Hey all,
A friend has expressed disgust with windows 11 and a desire to put linux on their new gaming tower, and asked for some help. I recommended cachy, bazzite, and nobara as distros to look into, but as i barely game and dont game on linux, i wanted to ask for some advice. Ive already told them about the kernel-level anticheat issue, but tbh i dont have a good understanding of linux gaming beyond a high level overview. What are the things i should be looking up and information i should be looking for to understand how to help them get everything set up right? I understand gpu drivers can be an issue, but i havent done gpu driver troubleshooting in years. My main experience of learning things about linux is manpages and info files and reading mailing lists and archforums/wiki (i dont use arch btw).
What would be the best way for me to educate myself in order to help them?
I’m simple. I don’t use steam. I launched a windows game from bottles. I installed bottles from flatpak/flathub. bottles is a wine launcher that allows you to configure individual environments for each game or program.
bottles is OK with windows app, but heroic launcher seems better suited to games (you can add external exe to it)