• PeWu@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    You’ve made me remember that quite not long ago I wanted to play on Linux (precisely on Mint, but I’ve also tried pop os), and I had three results:

    1 - Game not even trying to launch/wine error (usually related to graphics) (did happen once or twice, tested few games): Factorio, without magic wine parameters and magic overall

    2 - Game runs, but graphical glitches makes it unplayable: Factorio after tweaks

    3 - Game running fine, fps lower or equal than on windows: Minecraft, Kerbal space program

    (Yes, now I know Factorio also had Linux version, but it’s too late for that)

    So while it may be playable for some 9999 IQ rice master couch-looking moderator after just touching the demon named Wine, I don’t have the brains, patience or time tweaking every little parameter/environmental vars/wine prefixes on top of each other to make a game play at 2 fps. It also didn’t help that when trying to resolve apt conflicts, Mint just killed itself (looking at you aptitude). My overall experience of Linux isn’t bad, it may be good for customization masters, but for me, which would like having things “just working”, and maybe after that some trial and error tweaks, Windows is closer to that wish. Although when MS forces W11 onto me, I’m jumpshipping to Linux, no matter how shitty my UX is (at least I hope so)

    Edit: forgot that there is markdown, formating fix

    Edit2: bad brain, missing word fix

    • prole@sh.itjust.works
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      1 year ago

      Proton is incredibly simple to use, and gaming on Linux is pretty seamless for like 3/4+ of games now. Including Factorio.

    • havokdj@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Minecraft and other java apps actually run better on Linux because of the way the scheduler works, something wasn’t right with your system.