The online multiplayer for the original version of Modern Warfare and other older games still works fine on Linux and even has community modded maps and modes.
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Those Steam Machines are just normal PCs. There should be no reason why you couldn't dualboot windows to play those few games that do not work on Linux.
The reason is, I don't wanna.
There isn't any game I want to play bad enough to install malware on my device.
I have heard that Windows tends to 'nuke' the EFI boot partition if it's shared with Linux. I'm not sure if it's valid to have two EFI partitions on the same disk, but if the box can handle a second EFI boot partition, that would be a safer option.
There is also the issue that normal windows shutdown does not mean shutdown, but "hibernate". In this state, touching any of the partitions the windows was previously using could corrupt them if mounted in Linux. (The same applies in reverse, and would be even more dangerous.) This doesn't prevent dual-booting, but some care should be taken that the swiched-from-OS was actually shutdown.
Windows is like the selfish little kid that won't play well with others if they aren't picked first.
If I recall that was a bug. Generally windows does not randomly start rewriting boot partitions unless maybe you put it into repair mode from the boot menu and you have both partitions on the same disk.
Note that you can disable the hibernate shutdown (called fast startup) in windows in the control panel. IIRC it's in control panel > startup > fast startup.
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My main game console right now is one of those little gaming boxes you can buy on Amazon for about $400, where I have installed NixOS + Jovian to get the "SteamOS" interface.
I really like it. It really does feel like a "game console"; usually when I've made my own console using Linux, it always feels kind of janky. For example, RetroPie on the Raspberry Pi is pretty cool, but it doesn't feel like a proper commercial product, it feels like a developer made a GUI to launch games.
I have like 750 games on Steam that I have hoarded over the years, in addition to the Epic Games Store and GOG, which can be installed with Heroic, and the fact that I can play them on a "console" instead of a computer makes it much easier to play in my living room or bedroom. It even works fine with the Xbox One controllers; I use the official Microsoft USB dongle to minimize latency, it works great.
I think there actually is a chance that Valve could really be a real competitor, if not a winner.
I have one of the higher-end beelinks. Super small, quiet, doesn't get hot and I can play modern AAA titles on it, driving my huge screen TV in my living room.
Can you quantify this? Which Beelink? Are you powering a 4K TV? When you talk about playing modern AAA games, which ones, and what settings do you run at?
Fortnite, Cyberpunk, Starfield, probably others I'm forgetting I believe the TV is 4K, yeah. It's the Beelink SER9 AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 12core/24thread AI PC Turbo Freq 5.1GHz
Linux gaming is best gaming.
Lutris my beloved
Fortnite can’t be played on Linux?
The CEO has a wierd hate boner for Linux. Like it would be one thing if it was just anti cheat but he like personally hates Linux. It's weird.
There was binary for UT2k4 that never made it to Steam for no good reason. Fuck Tim Sweeney for delisting the Unreal franchise.
That’s dumb. Steam needs competition.
wdym? fortnite is owned by epic games. that is steam's competition
We just said Epic doesn’t like Linux. I want a Linux compatible competitor to Steam.
I run Heroic Games Launcher and it works well, but support should be native
And apart from that, Fortnite makes money through in app purchases or micro transactions, not games sales. Improving their store would be huge
Probably because of anti cheat.
It's because the CEO is a weird corporate ghoul
So, it could be. Like, there’s no reason that the program its self couldn’t run through a comparability layer like wine or proton.
It’s just that it, like many other big multi-player live service shooters, it requires kernel level “anti cheat” programs. Basically programs that run at the lowest level of your system and check what’s running on the system, making sure the user isn’t running any cheats or altering how the game runs to cheat. They need to be at the lowest layer to prevent programs below them spoofing the checks they are running. So if they detect that they’re not running at the lowest level, they tell the game not to run, or at least, not to allow the player to join online matches.
These could theoretically could run through a compatibility layer, but then they wouldn’t be running at the lowest layer of the system, defeating the point of them. They would have to run natively on Linux, and the companies that make them have not made versions that run natively on Linux.
The actual efficacy of these anti cheat systems is dubious, as there is still cheating in games that use them, and they’re super invasive, being basically spywear. But they’re required by a handful of major games.
I think if the steam machine is a huge success like we think it will be and a large Linux playerbase emerges it will happen eventually. No way they would just lose out on all that profit.
You can already get a decent generic brand mini gaming PC for like $380 with a Ryzen 7 7840HS, which has a 780M that is twice as powerful as the Steam Deck’s GPU and a significantly faster CPU. I have my doubts that Valve can pull off making a mini PC 2x as powerful as that for like $500. I’m guessing it’ll probably be more like $700-$800.
I like the idea of the Steam Machine, but it won’t be worth it to me at that price for a HTPC and PC games I’d be playing on the couch. A cheaper mini PC sounds like a better fit.
Steam machines are not aimed toward pc gamers... they are aimed to convert console peasants.
honestly. I'm still impressed by my 2020 laptop that was around 700£ with a 3060.
yhea, the keys are falling out and the battery barely holds charge, but as a gaming pc? it can play everything at "good enough" levels. I'm satisfied with CP2077. feels like there's a lot of diminishing returns past that price point.
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