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"I would like to switch to Linux, but it's just not good for gaming" (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by Sonotsugipaa@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/linux_gaming@lemmy.world
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(The "Windows" slices of the pies are entirely made up by Baldur's Gate 3, which also runs well over Linux)

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[–] WalrusByte@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Ever since I built my new PC a few months ago, my chart would be completely purple. I mostly play Indie games though, and they seem to have better Linux support

[–] Sonotsugipaa@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Same here, I only had to run BG3 on Windows (in a VM) for very specific reasons tied to my setup.

[–] winety 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

If you don’t mind me asking, what is the problem? I have heard (I am being patient and I haven't bought the game yet.) mostly good thing about running BG3 using Proton.

[–] Sonotsugipaa@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 11 months ago (2 children)

It's not much of a problem with BG3, more like a problem with Discord being absolute stinky festering garbage and not playing nice with my window manager at the time (Sway).

[–] winety 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

If you don't need push to talk, I'd suggest using the browser version instead of the app.

[–] Sonotsugipaa@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 11 months ago

I've tried several combinations of versions and sources (at least 5), but there's always something missing.

[–] rescue_toaster@lemm.ee 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I haven't used discord on sway yet, but from some reading around as i will likely be upgrading pcs and switching to sway (wayland) from i3 (xorg), i think it is discord doesn't play nice with wayland.

[–] Sonotsugipaa@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 11 months ago

That's correct, on X11 Discord works... relatively fine, ot least that used to be the case for me.

More precisely, Discord uses an ancient version of Electron which doesn't support most of Wayland's shenanigans.

[–] moreeni@lemm.ee 1 points 11 months ago

I bet it's related to NVIDIA drivers