@robvv @tuubi You can actually run the firmware update via Wine: https://gist.github.com/archeYR/d687de5e484ce7b45d6a94415a04f3dc [External Link]

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SuperTux and SuperTuxCart are pretty fun alternatives to Mario and Mario Kart, definitely worth checking out IMO.

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@monyarm Out of curiosity, which one is it exactly? Because most XP-era games work well in Wine.

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@Joom: Why not just run pure Wayland? In my experience, most games seem to be working fine with Proton GE, at least on an AMDGPU+KDE multimon setup. Just need to set PROTON_ENABLE_WAYLAND=1

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Would this help with games which don't support HiDPI Screens? Still lots of SDL-based games are nearly impossible to play on HiDPI-Screens without manually chaning the resolution.

Personally, I would use gamescope for that.

Gamescope is okay, but it uses only FSR1, which is ancient. Instead of Gamescope (and Lossless Scaling), a better option is to use Optiscaler, which supports upto FSR4 (if your GPU supports it), or FSR 3.1.4. It even supports DLSS and XeSS! Basically it looks at whatever method your game is using, and allows you to inject the DLLs for whichever scaler you'd like to use, so it's pretty flexible, and gives you a better result compared to Gamescope.

Of course, this is assuming your game has a native scaling option.. if not, then you'd have to resort to using Gamescope. But in such a situation, there's a good chance there may be a mod available for your game to add higher resolution/scaling natively. And for old DirectDraw games you could use cnc-draw.

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Happy Birthday! Genuinely surprised you've been around since 16 years ago! Although I've been gaming on Linux for about as long, I only came across your site a few years ago - mainly I guess due to the rise of Proton, the Steam Deck and clones.

In any case, gaming on Linux definitely has come a long way along. I recall back then being able to play only older games like Age of Empires 2, Oblivion, Diablo 2, and emulated games like Crystal Caves (DOS). Attempting to play anything new/AAA was next to impossible. Since it was around that time that I switched to Linux for good, I missed out on a TON of good games that came out in the 12+ years that followed. But thanks to the viability of Linux gaming these days, I'm finally catching up on all the games that I missed out on. Literally every Steam sale, I'm buying something new. Only problem is that I no longer have the time to play all these games! So ironically, the games that I spend most of my time these days on are the (updated) classics that I used to play 16 years ago: AoE 2 DE, Oblivion Remastered, Project Diablo 2, Crystal Caves HD etc.. XD

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To add to that ^, GNOME devs HATE themeing, and actively go out of their way to discourage people from it. In fact, they even went to the extent of making an entire website for it: https://stopthemingmy.app/ [External Link]

This extreme user hostility is why I boycott the GNOME ecosystem.

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As a brand new Bazzite user (and Linux user in general), it's really disappointing to hear this news about Bazzite. So, with that, is there a distro that provides the same kind of experience that Bazzite does that I could try out? I'm particularly interested in a distro that is similar to the security that Bazzite offers (immutable distro, OpenSUSE, etc.)....are there any alternatives anyone could recommend for a Linux n00b?

@AlienOne: There's PikaOS, which is based on Debian, and is pretty full-featured, immutable, gaming (and general purpose) distro. Main limitation right now is that they do not have a handheld edition yet.

There's also ChimeraOS, which is an Arch based Bazzite-like replacement. It can boot straight to Steam Big Picture, and is also compatible with multiple handhelds.

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fabertawe:
I modded Fallout 3 "by hand" and whilst it was good fun, it was also very time consuming and I'd rather do FNV using Nexus Mods! So still waiting...

FWIW, Vortex runs fine under Proton, just need to install .NET 6 runtimes. I install both the runtimes and Vortex in the same prefix as my game, and launch it via Protontricks. With this method there's no permission issues, no need to symlink, no need for SteamTinkerLaunch etc.

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@TroNing HDR works fine under KDE, or under Gamescope. At least on AMD it does, not sure about nVidia.

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