1660 Super
  • 32 GB DDR4 RAM

So last week my girlfriend worked on my computer (we are not living together), she wrote some bills for customers and did some table stuff in calc. When I asked her at the end of the day how it was to work on Linux, she shrugged and said "Oh I didn't notice" lol (using Cinnamon as DE btw).

Today she bought Until Dawn the remake on Steam while she is here and because she really wanted to play she downloaded it to my PC. She just started to play and everything was great. I wondered again if I should say something like "you see how great you can game in Linux", but then it came to my mind - she doesn't care and she didn't even question it! The Linux Desktop got so mature, that non-tech people just don't notice!

I think the biggest "problem" with Linux adoption is that it does not come preinstalled on computers, and this kind of proves my point I guess.

Yeah that's all, I just wanted to share this with you guys.

P.S.: There were some bugs btw. but it turned out they have nothing to do with the OS.

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[–] Magnum@infosec.pub 1 points 5 days ago

No what I'm saying is that I literally help a couple people in my area jump to Linux and none of them have any trouble they didn't already have before and in general they have less trouble. Everything works, there is literally nothing someone wants to get done what he or she can't. We even got Cheat Engine up and running for this one guy because he really really wanted to use cheat tables instead of GameConquerer. And we have done it, it works and he can bow do it himself. But those are rare edge cases, most of the people and systems I kinda look over are happy and work fine.

I mean to be fair, there was one attempt which failed because he was using some high end audio hardware which indeed just wasn't supported for Linux, there were alternatives, but he already had his equipment so he went into the path of Win11 and debloating & running all those famous removal scripts but again, its an edge case and the only failed attempt