So I’ve been wanting to try to move to linux for the past few months but have been waiting to be done school, so I could the MS office suite behind me. I’m mostly writing this to share my experience for people who are considering switching.
I finally wiped my laptop to use as a test environment and installing and using it went really well so I went straight to dual booting my main PC with windows (some games I play need to be on windows for now). I started with trying opensuse tumbleweed because I wanted to try to KDE since gnome didnt vibe as well with me in my experience with Ubuntu VMs. It worked great on my laptop but the experience felt quite laggy on my desktop (if anyone has any ideas as to why, I would love to hear them). After fiddling around with installing codecs for a few hours I decided to try out KDE fedora.
This has been working super duper well so far out of the box. No sluggishness, everything’s been easy to install and whenever I need to change any settings a quick search gets me what I need. The main thing I have left to figure out is gaming performance. I’ve launched 1-2 games without too much difficulty but it does seem there maybe be a performance hit. Gotta test more before coming to any conclusions there. Hoping all the games work well so I can decidedly move to Linux without leaving too many games behind.
Just out of curiosity, what games do you play that dont work on linux?
League of legends, sadly lol. Also a touch of CS, while I haven’t tested it, I’m pretty sure it doesn’t work
For League of Legends, that one surprisingly works, even has a wine-ge build made specifically for it https://github.com/GloriousEggroll/wine-ge-custom/releases/tag/GE-Proton8-27-LoL
For CS, that’s one of the rare games that has native Linux support and runs without needing anything at all
Is this not up to date then? I knew that it was a thing that had worked, based on the previous link but did not think it worked atm. I’ll look into the link you sent tho!
The website was last updated 3 weeks ago while the fixes were a few days ago.
That’s awesome news! I’m gonna look into this now!
CS2 specifically supports Linux. They have a build just for Linux you can download from Steam.
To be clear Steam will download the Linux build by default on Linux. No user intervention required.
(If you need to for some strange reason you get run the Windows build in Wine via the “Compatibility” menu but that is unlikely to work better than the native build.)
Probably some online multiplayer ones