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0 pointsnerdjon2y ago0 comments

So my only real experience with linux gaming is with SteamOS and Proton.

A big example of a game that I had to jump through hoops (and just gave up and switched to Windows) was Kingdom Hearts. FF14 (not through Steam) was another example of a game that I got to work fairly well, but the steps to get it working was weird and meant I lost the syncing the real launcher had.

However I do want to mention that I actually did some comparisons, and at least on my steam deck I got better battery life and performance on games running on Windows 10 LTS vs the same games running on SteamOS.

I didn't do extensive testing, but enough to make the choice fairly easy and remove any compatibility issues.

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daedalus_j2y ago

The battery life one is interesting. I haven't installed windows on my Deck, but I would certainly expect that it wouldn't be anywhere near as good at managing the battery and hardware performance. That's fascinating.

Personally I've had way more trouble on the windows side, where the NVIDIA driver regularly breaks, causes wacky performance and screen tearing issues. There have been a few games where linux performance was notably worse, but mostly EA type things that eventually got fixed.

goosedragons2y ago

KH is annoying, what's REALLY annoying is its not the GAME that doesn't work well with proton. It's the DRM and the launchers. You can get the Epic store versions to work but it is a bit fiddly. For KH 1.5+ 2.5 you have bypass the launcher and go to the eye directly.

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