gaming
 

hi everyone,

ive been using win since 3.11, when a lappie had 50mb hdds, and always found it good for my style cause linux was made to be kinda "elitist" back in the day, but also cause (and heres the main point) im primarily a gamer, and linux has never been on good terms with games.

now, with these premises why am i on a linux board?

simple, i dont like where win is going, ive been using w7 for a while on my almost 7 years old desktop, i like it, but id like a bit more privacy, customization, freedom, im fed up with a lot of things lately, win 8 is always connected to a store that bothers you all the time, and who knows how many hidden services are on w10.

so, after reading some topics, id like to ask:

is gaming still that bad (theres really no way to convert direct x to linux instead of having opengl, which is hard to code for devs as i understood)? id like to play games like path of exile, fallout 4, skyrim, maybe some fps (not that much)

is new hardware "a bad thing" for linux distros (my pc is 7y old, id like to buy a new one in the near future, for gaming ofc, so i will get something "nice") ?

and lastly, i read the best distros for gaming are mint and zorin, can you confirm that ?


thanks for your time

heya' Qualcunom

1. Yes
2. Usually
3. Probably because of their lightness, speed, thus their ability to carry additional process's

you've pretty much nailed it

Amen to that.

You can install Wine on your linux OS. The program 'duplicates' Windows. It's not a virtualisation so it will run as fast as Windows. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wine_%28software%29
When playing Windows games with Wine you will be running DirectX, but probably not the latest version. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DirectX#Alternatives).

It all depends if the new hardware works closely with linux and provides its drivers or makes its drivers open source. If you go with big name brands and install the latest linux OS, you should be ok. However, before getting new hardware, it might be prudent to do a search to see if any linux users are having issues with it.

DirectX is Windows. PC games will run on Windows (but not necessarily on linux). So PC gaming is not about an OS optimised for gaming - it's about economics and power. PC gaming is about Windows.
However, you may consider Wine in a linux environment or having a Windows OS on a separate partition where games are installed and played strictly offline.

so windows for gaming will always be a linux user's 'guilty little secret' ...lol... that's not very elitist

Back in the day I did get BF2 running on a linux distro running wine, ndiswrapper and samba. It was playable, a little choppy and the resolution was out, but yeah, did get it going...

please get back to us with your results, Im really interested to see how it goes these day...

Ha ha. Nicely put.

I haven't used Wine yet. I still have a Win7 version which I use for Skyrim. It's always used offline though. However, I could install a new linux OS which has Wine on it and use it for PC games.
I'm considering getting a legit Skyrim copy and then installing the razor1911 crack to play it without having to register with Steam. But finding clear instructions is difficult.

thats very discouraging, i guess that when the time comes, ill just install it and try, if everything works it will be great, if it doesnt... ill install w7 again and wait 20 more years i guess, having a second partition makes no sense cause i play almost every day, and browse around while gaming, i think everybody does.. (also having twin boot with win kinda defeats the purpose of having linux in my opinion)

edit: so wine make a sub-OS in your os, kinda, going online with it is "safer" than win itself cause it's kinda rewritten, right ?

i hope we can get to fly with our wings, someday.

I'm not a gamer but I am under the impression that SteamOS is the way to go if that's your thing. :) Check the link, it looks like 1,663 games are available (and counting...)

Play Bonny!

:hattip:

unfortunately am not the kind of gamer that like games like dota and such

btw was browsing around and found a thing called "parallels desktop" from a site called odin, anyone knows if it works for this matter ? (or if its bad cause its an actual window copy that can run its services on the "other desktop" too)

i think wine is the way to go.
it calls itself a "windows compatibility layer", so it's not a virtual machine.
you can also install steam on (almost) any linux distro. steam on linux is a tweaked version of wine.