Gaming on Linux

[Paul Boniol]

My son is getting into gaming, and I'm interested in getting a Linux install he can try out. Unfortunately I had to miss the recent meeting where we had a gaming presentation.

My son mentioned Steam. I see there is a Linux Beta that people say will run the Windows games he mentioned. I tried it on my former Linux install, but it completely freaked out. I looked, Wayland, so possibly that. But also having tried the Ubuntu provided Nvidia video drivers a few years ago, I think that started the whole thing where the system was unstable. I had to completely uninstall, and the system was never completely stable again. So I'm somewhat snake bit on trying to play with it. (Again possibly the Wayland combo.)

Also interested in Twitch live streaming him and his friends playing. Just started looking into that but see people have gotten it working.

Was there any documentation from the recent meeting? Any suggestions?

---Paul.

[Greg Donald]

On Tue, May 30, 2023 at 2:24 AM Paul Boniol <paul....@gmail.com> wrote:
> My son mentioned Steam.

Have you considered a Steam Deck? It's everything you'd ever want in
a Linux gaming platform. Works great on my big screen.

https://store.steampowered.com/steamdeck

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Greg Donald

[Paul Boniol]

A steam Deck looks interesting. Can it do Twitch Live streaming?  I see the dock has 3 USB.... He'd be looking to plug in a full keyboard, mouse, camera, and headset? He and his friends are already doing that.

Paul

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[Kent Perrier]

If that is the direction he wants to go, a Win-tindo system might be the best. Unless he is totally on board with the limitations that Linux brings to the table, specially with respect to nVidia drivers. The Steam Deck had done good things for gaming on Linux, but live streaming and such is still pretty much a Windows platform thing.  Luke and Linus at LTT did their Linux gaming challenge and, IIRC, streaming and co-op gaming was still an issue. This is their summary video, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rlg4K16ujFw. While it is 18 months old I don't know that the landscape has changed that much.

Kent

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[Greg Donald]

On Tue, May 30, 2023 at 9:30 AM Paul Boniol <paul....@gmail.com> wrote:
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> A steam Deck looks interesting. Can it do Twitch Live streaming?

Not sure, I've never tried. It's a Linux distro underneath, running
on some decent hardware, you can install and run whatever you like.


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[Michael]

Probably not in the cards being you/he is just starting out. But you could eventually look into a 2 computer setup. One computer dedicated for gaming, one dedicated for streaming. I mean you could set up a couple year old gaming laptop potentially just to run the stream side of things.  

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[Michael L]

I haven't tried it out (because I'm not a gamer) or spent hours reviewing, BUT adding the steam deck dock for $89 adds the following:

• HDMI 2.0
• DisplayPort 1.4
• USB-C power delivery pass through
• Gigabit ethernet port
• 3x USB-A 3.1 Gen1 Ports

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• I haven't run video through a USB port (C or A) myself yet, but I'm guessing some on this email list have run video through USB-C and a (nonLinux) tech runs additional monitors off USB 3. 

Friends don't let friends and family use Microsoft, so this may help do things the right way, the Linux way.  Since the steam deck is over $800, the dock for an additional $89 sounds reasonable to me even though it's said to be overpriced.

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[Thomas Bartkus]

Really regret I missed the talk on linux gaming.

For what it's worth - I have 2 Windows games working apparently flawlessly under Steam/proton.

These are:  "Space Engine" and "BeamNG.drive"

No muss, no fuss. This is on MX Linux, AMD Ryzen. and nVidia.  MX Linux is a Debian distro.

In addition I have 3 other native linux games under Steam that also work fine.

Really amazing, though, to have regular graphics intensive Microsoft games that just work under linux.

[Michael L]

I see the steam deck dock was previously discussed; sorry to be redundant.

I don't remember much of gaming presentation on recent meetups; wouldn't mind seeing recording. 

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[Paul Boniol]

Update: For now, my son is using his older Windows laptop.

I recently backed up my / partition, and updated the display drivers to an appropriate Nvidia package. Fingers crossed, things appear to be working better than with the generic driver.

I have been able to run Steam Beta, and can now run the Windows games I bought many years back under Linux!

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[Michael L]

On the recent gaming discussion, this was presented at the Southeast Linux Fest June 10th,

https://youtu.be/MVtob7Ty8VQ

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