With all that’s going on. I’ve been really considering setting up a dual boot and testing Linux Mint properly. (i hate virtual desktops, but I have Mint running on one now) I know I have to make some changes to my productivity workload, as I’m an Adobe Lightroom user. I’ll keep that on Windows for now.

But my question is regarding gaming.

I play a lot of varying games, from new singleplayer and multiplayer stuff to old games back up to about 1999. I know I have to do a bunch of research setting things up, but right off the bat I have a question.

What games will not be possible to use on Linux?

For example, will something like Escape from Tarkov work? That’s a game I do not want to even install of there’s a chance it will lead to a ban.

And is comparability with older games better or worse than W11?

Edit: I just wanna extend a huge thanks to the community already! There’s some great info here so I’m gonna set up a dual boot soon!

Edit 2: Dual boot is now setup! Even though Mint makes sense from a long time Windows user. There’s a bit of a learning curve. But I’ll try it as a daily driver for a few days. Right now my disk setup prioritize Windows, obviously. But if I end up loving Mint, I’ll make a full switch and keep a small partition for Windows to run whatever Mint can’t.

Edit3: Spent hours trying to get anything to work. Games just would not launch and I exhausted everything I found online. Trying a reinstall and Pop Os this time. Learned a bunch of lessons my first try

  • applemao@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    5 days ago

    It’s true they’re easier in a way, but there will be bugs. For example i thought lego racer would be easy. Indeo codes crashed the game instantly. Had to search for a fix. Now intro video loads but very choppy, and the menu only has sound and the screen goes black. All amd hardware too, on mint. Unless you like to tinker a lot, just dual boot for now.

    • BlueSquid0741English
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      4 days ago

      I just opened Bottles and clicked to run the executable. Not quite, I manually set the launch options to disable video and set 1024x768.

      But aside from that, clicked run executable and I’m in and playing:

      https://i.postimg.cc/jdByG0Jm/IMG-3852.jpg

      EDIT: without disabling the videos, they play but you can’t skip them and then the game crashes afterwards. But from what I heard that also occurs on windows? It was a windows user saying it needs to launch with no video.

      For posterity, the launch options for LEGO racers under wine: -novideo -horzres 1024 -vertres 768