I use Nvidia hardware on Linux Mint and don’t have any issues really. Nothing that a simple glance at ProtonDB can’t usually fix.

You can’t play Kernel Level Anti Cheat games, like Valorant or BF6, but you can play some other anti cheat games like Marvel Rivals.

Performance and user friendliness experience are going to vary, distro to distro. If you’re not used to Linux, use a user friendly one, like Mint.

I haven’t had any reason to complain, but I didn’t play a lot of KLAC games before I switched to Linux Mint back in January.

Other than KLAC, I’ve only had one game not work with proton (even if I have to use launch options). It was a niche indie obscure new release though, so I’m sure, eventually, it’ll work.

Linux isn’t as difficult to learn as some people think, but you still have to learn it. I’ve not had much issues with it, and I’d never used Linux until January. I do know a micro bit more than average about PCs though. Like really, not all that much, but above average for sure.

Whatever that’s worth to you.

Originally posted by Chaosolous:

I use Nvidia hardware on Linux Mint and don’t have any issues really. Nothing that a simple glance at ProtonDB can’t usually fix.

You can’t play Kernel Level Anti Cheat games, like Valorant or BF6, but you can play some other anti cheat games like Marvel Rivals.

Performance and user friendliness experience are going to vary, distro to distro. If you’re not used to Linux, use a user friendly one, like Mint.

I haven’t had any reason to complain, but I didn’t play a lot of KLAC games before I switched to Linux Mint back in January.

Other than KLAC, I’ve only had one game not work with proton (even if I have to use launch options). It was a niche indie obscure new release though, so I’m sure, eventually, it’ll work.

Linux isn’t as difficult to learn as some people think, but you still have to learn it. I’ve not had much issues with it, and I’d never used Linux until January. I do know a micro bit more than average about PCs though. Like really, not all that much, but above average for sure.

Whatever that’s worth to you.

First of all, thank you for your kind reply! I used Linux many years ago, with Ubuntu—I'm talking about the Windows Vista era, if I'm not mistaken—so you can imagine it was love at first sight for me. Ubuntu was a rocket ship compared to Vista, but I was then forced to abandon it for gaming. Today, the situation has changed drastically, but I know that in some types of games, some cutscenes might not start! If this problem still exists today, it would be serious, because if I buy a game with only basic Linux, I'll never know if that game might have cutscenes that I won't be able to see or not.

This clip is recorded in Bazzite:
https://gtm.steamproxy.vip/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3592024315

So yeah, Linux gaming is pretty amazing these days. Not everything works flawlessly, but more things work than don't.

Usually if cutscene do not work, you can just go into the settings option on Steam and switch proton versions, and that will be enough to get they working. (Download Proton Plus, use it to download GE Proton latest and keep it updated, reboot Steam, then set the game to use that version of proton).

Only game that gives me fits is Nioh 2, and getting it to play videos just required me setting it to GE proton 7.55 or something like that. Which makes sense, older game needed an older proton version.

I hear cachyOS you basically type two lines into the terminal and steam is fully configured for gaming

Originally posted by skOsH♥:

I hear cachyOS you basically type two lines into the terminal and steam is fully configured for gaming

You don't have to use terminal at all. In CachyOS, after you first install it, you get a welcome screen.

On that welcome window, you can click install apps, then install gaming packages, and it handles everything from there.

Originally posted by D. Flame:

Originally posted by skOsH♥:

I hear cachyOS you basically type two lines into the terminal and steam is fully configured for gaming

You don't have to use terminal at all. In CachyOS, after you first install it, you get a welcome screen.

On that welcome window, you can click install apps, then install gaming packages, and it handles everything from there.

Oh nice, I am glad theyre integrating the option into more distros.

Sometimes I like using the terminal and its still there, but yeah when using mint cinnamon I did the same thing and loaded stuff from the install apps section

The 'cutscenes not playing issue' has largely been resolved by using Glorious Eggroll, if I’m not mistaken.

It's gotten better over time, but it's still leagues away from Windows in various ways. If you aren't willing to adjust and learn new stuff related to it, I suggest sticking to Win 11. If you are, go for it. Keep in mind that gaming on a handheld is a lot more different than gaming on a desktop/laptop.

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Originally posted by D. Flame:

This clip is recorded in Bazzite:
https://gtm.steamproxy.vip/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3592024315

So yeah, Linux gaming is pretty amazing these days. Not everything works flawlessly, but more things work than don't.

Usually if cutscene do not work, you can just go into the settings option on Steam and switch proton versions, and that will be enough to get they working. (Download Proton Plus, use it to download GE Proton latest and keep it updated, reboot Steam, then set the game to use that version of proton).

Only game that gives me fits is Nioh 2, and getting it to play videos just required me setting it to GE proton 7.55 or something like that. Which makes sense, older game needed an older proton version.

I understand, thank you very much! But if I only use Linux for gaming, when I buy a new game that's just released and I don't know the story or plot, how can I tell if I'm missing out on cutscenes?

Thanks everyone for the replies

Originally posted by Adriano Ruggieri:

Originally posted by D. Flame:

This clip is recorded in Bazzite:
https://gtm.steamproxy.vip/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3592024315

So yeah, Linux gaming is pretty amazing these days. Not everything works flawlessly, but more things work than don't.

Usually if cutscene do not work, you can just go into the settings option on Steam and switch proton versions, and that will be enough to get they working. (Download Proton Plus, use it to download GE Proton latest and keep it updated, reboot Steam, then set the game to use that version of proton).

Only game that gives me fits is Nioh 2, and getting it to play videos just required me setting it to GE proton 7.55 or something like that. Which makes sense, older game needed an older proton version.

I understand, thank you very much! But if I only use Linux for gaming, when I buy a new game that's just released and I don't know the story or plot, how can I tell if I'm missing out on cutscenes?

You usually get a black screen with the audio playing, or you get a test pattern. So it is usually pretty obvious.

I'm running Linux exclusively, and I have no issues with my 2000+ game library. In fact, I actually think that Linux runs more Windows games via Proton out of the box than even modern Windows does, since old Windows game that don't like Windows 10/11 often "just work".

The only real issue is games with kernel-level anti-cheat, but I don't really play multiplayer, and I don't care at all about Valorant, Destiny 2, Call of Duty, or Fortnite, so it's not a problem for me. If you must play those games, you might want to stick with Windows, but overall I heartily recommend switching.

The cinematics issue with some games is easily resolved by just running them with Proton-GE. Getting GE is as simple as installing "Proton-UP" via Discovery Store or Bazaar or whatever your package manager is. Then use Proton-Up to grab the newest version of Proton-GE. Then on the game in question, go to properties > compatibility > and force it to use the version of Proton-GE you just downloaded. Your cinematics will now work, and you didn't need to use the scary terminal at all to do it.

Taking a glimpse at your game library, I don't see anything that I expect would give you any trouble.

Originally posted by Adriano Ruggieri:

I understand, thank you very much! But if I only use Linux for gaming, when I buy a new game that's just released and I don't know the story or plot, how can I tell if I'm missing out on cutscenes?

The cutscenes will literally not play, you will see black and it will feel like a bug.

That or you'll get an error message.

It's good practice to check ProtonDB for newly released games, to see how it's running for other people. Popular new releases will often get information pretty quickly. If you buy a game the minute it launches though, you'll just have to find out as you go into it, if it works. (Then you can go to ProtonDB and let everyone know how it runs, haha).

Like we've said before, it's also good practice to keep an updated version of Proton Glorious Eggroll on hand in your Proton selection files as well. I've found it often works when other version of Proton do not.

You can just do a web search for "Glorious Eggroll Proton Github" and it should show you the download page as one of the top results. It's a github.

The reason that Proton GE often works when other Proton layers don't, is because it's community driven. Which means that some stuff that Valve can't include in Proton, for whatever reason (often some legalese issue), the community does put inside of GE.

IIRC the videos in some games (especially older titles) not working properly, was often a result of Valve not having some kind of license or something for a certain codec, for whatever reason. GE includes the codec. Someone can correct me if I'm off on that, but I'm pretty sure that it's stuff like that, that makes GE work when official layers don't.

As I said, I've only had one game not work on Linux though, (other than games with KLAC, but even the ones I own, I don't play anymore). For the most part, Proton is pretty solid at allowing games to run on Linux.