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Join the Linux club. You'll never go back once you get the hang of it! Nothing in my house has Windows. Left it years ago and have had zero regrets.
Have you been able to set up a windows VM for the purpose of gaming, or do you just play proton compatible games?
I only play native and proton/wine-compatible games on Linux, but keep in mind that we're still talking about a lot of games.
Recently I've been mostly playing Street Fighter 6 (outside of TotK on the Switch, that is) and it works damn near flawlessly from what I can tell; single player, ranked matches, replays, etc, all work perfectly. I've also played a ton of Elden Ring, Apex Legends, and a bunch of other stuff too.
I used to think that running a VM with GPU pass-through would be cool, but frankly these days I just don't feel like I need it for any of the games I like to play. Your mileage may vary though depending on what games you're into.
I'm an early steam decker (and got one for my gf) so I know about how great proton is.
I agree sf6 is really well optimized (it also runs great on deck). I hope Tekken 8 is the same, as that looks to be a big visual jump from sf6.
What controller do you play sf6 on?
Yeah, we have a couple of Steam Decks over here too, but I've mostly been playing SF6 on my Linux desktop. (Fedora with an AMD GPU)
World Tour Mode is a bit chunky at times, but from what I understand it's just kind of like that in general. I also don't think the mode is that great. As for online play it's perfect. :)
Yeah. For what it's worth, Tekken 7 runs like a dream on Linux, though I'm not as experience with Tekken as I am with SF in general, so it's a little harder to tell.
Strive works perfectly these days (had a couple glitches with it when it first came out but those have since been resolved), and a bunch of classic fighters like Xrd, SF4 and MvC3 work perfectly too. Sometimes you have to watch a couple replays for shader compilation hitching to resolve, or at least that was the case last time I went through and tested a bunch of games.
We have a couple of Qanba Eightarc Fusion fightsticks from the PS3/360 days that are plug-and-play on Linux. I think I usually have them switched to the Xbox360 mode, but I'm not even sure that it matters. (Unfortunately one of the sticks finally lost the down switch last week so I'm waiting for some parts to come in.)
But yeah, generally Linux gaming is pretty much where it needs to be for me. That might not be the case if you're into heavy RT games with a top of the line Nvidia card or stuff with really strict anti-cheat, but for me I basically never boot over to my Windows partition anymore for gaming.
Tekken 7 is what got me 100% invested in the FGC, strive is my main game currently.
Here are my toys: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/225838
Typically xbox 360 mode is most compatible with PCs so I think you have the right idea. I'd love to get some more sticks since 4/5 of my controllers are leverless.
I recently got a 4080 (upgrading from 1.5gb GTX 580) so I have just begun exploring the world of new games. They're a nice change of pace between my speedrunning and fighting games.
Damn, nice collection. :)
I got into fighting games just before SF4 came out with SF2 HD Remix (PS3), the SF3 Anniversary Collection (PS2) and some GGPO, so my first stick was the MadCatz SF4 Fightstick (the smaller/cheaper one, not the original TE), which was fun but also kind of crappy with buttons that would stick all the time and broke in less than a year. Eventually I put some sanwa parts in it though and used that for years until I fell for the Eightarc Fusion, at which point I gave the stick to a friend who was getting into fighters around that time.
I really fell off of fighting games for a few years during the SFxTK/SF5/MvCI era... but with Strive, SF6, older ASW games getting rollback, and all that jazz it feels kind of like 2008 again.
Nice! I'm a lot newer to the scene than you are, but I've been playing I-no since strive launch. I kinda fell out of playing but Asuka has me captivated! I love this character. I'm happy to see SF6 bringing in so much new blood