Gaming on Linux, How openSUSE Stacks Up for Gamers
Posted by gabriel_3@reddit | linux | View on Reddit | 40 comments
Posted by gabriel_3@reddit | linux | View on Reddit | 40 comments
0riginal-Syn@reddit
I love me some openSUSE, even though I don't currently use it, but that was one generic article that focused on stuff that pretty much all distros are capable of and not on the finer points of openSUSE. At first, I thought it was just some lazy blogger on some tech news site, but then I realized it was on the openSUSE site. Luckily, their distro is much better than that article.
KsiaN@reddit
They did a few of those kind of posts lately and they are not aimed at us.
They are for the people that will flock Linux when Win10 EOLs later this year.
But it does read like a good shitpost, esp. concidering that Tumbleweed still only has 550 nvidia drivers in their repo.
Ubisoftsucksdick@reddit
Tbh the “why choose opensuse” just outlined what every distros can/does do already.
VirtualDenzel@reddit
Yeh sure. But open suse is really rock solid. Even with multiple monitors and having zypper as a package manager is nice.
It beats arch for sure when it comes to useability and friendlyness. And you get no flatpak or snap shit installed either.
Ezmiller_2@reddit
Nothing wrong with flatpaks as an alt vs huting down obscure tarballs only to get them untarred and finding out you need some source package that you can't find in the repos.
BinkReddit@reddit
Agreed. I dislike flatpaks and their bloat and use them as a last resort, but some vendors are less open source friendly and don't put much effort into making their software compatible with various library versions, so flatpak is the result.
Ubisoftsucksdick@reddit
Mint seems to hold the top spot for ease of use and user friendliness
VirtualDenzel@reddit
Yes, but mint has some issues (at least with my nodes that i use for gaming). Sure you can run mint aswell. Thats the beauty of linux. I swapped over on my main rig to dual boot opensuse / freebsd and never regretted leaving windows since.
Monii22@reddit
dual booting with freebsd? huh. how do you have that set up? im not too familiar with it, but want to try at some point
VirtualDenzel@reddit
Just bsd on a seperate disk, refind as boot loader to secure and swap around
Monii22@reddit
cool ^^ hows the experience using it? could it be used as a daily?
Ubisoftsucksdick@reddit
What issues? Been running mints for a few years and had zero issue with nvidia on it while gaming.
VirtualDenzel@reddit
I prefer amd for that matter. But mint had issues with my multimonitor setup, sometimes games would switch monitor fullscreen to another out of the blue. If i had to run a debian flavpr i would run debian itself with backports.
Stilgar314@reddit
I don't think is there to convince anyone, I think it's an article for potentially clueless OpenSuse newcomers to have all the relevant steps to game in the same page.
Ashged@reddit
Yeah, opensuse has strong points, like the out of the box btrfs snapshot based rollbacks, a nice gui setup/management toolkit, automated build system with community repos and using bleeding edge software with minimized risk of fubar for tumbleweed.
They mentioned one, barely. I love opensuse, but they are seriously running for some achiement in havin the worst marketing.
KianAhmadi@reddit
The thing I hate about Linux gaming is that you have to pay for it on Steam I want a free game
CNR_07@reddit
You literally don't have to pay for anything. You can pirate as much as you want.
KianAhmadi@reddit
The thing I hate about Linux gaming is that you have to pay for it on Steam I want a free game
Ezmiller_2@reddit
You should try MegaGlest
KianAhmadi@reddit
What is that
the-luga@reddit
Thanks but I still use Arch btw!
shogun77777777@reddit
No as impressive as Nix by the way
JacqueMorrison@reddit
TempleOS anyone?
shogun77777777@reddit
Hannah Montana Linux?
Ezmiller_2@reddit
Windows ME?
KianAhmadi@reddit
The thing I hate about Linux gaming is that you have to pay for it on Steam I want a free game
ForceBlade@reddit
The lack of knowledge in your comment is immense.
KianAhmadi@reddit
Ok then, how do you do space mraine 2 on linux for free i am genuinely curious
KamiIsHate0@reddit
The same way you do within windows?
KianAhmadi@reddit
The source is not compatible with linux
KamiIsHate0@reddit
Take a look at r/linux_gaming wiki and it will blow your mind. Also this.
KianAhmadi@reddit
Thx
ForceBlade@reddit
You torrent it bro. Just like you would on windows.
0KLux@reddit
Just pirate it, the same as windows.
ad-on-is@reddit
wdym? Oninux, you don't pay any more or less than on Windows.
Hypn0ticz@reddit
I swear as much as I love openSUSE their marketing feels like an S tier shitpost
jEG550tm@reddit
No thanks I like my distros to not abusively remove donation buttons
BigHeadTonyT@reddit
Tried Leap today. Came with kernel 6.4 and Mesa 23.3. I added a repo so I had 6.12 kernel installed. Mesa has not been updated. Something happened in june 2024. Only community packages available for newer Mesa. I installed one such repo/package. It replaced 5 files. Rebooted, DE refused to load, tried to remove that package, it removed half the packages on the system...Not a great experience. I never got to installing Steam, obviously. Not had that experience before.
I would go for Tumbleweed any day of the week.
webmdotpng@reddit
Noice! But I still on Pop!_OS, their COSMIC alpha is very good.
Intelligent-Stone@reddit
That's already doable on other distros, and it's a pretty generic article and you don't optimize system with gamemode.