Unplayable on Linux and good on Linux?

My Dear Scott!

You could always… you know… buy either a “work-only” PC (something like a Orange pi 5 max) or a “Windows PC” to play these games?

t. Got three “computers” with different functions and I’m about to have a 4th one.

“Oh, look! One(1) game has been busted by the devs themselves and because of that, Linux gaming is dead as ever!”

lmao what

It could be (pretty much) any distro you want – considering scripts like armbian-gaming exists and can give you a “one stop shop” experience.

Why running scripts like these instead of downloading the “real thing”? When you have “obscure”/unsupported sbcs and you need to “make your own” version of it.

It can be (pretty much) any distro you want – just make a minimal install, install the stuff you want, pull config files from your github and throw em in $HOME, that’s it.

Git hype for Crysis running on the rpi 5!

Nah, they are doing you a favor.

“What, you don’t like retro yet proper gaming on a 1W device?”

– Me, if I were that lone guy holding a controller

To use (and enjoy) Linux properly, you’ve got to “unlearn” several things including the bad habit of expect everything to “just werk”. If you are expecting to “double click your cares away” on Linux, then it’s (very) likely you’ll be disappointed.

With that aside, your best bet is to go for Linux Mint and not Arch Linux.

I haven’t tried it, but I suppose you’ll do just fine with debian sid. i.e edit /etc/apt/sources.list, swap $distro_nickname for sid, sudo apt update, sudo apt full-upgrade.

It’s a mix of baby duck syndrome and conformism.

Nah, they reduced its If { else if sequences.

Aw ye! Can’t wait to game with FSR 3 on my Raspberry pi 4!

tl;dr

Eh… “gaslighting 101” – swears randomly (against the victim/target), throws in a (non-random) praise to “raise the fire even more”, refuses to elaborate.

it runs my games better than Linux and I’m really lost.

You already answered your own question/experience – do some “duckduckgoing” (even if it means falling back to the basics once again, “How to run a windows game on linux”) and then come back here. Because yes, GNU/Linux is 100% viable for gaming and can even run games better than on Winblows – if you know how to setup things properly.

A word of advice however, Linux tend to be a bit “sensitive” regarding some system elements/packages – you’ve got to provide all possible info to everything – theres no “ready out of the box” in these lands.

More like, “doesn’t matter – not being tracked > all.” :^)

Even so, Linux is easier to use than Windows (yes, I went there.) because of a single and only fact:

Configuration files.

Does the average Windows user can configure EVERYTHING through a SINGLE configuration/text file, that explicitly says “what does what”? Video, sound, window size, hotkeys…?

No? So there you have it.

Resorting to (pure) denials won’t change facts neither prove me wrong – all GNU/Linux distros are equally good and can be tweaked/improved equally – there are nothing that makes em stand out.

Nobara has a number of kernal patches and general fixes not found on Fedora

…which can be implemented on every other distro as well. Again, it’s GNU/Linux and not Windows – “all you can see/exist in a distro you can do/implement in every other distro.”

Distro with preinstalled packages =/= distro with exclusive features. The same packages available on “gaming distros” are available on any other “non-gaming” distro as well.