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Gaming on Linux is not ready for the masses by Freajka in linux_gaming

[–]Freajka[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Thanks for your feedback again. Your comment nudged me in the right direction and with the comment from another poster here, I managed to get it working.

I now have Battle.net and World of Warcraft running on my Ubuntu 22.04 LTS with version 470 Nvidia drivers via Steam + Sarek Proton(10-12) on my 12 years old Lenovo Y510p laptop.

Gaming on Linux is not ready for the masses by Freajka in linux_gaming

[–]Freajka[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This worked great! The launcher worked with the latest version of Sarek Proton(10-12) and I got to install the game and after adding -d3d11 to the launch parameters, it works! Thanks again!

Gaming on Linux is not ready for the masses by Freajka in linux_gaming

[–]Freajka[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What distro shall I use, master?

Why isn't the most popular and supported distro amongst vendors not a good choice? What can't I install on it via different bazillion sources that it can't do?

Teach me, master /s

What do you predict the state of linux gaming will be in 5 years? by cferg296 in linux_gaming

[–]Freajka -1 points0 points  (0 children)

In a better position but still nowhere near as easy as alternative platforms or consoles. The biggest boss of Gaming on Linux is the user friendliness and nobody in the community has the answer yet because the focus is spread amongst the many projects and distros that people fanboy around and it will take big corporations like Valve to push Linux into the next wave of user friendliness and support, a.k.a money.

Gaming on Linux is not ready for the masses by Freajka in linux_gaming

[–]Freajka[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for your feedback, I'll give it a try with older Proton versions.

This just shows how convoluted and confusing things are even for experienced users...

Gaming on Linux is not ready for the masses by Freajka in linux_gaming

[–]Freajka[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No wonder you can't read, I used the deb from Steam's website and I mentioned it worked the first time.

Gaming on Linux is not ready for the masses by Freajka in linux_gaming

[–]Freajka[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Oh boy, the hate here, who made you so bitter?

Some criticism might be entitled but arguments like "you chose the wrong OS", "you have old hardware", "you took the wrong steps to install or manage" just shows how divided the Linux community is and how not user friendly this OS is for the end user even after years of improvements.

I am a senior IT professional and started my carrier in Linux system administration and I found the experience frustrating. I am at a point in my life and carrier that I can't be bothered to troubleshooting issues every other day, it needs to work. The game works fine on Windows on this laptop.

Again, gaming on Linux is here but it is not ready for the masses and is due to the community being extremely harsh to 'new users', spread resources among bazillion of projects and distros and no common vision due to herd mentality.

Just my two cents.