Hello r/linux_gaming!
Long story short, I’m tired of Windows, lately it’s been giving me problems after problems and after talking to a friend of mine that uses Fedora Linux, it caught my attention more than ever.I was already interessted in switching to Linux for the longest, but now that I’ve been having tons of problems with Windows, this might be the right time to do so.
After searching a bit, I’ve came to the conclusion that I might switch to Linux Mint (more specifically, the Cinnamon Edition).I have some questions that I’ve been searching but never got a consistent answer (since it’s probably more of personal preference).
Performance wise, does anyone know if Linux is actually better than Windows?
I’ve seen some videos and benchmarks and it looks like it really depends on the title, but overall, do you know if it’s actually better than Windows?
So, to people who are familiar with Mint, or actually use Mint, what Edition would be the best for me?
I’m currently using a laptop as my main device:
- CPU - I5-12450H
- GPU - RTX 3050 Mobile
- RAM - 16GB
Does anyone know the current state of VR Gaming in Linux?
I play a lot of VRChat, and I just wanna know how the current state of VR Gaming is on Linux.From a friend of mine, he says that due to how Linux handles games overall, he has a way better performance than when we was on Windows, but I don’t really have no way to prove that since I can find little to no benchmarks (on VRChat).
Where can I download Steam games in Linux?
I can’t really find a consistent answer on this one…
Is it a good idea to Dual Boot between Windows and Linux?
Sadly, I can’t fully switch to Linux, since I still have tons of stuff that I’m too used on doing in Windows. So, what are your thoughts on Dual Booting between Windows and Linux?
I’m sorry for the amount of questions, I’m just really tired of the OS I’m currently using and I’m just really looking for something fast and lighter, but thank you for reading my post, have a good day :)
I’ve seen other replies that tell the same, that performance should be better but not for gaming, I might dive in multiple distros with a VM to really get a feel of it.
I’ll probably never get fully rid of Windows, nor I really want to, at least right now, but I just really wanted to get this main question out of my head which was gaming on Linux.
And thank you for your time to reply :)
Gaming on Linux “is a hellhole” for a certain (admittedly popular) subset of gaming. If you like playing competitive multiplayer games, well you’re going to have a rather restricted choice of available titles because for many of them the anti-cheat software simply isn’t ever going to work on an OS that works the way that Linux does. For example, Valorant. There aren’t zero multiplayer games that will work, but I’m afraid a lot of the big titles are in the Nope bucket.
Outside that, your odds are excellent. If you like single player games or are into the emulation scene, then games that won’t work at all are the exception not the rule.