Dual-booting Windows 11 and Fedora 38. Gaming on Win 11 is, as expected, most times great. I want to migrate to Fedora and use it as a daily driver, and while it does a damn good job at doing just that, it’s disturbingly aweful at gaming. I’ve installed Steam and I set out to try a couple of games to see what it would handle.

It should be noted that I’m not a hardcore gamer, and I’ve historically not gamed on PC (but PS and Xbox), so I don’t have quite the extensive library of games on Steam like many others do. I’ve got Game Pass, but that won’t help me here. Anyhow… the games I’ve tried to run are games that I currently have on Steam.

Hardware:

  • CPU: Ryzen 5 4600G

  • GPU: RX 6700 XT

  • RAM: 32 GB 3200 MHz

  • SSD: 4 TB M.2

  • I expected Civilization VI to run fine, and… it did. although anti-aliasing decided not to work.

  • Humankind, does not run. At all.

  • Broforce does in fact run perfectly fine!

  • F1 2015 (don’t laugh, it was free), does run and it does in fact run at max settings, but the controls (keyboard + xbox) are fucked, so that’s also a no go.

  • Red Dead Redemption 2, hahaha no.

  • Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, hahah no, for some reason.

While I “love” and support “Linux”, this doesn’t cut it. Why am I even “here”? I’ve been using “Linux” for at least 15 years (incl. Windows),but if I want to play a God damn fucking game, I want to play it now, not tomorrow, or after I’ve googled a fucking hack that’ll break x amount of shit and take me hours to get running. This is why I’ll still use Win 11 as my daily.

Fedora as an OS is smooth, quick AF and I very much like it. Gaming on it? God no.

My point is, while Win 11 is basically “don’t worry, it’ll run!”, Linux (or Fedora at least is “I don’t know… maybe?”. That won’t convince a lot of people, and currently not me.

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  • CorInABox
    4•11 months ago

    Dropping by to throw some more praise onto the pile for Nobara Linux - it’s my current distro and I have an AMD RX 6700 as well. All the games in my Steam library work great, including Baldur’s Gate 3 (no tweaks necessary other than enabling the latest GE-Proton version). Unfortunately I haven’t played any of the games you listed; my preferences lean mostly towards RPGs like Elden Ring, Path of Exile, Guild Wars 2, Valheim (with mods!), Enderal and so on.

      • RanjeliqEnglish
        4•11 months ago

        Not the one you have been asking, but you can eigher install Lutris, and then install GW2 from there, or download it on Steam. Those are 2 fairly straightforward ways. If you have an ArenaNet account (rather than an account binded to Steam), but still want to use Steam as your launcher - just write “-provider Portal” in launch options.

      • CorInABox
        2•11 months ago

        I use the Steam version with the -provider Portal launch modifier (lets me use my old ANet account)