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Linux is now the best gaming system. ｜ fernvenue's Blog
blog.fernvenue.comWhen it comes to gaming on Linux, many many many people’s understanding stil remains in the Jurassic era. For the past few years, I’ve been using Linux as my main operating system for both work and gaming. From my personal experience, the gaming experience on Linux is far superior to that of macOS and Windows. I know I know…whenever I mention this, there are always some old-school individuals who come out to say that Linux’s driver configuration is complex, its game support is not rich enough, and its compatibility issues are significant, among other problems. In this article, I will directly address these issues and let everyone understand how much the gaming experience on Linux has developed by 2025.
Huh… I just installed and played Anno 1800 on my Bazzite PC a month or two ago with no issue whatsoever. Played great.
Yeah, the secret here is Bazzite honestly. If a game will run on Linux, then it’ll run with minimal setup on Bazzite.
Nobara too.
I cant remember the last time I had to futz with anything to get a game to work, been well over a year. The games just work. Only extra step compared to windows is the one time effort upon installing steam to enable steam play and set the default proton version to experimental. Experimental has run everything for me, flawlessly, for like a year now.
I’m sure theres still the occasional, rare game that might need some tweaking/setup/patch/whatever to get going… but thats something you run into on windows from time to time as well, so its hardly a ding against linux.
I had no issue getting to run gr wildlands on lutris but even the 3 step setup was not worth it for how shit the game was.
Thanks, I’ll give Bazzite a try. Hadn’t heard of it before and it didn’t come up in my search results when trying to find out what gaming in Linux entails these days. Back in the days Linux gaming was done straight in Wine or, if you wanted to fork over some money, WineX (later Cedega).
Bazzite, and Proton over Wine (like 99% of the time). Pretty much everything works. Check Protondb.com for instructions for individual games if any of them are giving you trouble. Sometimes you just need to add a command to your Steam launch option or something. But that’s pretty rare.
I also keep up with the most recent version of GE-Proton as it’ll usually work if the regular version doesn’t. Every now and then (usually older Windows games), Wine might work better. Or something like Lutris or Bottles.
But the overwhelming majority of games “just work” through Steam with Bazzite.
Ubisoft games that use their launcher can be annoying, but these days they usually work no problem. I don’t think there was anything specific I needed to do for Anno 1800. I don’t even think I logged in? Unless I’m thinking of a different game, I’m pretty sure I skipped the ubisoft login and it still let me play the game?