Quoting: tuubiI suppose one might want to play around with gamescope and Wayland etc, and you'll get the new bells and whistles quicker on some other distro, but no game actually requires that stuff as far as I know. I think Mint is a perfectly fine distro for most gamers.

A lot of old games (and perhaps even newer) crash when they loose focus "Alt+Tab". Or their resolution is limited and they can not run in fullscreen. Gamescope is necessary for this games and it is a solution we needed for a long time for Wine.
I remember I opened an issue on WIneHQ several years ago for this feature:
https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=39768

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What distribution you will advice for gaming?
From my experience, a good Linux distribution for gaming will be a distribution that will provide all packages needed for gaming:
- Proprietary and open source graphic drivers
- recent kernel
- wifi/bluetooth drivers
- wine/wine-staging
- 32 and 64 bits libraries
- Steam
- all emulators
- flatpak
- Lutris, Heroic...
- Gamescope, Mangohud
which manages dependencies efficiently: for example, if I install Lutris, also install wine, the 32 and 64 bit libraries, install the sdl libraries etc... So that the user subsequently does not have any messages error linked to a missing library when launching his games. And packages should be updated regularly.

At the moment I have successfully tested the following distributions for the game:
- Manjaro (ARCH)
- openSUSE Tumbleweed

This two distributions are rolling release so you always use recent and stable packages.

As an Ubuntu user for many years, I would not recommend this Linux distribution for gaming, I have experienced a lot of problems with unsatisfied dependencies, app packages not available, issues unresolved and its management of PPAs is complicated and degrades its stability.
Then I often encountered difficulties when updating from one version to another.


What about Fedora? I would be interested in your feedback.

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Wine/Proton/DXVK are such performant today's on Linux, unlike native Linux games which age poorly: library dependency problems or are not up to date because the developers do not maintain them.
At the same time I put myself in the developers' shoes, it's much more economical and less complicated to maintain a single version of the game, the one for Windows, and to make it Wine/Proton/DXVK compatible.

This is also a perverse effect of the effectiveness of WIne/Proton/DXVK, is that it does not encourage the development of native Linux games. But the main thing is that Linux gamers can simply play their games, without worrying if it's a Windows version or not and without having to tinker too much like we did only a few years ago.

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Quoting: tpauIf you still have games that are only available on physical media or isos, you should ask gog or the publisher for a digital edition.
Cdrom and DVD are deteriorating and falling apart over time.

Another advantage is that GOG has already improved the game for you:
- game updated with latest patches
- compatibility with modern OS/Hardware configuration
You will save time, fewer adjustments, they have already done the work for you.
And don't forget that you'll find plenty of script installers on Lutris for older games that also make your Linux gamer's life easier.

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Quoting: kantanSome active fork for Citra ?

Happily for us, this Emulator is quite mature, it is stable and has a good compatibility.
But we need a team to maintain the code.

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Quoting: NathanaelKStottlemyer

Quoting: jordicomaI build one, and it works. But now we also need someone to continue with citra like this. There are no other 3ds emulators at the level of citra (for now).

I have citra's source code if anyone wants it...

Not necessary, latest Yuzu and Citra sources/builds are available on Internet Archives, same for others open source projects like re3 or revc.

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Steam has a similar service with Geforce Now, but you do not have access to all your games, it depends on devs authorizations.
Soon we will no more need a gaming console, nor install or tweak games, to play games on Linux, we will just need a good internet connection. And we will no more need to buy expensive hardware, like graphic card, with Geforce Now you can play on your TV in 4K/60fps/RayTracing if you have a good internet connection.

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Quoting: PenglingThis particular one's just an emulated PlayStation title.

Are you sure about that? There was a true Windows version out in 2000:
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metal_Gear_Solid

The PC version (GOG) looks better on this vidéo than the screenshots on Steam:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7bOgTcCq9A

Are the GOG version different from Steam one?

Another video to compare PS1 vs PC (Steam) version:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awtK6JKXX0U

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDDinYw5UTs (Steam vs GOG vs Duckstation PS1)

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I will buy this game when it will be remastered with a quality as good as Tomb Raider I-II-II remasters.
For the moment, gaming experience MGS1 is better with PS1 Duckstation emulator.

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Very interesting! a Playstation game on GOG!

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