Please remove or tell me to delete if this isn’t allowed!

I’ve been dual booting Ubuntu and Windows for a good few years now. I keep the windows around for gaming, because, ahem, I don’t like giving EA, among others, money. I know it’s not a problem to play most of the games I’ve paid for on Linux, but does anyone have experience with playing games on Linux that you’ve, somehow, obtained for free? And keeping them updated, too?

I’m still going to dual boot because keeping my games separate from my work is a decent adhd strategy for me, so I’m open to gaming friendly OS suggestions as well!

  • ikidd@lemmy.worldEnglish
    10·
    9 days ago

    You’re going to want to install the Proton tools which include Wine and pile of other tools for making games work well (sometimes better) on Linux.

    Besides installing Steam for Linux, you can also use Lutris which allows you a lot of tweaking to get non-steam games working under Proton.

    You can check the viability of running your games on Linux with ProtonDB.

    A shortcut to all this is to use a distro like Nobara or Bazzite that are pretty much designed from the ground up to run games and other graphics intensive software like video editors etc.

      • ikidd@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        9 days ago

        Yah, those distros have all this stuff preinstalled and I don’t have nVidia, but if you do there’s a place in the Nobara welcome screen to enable the nVidia drivers. GloriousEggroll, who does the Nobara distro, is one of the primary contributors to Proton.

      • slowbyrne@lemm.eeEnglish
        2·
        8 days ago

        A word of caution on using Bazzite, it is an immutable operating system based off of fedora atomic. So there are differences/limitations in how software is installed. Not suggesting you avoid Bazzite, I’m using it on my main gaming rig, just know that it’s a bit different than a standard Fedora varient.