Usually when gamers switch to linux it’s because they don’t want to use windows in the first place, it’s like you’re telling a refugee from north korea that if they want to work they should probably just go back to north korea where it’s easier for them to find work to do.
Or maybe telling a person that just left an abusive relationship to go back to that abusive relationship if they’re trying to find some sex.
Sure it’d be the simplest option, doesn’t make it their best one thouhgh because they obviously have reasons for not wanting to do that in the first place or they wouldn’t be here.
I suppose that is true. I just assume that they prefer gaming with no hassle and no need for tinkering - just gaming.
People I know who really care about security and dislike proprietary software usually avoiding proprietary software altogether, including proprietary video games. More secure that way.
It’s kinda just a matter of how extreme you’re really willing to get, and security isn’t really the only side of this, there’s also privacy, with microsoft openly spying on it’s users since windows 10, it’s not strange people want to run away from the damn thing.
I would say it depends on the game. A lot of games that I wanna try out are between Gold and Native on ProtonDB. If there are issues, it is likely I will find a fix there for it. The only games I can’t play on Linux are live services ones, gacha games, which is just live service with a slot machine for gameplay progression, and games that require a kernel level anti-cheat, and even then it is possible to install them and enjoy them, depending on the game. It does require more tinkering, yes, but it is possible to game on Linux. If it wasn’t, the Steam Deck wouldn’t exist in its current form.
Also, open source, as great as it is, is probably just as vulnerable to security issues as any other piece of software, simply because not every open source project can be like Plasma or GNOME or Firefox or the kernel, etc. Bigger projects get more eyes on them and projects with fewer eyes on them can have people exploit its security to do malicious things and no one questioning them at all.
Honestly even if windows didn’t have the security issues and shit I would not wanna go on it, because when I tried to install it on a VM it basically talked to me like I have no idea what a computer is. And wanted me to use my voice, which is just. Invasive. I install Linux it gives me a bunch of words I need to google or ask my dad about but at least it acts like I know what a computer is, and doesn’t make me literally talk to it.
Also the ads are just too far. I saw the ads. I do not want ads on my desktop. That all, and KDE is much prettier. I very much care about the graphics xD
As regarding to the steam issue, Hollow Knight works again but is being weird about my controller, and it also glitches like the rest but does stop after a bit, cult of the lamb is being temperamental with Proton, and everything else is still broken. It did work better after I reduced the amount of virtual desktops I had from 16 to 10, so I suppose steam might also suddenly just be confused by KDE.
I will try installing nvidia-dkms as recommended once I have braced myself for potential software stress sufficiently. Might be tomorrow, I will report back to everyone here anyhow.
If your controller is weird in a steam game you can try messing with the steaminput settings, which can be done on a per game basis.
Also this site is potentially useful for you to get a baseline for if your controller is detected right by your system in the first place hardwaretester.com/gamepad
Thanks! The site seems to say it’s normal, but the buttons are a bit messed up whenever I plug it in and have to be remapped manually. I think the controller bugging (not the key thing that’s general) is more an issue with hollow knight specifically, since cult of the lamb is normal about it. I’m not too bothered about it so far, I’ll find a way to fix that
alright, I’ve done this, no fix at all, still bugs the same way. I also played Hades in the mean time, which doesn’t use Vulkan on default, and it also glitches like that so I guess Vulkan isn’t the problem either
Do you have Windows installed? If you do, check games with that. At this point I am wondering if it isn’t your GPU being faulty. I don’t know what else could it be, if it isn’t the drivers, it isn’t the Steam version, it isn’t anything.
I don’t think it’s my GPU tbh, it’s pretty new and it only bugs with steam games. Minecraft causes absolutely no problems, and I play with mods and shaders so it’s not being easy on my GPU at all. I don’t know much about hardware firmware but the fact that it only bugs for steam makes me feel like this isn’t the case. I honestly think it’s KDE and steam hating each other.
I have Windows on a VM but it’s not enough to host games at all