I’ve been debating making the switch for a long time, but after spending like a week researching Proton, Lutris etc. on Linux, I decided to try it out and nuked my entire Windows 11 drive. :)

So far, every game I threw at it works perfectly fine, including Elden Ring & Cyberpunk.

I had to spend a little time troubleshooting some small issues but it’s part of the fun!

Specs are in the neofetch, my compositor / WM is Wayfire (Wayland) :)

  • Matthew@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    OPEnglish
    5·
    1 year ago

    I have made quite a few tweaks to my system :

    • My kernel is the linux-tkg kernel
    • I’ve installed gamemode
    • I use wine-tkg to get FSYNC
    • I check ProtonDB for each game I install, to check for any launch parameters that might be needed / help with performance
    • SunRed@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
      4·
      1 year ago

      Yeah, the linux-zen kernel is a good alternative to linux-tkg for gaming that’s available in the official repos. What most likely makes the biggest difference and is probably the issue for @inurblacchole is the lack of gamemode. Depending on the cpu and the default governor used it might not boost enough in games where performance or schedutil is needed.

      • mrmanager@lemmy.todayEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        Actually phoenix showed that the zen kernel has slim to no advantage compared to the vanilla kernel for gaming. But I use it anyway because it’s not worse.

        • SunRed@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
          1·
          1 year ago

          Yeah, I would even say that most custom kernels have a very negligible advantage in gaming. I know the zen kernel aims to reduce latency but I would say it comes more down to compatibility and features. For example one rather recent thing I remember since Fedora changed this as well is that the vm.max_map_count is already set on linux-zen to the same value the SteamOS kernel uses (I think it’s just INT_MAX) that helps with game compatibility on Wine/Proton.