Linux gaming levels up as CachyOS beats Windows 11 in head-to-head tests

[womanbeatmania]

Until you hit a game that just won’t run on Linux

For example?

 

[deafghost52]

nVidia Linux drivers are just fine. The only people who have trouble with nVidia on Linux are open source elitists. nVidia doesn't play as smoothly on Linux as AMD does. However, most gaming distros have an nVidia version that is already preconfigured to give you the best possible experience. It's really a non issue these days.

Yeah, I was under the impression distros like Cachy and Pop! were SPECIFICALLY designed with Nvidia in mind. And it works fine for me!

 

[LordVile95]

For example?

LoL, CoD, any EA title. Other things like iracing don’t allow you to play online using Linux.

 

[maxxcool7421]

Linux makes up less than 3% of market share. It cost money and resources to make a Linux version of a game. No one cares about the 3%. Look at Paradox, they used to release Linux versions then they publicly said it was not worth the cost to do that due to them seeing that almost none of their players actually used their Linux version.

someone forgot::
-PLAYSTATION GAMING
-SWITCH GAMING
-STAND UP ARCADE GAMING
-MULTI-BILLION DOLLAR F1 SIMULATORS
-RETRO-PI ETC..
-Macos gaming
-Android Gaming

Windows gaming is about 25% of the actual gaming market .. in the scope of all gaming .. linux is king.

 

[LordVile95]

someone forgot::
-PLAYSTATION GAMING
-SWITCH GAMING
-STAND UP ARCADE GAMING
-MULTI-BILLION DOLLAR F1 SIMULATORS
-RETRO-PI ETC..
-Macos gaming
-Android Gaming

Windows gaming is about 25% of the actual gaming market .. in the scope of all gaming .. linux is king.

And none of that is Linux so if windows is 25% total that makes Linux less than 1%. The only point you might have is Android which isn’t Linux and is tiny by revenue

 

[amghwk]

LoL, CoD, any EA title. Other things like iracing don’t allow you to play online using Linux.

Really?? They all work in Linux.

 

[LordVile95]

Really?? They all work in Linux.

Go try play LoL, F125 or BO7 on Linux then

 

[amghwk]

Go try play LoL, F125 or BO7 on Linux then

Are you actually using Linux? And you said "ANY" EA title. Next time, don't just spew out whatever comes to your mind.

 

[LordVile95]

Are you actually using Linux? And you said "ANY" EA title. Next time, don't just spew out whatever comes to your mind.

I try Linux every few years to see the state of it. It’s improved but nowhere near smooth enough to replace windows and won’t be for a long time even if the kernel level anticheat issue is worked out.

Pretty much every EA title now isn’t playable on Linux. Even single player titles are a PITA with specific versions of Proton required and even then they have issues with loading, audio, input, performance and textures (Jedi Survivor for example) and multiplayer titles are a straight up no. If you’re happy being locked into 2022 and earlier that’s fine I guess but the most played titles aren’t available on Linux

 

[Hecate91]

EA titles aren't even worth buying anymore, and I suspect someone who insists "any" EA titles don't work under Linux has either never really used Linux or hasn't used Linux in years.

 

[LordVile95]

EA titles aren't even worth buying anymore, and I suspect someone who insists "any" EA titles don't work under Linux has either never really used Linux or hasn't used Linux in years.

You don’t really have to buy things to look at what titles sell. If most people cannot play the games they want then why would they buy the system?

 

[Hecate91]

I could care less what titles sell, the average gamer doesn't know how to look past the remade over and over again AAA slop putting graphics over producing an enjoyable game.

Too many EA titles are overhyped and are sold with a bunch of microtransactions to milk players. BF6 has been an absolute failure with losing over half of the playerbase, and a bunch of empty promises the company hasn't kept,especially with larger maps, bug fixes, or a server browser.
Once you stop caring about sales numbers or the latest AAA title, there are tons of games from smaller studios that don't put shareholder interests over making fun games.

 

[LimyG]

I am correct in saying CachyOS would be good in this senario: ?
AMD based system. Single player games only. Avoid all EA games.

Probably OK, getting better going forward: ?
The same as above but with NV GPU.

Potentially problematic: ?
People who play lots of online games with anti-cheat.

Totally useless: ??
People who play only EA online MP games.

Two questions. 1. Are all my scenarios total garbage? 2. How "user friendly," is CachyOS overall - (installation, non gaming activities etc.)?

 

[d3Xt3r]

I am correct in saying CachyOS would be good in this senario: ?
AMD based system. Single player games only. Avoid all EA games.

Probably OK, getting better going forward: ?
The same as above but with NV GPU.

Potentially problematic: ?
People who play lots of online games with anti-cheat.

Totally useless: ??
People who play only EA online MP games.

Two questions. 1. Are all my scenarios total garbage? 2. How "user friendly," is CachyOS overall - (installation, non gaming activities etc.)?

You're mostly right, except there *are* some EA games you can play online, eg ​Star Wars: Battlefront II, Titanfall 2, etc. Battlefield 3/4 also works using some workarounds for Punkbuster and the EA launcher. Newer Battlefields don't work however. But this may change in the future as EA has advertised a vacancy for a Linux anticheat engineer...

As for your second question, CachyOS is fairly user-friendly, though it's not the most newbie friendly. You can even update your system and install apps via the GUI, without needing any commands. However, you'll need to pay attention to their announcements on their Discord server, ocassionally (maybe one or two times an year) upstream Arch might make a change which might need some manual intervention. Which is not the end of the world as you can always reinstall if you miss that and somehow break your system... and installation is pretty fast and painless. But their support is pretty active and usually most of these issues are pretty easy to solve.

If you're a complete novice however, I'd recommend using an immutable distro instead, like Bazzite or PikaOS, which have very little scope for breaking.

 

[LimyG]

Hey @d3Xt3r, Thank you. Good info!

 

[Endymio]

As for your second question, CachyOS is fairly user-friendly, though it's not the most newbie friendly...

The real reason Linux penetration is low:

Any long-term Linux user will understand....

 

[LimyG]

Thanks. I'll be careful not to install, CachyOS, or any OS for that matter on my toaster.
Excellent tip.