What do I need to know about gaming on Linux?

Cromulent · 18 Feb 2020 at 20:31

I've been running Linux on servers for years and have been using it for programming for awhile as well but I've always used Windows for gaming.

Well I've finally cracked. I've had Windows 10 uninstall my WiFi once too often so I'm switching to Linux for everything on my gaming laptop. I have Ubuntu 19.10 installed and just need to get started really. What do I need to know? I'll be doing serious work on it as well so can't really use a gaming distribution.

Edit: I know I've asked about gaming before but that was when I was trying to use OpenSUSE and for various reasons I've gone back to Ubuntu. The main one being that I've used it on servers for the longest time so I'm used to how it does things.

Mcnumpty2323 · 18 Feb 2020 at 20:40

Messed around with manjaro
Couple weeks ago
Main thing I found was very simple
To install my official nvidia driver
Unlike how it used to be

Sp00n · 20 Feb 2020 at 12:40

The same advice applies as to when you were gaming on on Suse, steam play, protondb.com, wine subreddit.

Cromulent · 21 Feb 2020 at 09:12

Sp00n said:
The same advice applies as to when you were gaming on on Suse, steam play, protondb.com, wine subreddit.

Cool. Thanks. Sorry for asking twice but I'm never sure with these things. I'm looking forward to trying out some of the older GOG games using Wine as they are nice and small to download. I didn't realise how many games had native Linux ports though.