But… a higher FOV increases the amount of content that needs to be rendered by your device? If your average is 35fps it will swamp your computer, probably why they capped it.

I actually tried to run it on debian, but it didn’t want to start.

SteamOS is Arch based, Debian is well Debian based. Makes sense for it not to work, shame nonetheless.

You can promise support for ’xyz’ distro and advertise that which is what Larian is doing however, if they said they supported Debian for example than that would open a whole can of issues as a lot of distributions are Debian based.

Would be nice to have Debian and Arch be the foundation for Linux based game development and make that the standard throughout all the other distros like SteamOS, LinuxMint or PopOS. Fedora is kinda in their own world I suppose.

it sounds like you have to be in a public lobby first, then hop into private for them to get your id. Can they get your id without ever being in the lobby or any contact at all?

This is not true, if you knew a persons social-club username you could search for the ID associated with it. I can’t find many tools online except for this one no idea of this works or not, I’m sure there are guides to obtain R*ID’s elsewhere.

While private lobbies certainly help weed out the bullshit, if a modder was determined enough they could copy your Rockstar ID and use that to follow you from lobby to lobby regardless of its privacy restrictions.

Logging someones Rockstar ID might as well make them your friend, depending on the mod menu they could receive notifications on when you’re online/offline.

Here is a common mod menu that was popular prior to the anti-cheat update, I think they have shutdown now.

Rockstar botched that system, I can attest as I used numerous different mod menus on GTA V Online, most well developed menus will let you alter yours (and others) in-game reputation by spamming the commend/report functions.

Spawning in UFO’s an such was the highlight of GTA V Online for me, haven’t touched the game since I moved to Linux, I hear it’s broken due to the new anti-cheat.

Don’t use Debian for a gaming PC. Period.

Why? I run Debian on my computer with absolutely no issues gaming.

Stick with an Ubuntu derivative like Mint or Kubuntu. It’s your best bet.

These are all derivatives of Debian in the end.

Pro-tip: buy it on steam, open it so that Steam recognizes play time, write heinous review, issue refund.

If you’re gaming download Steam and read into Proton. Proton is Steam’s compatibility layer for Windows Games, it allows them to run on Linux.

https://protondb.com/ will be your best friend.

I just install ProtonGE from AUR and then it is a magic option in Steam. Idk why we need whole programs for this

It’s not that easy for everyone, Debian users you have to do it manually or through a third party application like ProtonUp-Qt.

Lame……

Kinda late to the conversation but always follow the documentation for your distro, if you choose Debian find Debians guide to installing drivers, if you choose Arch follow Arch’s documentation and so on, Nvidia themselves supply .run files for Linux drivers however some distro’s don’t work with these so just be careful.

I learned this the hard way when I used Nvidia’s .run files and wondered why games kept stuttering every couple seconds, learned this lesson pretty quick.

We’re doing our part!

the 1% that don’t happen to be all the major multiplayer games people acturally want to play

Whats this suppose to mean? That 1% just tells Linux users that the developers & publishers simply don’t care enough about their product.

Linux massively beats Windows

History has been made.

You just said you’ve never used a Steam Deck.

Correct, have yet to touch SteamOS.

Multiple people have told you why what you’re saying is ridiculous.

How is what I said ridiculous? Is the market all of a sudden no longer Windows dominated?

I get it, SteamOS is essentially Steams Big Picture mode locked down however, the minute someone wants to mod one of their games using software made for Windows that they find on Nexus mods or Se7enSins they’ll run into issues or a novel of documentation for a workaround.

The vast majority of people don’t want to sit and troubleshoot for hours on end for a single mod, they want it to work out of the gate and that’s where SteamOS/Linux currently falls flat.

I literally have no idea what I’m talking about

Care to at all elaborate then?

Last time I checked Windows still dominates the market on personal desktop/laptop computers, most people don’t want to sit and read documentation on how to get specific software to work with their device, they just want it to work without hassle.

The Steam Deck kicked off great however, I see people flocking to the Windows alternatives like the ASUS ROG Ally because they don’t want to deal with Linux or the Bash shell.

Edit; I don’t know why this is being downvoted, I haven’t touched SteamOS so I’m comparing it to Debian 12 where BASH knowledge is necessary.

If ProtonDB says that it’s working then it’s working, most likely something ain’t right with your setup.