Thanks for the warning. I am currently running Fedora (because “it just works”) and I’m drowning in bugs and incompatibilities.

I was considering Bazzite because of all the recommendations, but considering my luck (and probably my hardware combination) I’d probably end up just like you described.

Looks really nice! I’ll check that out!

Could be the AMD CPU (had a few kernel issues with that CPU, for example on anything newer than 6.10 the laptop doesn’t wake from sleep, that’s a well-documented issue either with the CPU or the chipset), could be the mobile 4070, could be because I’m using Fedora (some of the issues I have like the one with performance randomly dropping to single-digit FPS and that not clearing up with a reboot are reported quite often on Fedora), could be something entirely different.

I’m on a budget gaming laptop (Lenovo LOQ), could be that they messed up something there, don’t know.

I haven’t even touched HDR so far, because the base function isn’t there.

Games on Steam don’t tend to give me trouble, for some reason it works better there, but I don’t have 300 or so free games on Steam.

Sad that you don’t read replies, because what you are saying makes a ton of sense, and I have questions.

I don’t really have the time to try out 20 distros. I used Kubuntu quite a lot before, but I had issues with it, so I wanted to switch away. I tried out Mint, PopOS and Fedora, due to common recommendations and Fedora is the only one that really caught my fancy.

But “tried out” means “installed it, ran one game on steam, done”. Don’t really have time for more. Since then I have regretted choosing Fedora.

What would be a good distro if I want to game, but I also need it as a general purpose distro? I don’t want to have to dual-boot between a gaming distro and my regular distro where I code and run all my regular stuff on.

I’d also like to have something that doesn’t update the kernel all that fast, since my laptop doesn’t wake from sleep on a kernel newer than 6.10 (at least on Fedora 41). It’s a documented bug that doesn’t have a fix yet, apparently.

Yes they do, there’s a plugin for that.

You are confusing who you are talking to.

Fair point. But my point still stands since quite a few peertube instances do the same.

Just the right kind of humour.

People with selection bias who lucked out that their setup doesn’t cause issues and who then think they are somehow morally better people because of that.

It’s basically the Gospel of Prosperity but for Linux.

Yes, my CPU is an AMD Ryzen 7 7435HS which doesn’t have an iGPU. My Nvidia 4070 is the only GPU present on my system.

My GPU driver version is 570.153.02, which is the currently newest production version. When installing it, I used this guide: https://rpmfusion.org/Howto/NVIDIA

I tried Wine-GE-Proton8-26, GE-Proton-latest, Proton Experimental and Proton 9 (Beta). I tried each of these options with Esync and Fsync enabled and disabled and every combination of these two options.

I tried enabling/disabling VKD3D and DXVK-NVAPI.

And of course I tried rebooting.

I found quite a few people with similar issues online, but never with a fix that actually works. Most of the people with the same issues don’t get any replies at all, and if they do it’s some condescending posts from people who lucked out and don’t have the same issue and think that that makes them better people or something.

(For context, I am a software developer, I programmed for embedded Linux devices for 12 years now. I used Linux as my work OS for the last 7 years until I changed jobs half a year ago and my new company mandates Windows and now I have to deal with WSL. I use Linux as my main private OS for the last 3 years. I compiled kernels for embedded devices quite a few times. It’s fair to say that I do have a little bit of experience when it comes to troubleshooting Linux issues, and I’ve gone through a lot of troubleshooting.)

Because Youtube autotranslates these stupid titles. I hate that, since it makes it really hard to know whether you are going to understand the video before clicking it.

I so wish that was the case.

Half the games I tried on Heroic don’t run and most of them run at <5 FPS even though I own a 4070 and the games I try to run are e.g. Bioshock. Number 1. The original, non-remastered one.

And stuff like Dawn of War crashes once I start the game, same as Bioshock 2, Neverwinter Nights and quite a few other older titles.

And even games that generally work fine (like Shadow of Mordor) sometimes randomly decide to run at 2 FPS.

If anyone has advice about what could cause that, I’d be grateful.

I’m on Fedora 41, running newest proprietary Nvidia drivers.

It’s actually Ubuntu with the default Arch wallpaper.

Because that’s people not using Arch Linux but “Arch Linux”.

The game has been released 4 years ago. An average worker in the US works 1770 hours a year.

10 developers working full time over 4 years (and this doesn’t even include the time they spent building the initial release) would work a total of ~70 000 hours, not “hundreds or thousands” of hours.

In fact, even thousands of hours would be only a single man year.

They’ve released 23 content updates so far, bugfix patches are probably much more. Even just building, superficially testing and deploying a release easily takes 4-5h. And this game is not just a plain and simple flat screen game, but one that supports SteamVR, something that’s not remotely trivial on Linux.

Even a single non-trivial bug can cost 20h of total work time from support handling the report, a dev reproducing it, the bug going trough refinement, bugfixing, code review, testing, deployment and so on.

I guess you haven’t worked in a real company before and don’t know how project management and processes work. Stuff takes a lot of time.

And believing that Unity just magically abstracts all OS-specific bugs away is very naive.

And it’s ridiculous to claim that they are dropping Linux support after 4(!) years because they are too incompetent to figure out how to support Linux. Obviously they could support Linux just fine from a technological standpoint.

Why do people attribute decisions like that to the competence of the programmers? This is a business decision, nothing else. Most likely, some MBA looked over the numbers, saw a few hundreds or thousands of hours logged for tasks related to supporting Linux, and decided that Proton was good enough. Most likely, no programmer was even asked whether Linux support should be dropped.

And yes, even if you know what you are doing, every build going out to tens of thousands of active players needs to be tested, and that costs time and thus money, which is something every experienced cross platform developer should know.