I am brave enough to say it: The ocean has water in it.

Praise me for my braveness.

I was so reluctant to transition to Linux for gaming. I've been using Linux since 2007, so I'm not new to the OS.

I took the plunge a handful of months ago, and it is an amazing experience. The games I like to play actually saw performance gains when switching over.

I still dual boot a Win 10 partition for outliers, but so far the only game to get installed there has been BF6, due to the requirements of their anti-cheat.

Seriously, all the lutris & co mess is obsolete now.

Open Steam > add non-steam game > properties > compatibility > force proton 10 > profit

Worked for all the cough responsibly ripped .exe's I've thrown at it so far

THIS is the year.

Posts 30 year old photo of Linus

Some of y'all are showing your bubble side; outside of our communities here, Linux very much is obscure. That said, there really does seem to be a leak in the mainstream and it's nice to see it mentioned in a publication. Even if just a little gain, thanks in large part to Steam raising awareness for gamers, US decline in Europe and Canada, and Windows 11 blunders with security.

I've gone from people being completely oblivious when I mention Linux, to going "oh, like steam deck?" but there's still plenty of others who still are oblivious. Then again, mentioning file extensions goes over the heads of 95% of who I talk to, so I wouldn't have too high hopes.

As a 20+ year Linux user, no shit. It's been great every year.

our university put linux mint on all the desktop computers this year.

Given I'm actively avoiding modern multiplayer games for more reasons than just the fact that they pretty much all have rootkit DRM (I know kernel-level anticheats have a different target than traditional DRM, but they're functionally DRM so they count as DRM to me), and one of the few games I have left which were unplayably broken on Proton work now (Civ3, still has audio issues that to my knowledge can't be corrected for non-destructively, but the black-map issue is now fixed, at least on my end using proton-cachyos), I have no plans on running Windows again any time soon, not even in a VM.

I switched my gaming pc to Linux and all the games I tried so far worked good.

I've been gaming on Linux mostly if not entirely full time since 2014. Back when you had to look to see if there was a Steam icon alongside the Windows and sometimes Apple logo because Proton wasn't the "everything works" magic it is now.

Anyone complaining about the state of Linux today look like diaper shitting babies. "WAAAH! My privacy invading rootkit requiring multiplayer CoD Fortnite meme slop sippy cup game is specifically designed to not run on Linux. WAAAAH!" Yeah, I remember when hair didn't grow near my genitals too, but then I stopped acknowledging any of my feelings in public except anger and pretended to like beer out of sheer force of peer pressure, and thus became a fully grown man by the standards of my culture. Get on my level.

What were we talking about?

I'll take whatever positive press Linux can get at this point. More people switching over is a good thing.

I hate PCGamer's website. Everytime I get partway through an article, a pop-up shows asking me to sign up to their newsletter. Now the pop-up alone would turn me off of their website, but what happens is the pop-up scrolls the article all the way back to the top of the page. So I completely lose my reading position.

PCGamer isn't the only site to do this, but I think it's one of the more popular ones that do.

The other thing that sites do now that earns an instant DNS block on my pihole, is capturing the back action that prevents leaving the site to show a pop-up that says "wait, before you go, check out these other articles" or something along those lines. HELL.... NO!

I'd like to give Battlefield 6 a try, but it's not important enough for me to dual boot Windows or anything silly like that.

IMO, the hardest part of moving over is relearning a bunch of things you've taken for granted. However, Windows has been changing and breaking things at such a rapid pace, that not even my friends who still use it can keep track.

Wow. So brave.

I'm brave enough to say it

Made the switch during Christmas to Cachyos. I am extremely glad I did, and so relieved to finally be free of Microsofts clammy grasp.

I already stopped playing online competitive games long ago, so the anti-cheat thing isn't really a problem for me. All the games I want to play works fine, even better in fact than they did on Windows.

I only have one problem with my linux mint distro: Sometimes cheats for video games don't work.

Like I like to use savegame editors for Cyberpunk 2077, but they don't work on linux despite all my attempts, and PINCE (Pince Is Not Cheat Engine) works for almost all games but just not for some.

And that, ladies and gentlemen (and all those in between or neither) is when I finally found a reason to actually code after tinkering on-off for decades: I want to make those save game editors for linux! That is something that legit doesn't exist but needs to.

This person's writing style is, frankly, well, pretty obnoxious.

PC Gamer saying this is a good sign though, still one of the most popular special interest magazines that's not porn

I too, am super brave for switching to Linux from Windows 11.

Joking aside, I love it. My relatively new laptop runs so much smoother on it. W11 always was doing something in the background and making my fan blast even when I wasn't using it. That's all gone and it's a much happier device.

My printer works, my wacom intous tablet works, all my steam games so far work (I haven't played every single one, but the ones I have played are fine).

Honestly, there was some things I had to troubleshoot at the beginning. I just asked AI and it gave me the terminal commands that I needed to get it done.

10/10 would recommend... if you're brave.

I'll go ahead and share my experience with Mint so far. Gaming worked mostly fine which is pleasing.

I couldn't get many basic features working correctly for my dual monitor set up. Even after putting in the time to research.

I couldn't get multiple proprietary programs to work for my job.

The customization in settings is extremely limited.

I have to mess around with complex terminal commands I do not fully understand every time I need to do something more than use my browser.

I will try another distro this year, but it is definitely not a foolproof experience.

A lot of things Windows does easily, I took for granted.

I made the switch this year

I'm doing my part