Look long story short, what i expected to be a short install ended up being a 5 hour manhunt for an issue that resulted in needing a closed source instead of open source nvidia driver. Shes all switched to linux, and if her trial goes well and i don’t end up tearing my hair out doing tech support. I may switch over as well, probably a different distro though.
One thing i will say though, even though the state of gaming has drastically improved since my first foray into linux, the “fine details” of gaming have not. Fuck me the first time i looked into the modding scene on linux and how much busywork that took, that just killed a little bit of my soul. Even trying to get her game open, we first had a xbox game controller bluetooth not connecting issue, my bandaid was to do a wired connection, and sitting here just now i hear a laugh and look back and see this in her game. What i can only imagine is some sort of video player error, but the game works. Its rough, but it works.
It’ll be interesting to see how this goes, thats for sure
It’s a weird cycle of “it’s not an OS used by gamers so we don’t have to support it” and “nobody supports it so I don’t wanna use it.”
And the part that sucks is that writing drivers for linux was probably trivial to these companies compared to windows but they just didn’t wanna because it’s unpopular.
My suspicion for Nvidia not opening their drivers is that they have something shifty going on, maybe benchmark “optimizations” or some other trickery.
That, and they’re plain evil.
I think it was a Finnish philosopher who once said it best: Fuck you, Nvidia.
Gotta love Finnish philosophy!
It’s much simpler than that actually. Nvidia makes a lot of money in feature licensing, particularly GRID/vgpu. If they fully open-sourced the driver they would have no method of enforcing license restrictions.
The xbox controller thing is because you gotta update the driver of the xbox controller on windows, then it works. (Source: had to do it)
Not necessarily, could be a Bluetooth driver issue.
I don’t think so, it worked out of the gate for me, but that would be the second thing to look at if it fails obviously.
Fair enough, I only said that cause it was the case for me aha.
Weirdly enough linuxmint with lutris + steam works fine for me. I followed this guide in order to figure out lutris configurations. Don’t download protonupqt though, just download through lutris.
Oh it’s the transphobic billionaire’s game. Nice 👍
As part of “Steam Play”, videos are re-encoded and downloaded to allow playback via proton in certain cases. On subsequent runs of the game, the video will likely work fine.
Switched over someone I know just recently. No headaches. Video card worked without issue from the jump and they’ve been playing Fallout 76 on it with more stability than they ever had with Windows. I put it on my own machine a few months back, and it was the same. Smooth. Either I got double lucky or you got unlucky.
You are seeing the truth of why normies should not switch lol. Its way more work than people tell you and if you dont find it fun like I do , you’ll hate it.
To fix the missing videos, use Proton-GE. Easiest method: Download it with Proton-up QT (bundled with Bazzite) then chose Proton-GE from the game’s Steam compatibility settings.
It’s because they use proprietary codecs that Valve can’t freely distribute.
It’s because they use proprietary codecs that Valve can’t freely distribute.
Interesting… I knew this was the solution to the video issue, but didn’t know why.
AFAIK Proton-GE uses VLC and Valve is from the US, where VLC is considered to breach some codec licenses I believe h264 decoding in particular. But I’m not sure, it’s been a long time since I’ve read about it.
I plan on making a post of my own personal experiences in the coming weeks. However, I will issue caution to others who may believe themselves to be higher on the tech savvy ladder: forget most of what you do with Windows and accept that Linux, no matter the distro or DE, is not going to be 100% like your previous Windows experiences. Tech peeps typically have a high level of OS/system customization. These don’t usually translate well to a non-Windows OS. On other “managed” operating systems, you might try things, but not be able to really do damage. If you try to force it with Linux, you will fuck yourself.
I’m really concerned about my MiL and wife as they both have machines with NVidia cards. My wife and her mother play Sims 3, as well. Her mom’s game, specifically, is extremely mod-heavy and she is religious about updating her mods when patches drop (she’s retired so has a shit ton of time to do that monthly, I guess). I’ve talked to her about getting off Windows, but I’m nervous to get her on any version of Linux because 1) I don’t play Sims 3 nor do mods for it, 2) I’m a tech-baby with Linux troubleshooting, unlike Windows, and 3) I’m just a registry editor 💔, so I’m concerned I won’t be able to support her potential sticking points with it and Sims 3 and it’ll further entrench her against Windows and change, in general.
Good luck on your journey, regardless. The people in this community are pretty great (including the Arch and Vi users, I guess)! Totally wasn’t held at gun point while saying that last bit. Nope, not at all!
However, I will issue caution to others who may believe themselves to be higher on the tech savvy ladder: forget most of what you do with Windows and accept that Linux, no matter the distro or DE, is not going to be 100% like your previous Windows experiences. Tech peeps typically have a high level of OS/system customization. These don’t usually translate well to a non-Windows OS. On other “managed” operating systems, you might try things, but not be able to really do damage. If you try to force it with Linux, you will fuck yourself.
This, right here, if you’re a tech savvy windows user considering migrating, read the above until you’ve internalized it. Don’t trust me? Go watch Linus from LTT use Linux and break everything in a matter of hours because he literally answered “Yes, I know what I’m doing” when he had no idea.
It’s my experience that tech savvy windows users know enough to be a danger to themselves, and worse, have the confidence to shoot themselves in the foot.
Yeah, i have an example of this. I spent since time today building a local copy of handbrake have it run in a distrobox of arch to get AMD hardware acceleration as an option. The flatpak version refused to do this. It wasn’t too bad, but still wild i did this.
What i can only imagine is some sort of video player error
My guess is, your system is missing a video codec, probably a gstreamer plugin like libav (I don’t know what its called on Bazzite, something like gst-plugin-libav or gst-libav …).
If you would start the game from console or find the steam log file you should see a error message. (I’m not at home now and rarely use steam, so I can’t look it up now).
close, but it would actually be missing the codec in proton. bazzite actually comes with a very comprehensive ffmpeg build and all its dependencies.
steam just can’t include those proprietary libs in proton. luckily, protonge exists for this exact reason.
You could’ve just ask ;)
To fix Xbox controller connect it to an Xbox console and update its firmware.
To fix some videos not playing in games, switch from stock Proton to GE-Proton, you can install ProtonPlus or ProtonUpQt from your desktop store for easy Proton installs, newly installed Proton versions show up after Steam restart.
Super weird that you upgraded your fiance’s computer to Linux, but not your own? What’s the driving factor here that led to using your partner as a lab rat?
She asked me to?
Ah, that adds a lot of context. Sorry, the post just sounded like this was a “you” initiative.
Nah lol she really doesn’t like the big AI push that windows is doing and suggested Linux, NGL I was surprised and a little proud
Maybe Tiny 11 was the answer?
Nvidia and Linux is possibly the most dysfunctional and hateful relationship in all of existence.
First mistake using bazzite second mistake not using cachy.
Third mistake? Playing Hogwarts that game just wants to not be played it’s wildly hard to get to work right for some damn reason.
Highly recommend Cachy as well. The only issues I’ve had running games are the games that do funky windows calls, like checking if edge is installed, before running well.
So far, CachyOS has been great for me. KDE Plasma pimped out looks great also.
JKR is very windows
