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.
EDIT: THIS IS WHY LEMMY IS BETTER THAN REDDIT. HUMAN CONVERSATION. THANK YOU ALL
You didn't mention it in your post, did you make sure you set proton to run for non-verified games in steam settings? Also did you try proton experimental and/or Proton-GE?
HUMANKIND seems to be a mixed bag but the others are reported to run well.
I did indeed try Proton. Proton is basically why I even bother to install Steam on Linux these days, but Humankind, a game I very much enjoy, does "almost" run. It'll go to a black screen, and then it'll freeze. I've tried different combinations of games and settings (incl. Proton settings)and launch settings, but not a lot seem to want to launch or work.
Again, I've been a general Linux user for years, and I'll keep using it, but the dream is to completely ditch Windows. It doesn't look like we're quite there yet (to me, at least).
Note that I'm not making this post to hate on Linux or Fedora, even though it may seem a little... ya. I just want to game without booting into Win 11, and it doesn't let me - yet.
Also, since you're already on Fedora, you should check out Nobara, which is gaming-optimized Fedora-based distro made by GloriousEggroll, the guy who makes Proton-GE.
They said Proton-GE btw, which is a custom build of Proton by GloriousEggroll, which has a bunch of tweaks to make various games run, or run better.
https://github.com/GloriousEggroll/proton-ge-custom#overview
Proton-GE (or Lutris with Wine-GE) is what you really should be using, if you intend to game Linux.