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:
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CPU: Ryzen 5 4600G
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GPU: RX 6700 XT
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RAM: 32 GB 3200 MHz
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SSD: 4 TB M.2
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I expected Civilization VI to run fine, and… it did. although anti-aliasing decided not to work.
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Humankind, does not run. At all.
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Broforce does in fact run perfectly fine!
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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.
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Red Dead Redemption 2, hahaha no.
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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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Freedom requires sacrifices. I research if a game will run before buying it. I don’t but the ones that won’t, because freedom is more important to me.
I think your goal should be to do the opposite. Run GNU/Linux as your daily and switch to Windows only when you have to. Eventually you will become better at solving issues and will be able to run more games without using Windows. Maybe in a few years you will even decide that you no longer care about those remaining games that don’t run and ditch Windows entirely.
That’s fine. Most people don’t care about freedom, security and privacy, so they aren’t willing to spend the extra effort to get those things. But it also means that publishers don’t have a good reason to stop abusing their users with DRM and spyware, since people will buy those games anyway. They don’t have to publish for GNU/Linux, because people are fine with running Windows and not being in control of their computers.