I’m pretty sure compatibility mode in Windows hasn’t actually done anything after Windows 7. There were a few games and programs I had running on Win7 using the XP compatibility mode, but using the same setting on Win10 did nothing.

Windows 10 also seemed to be the time many games started needing community made patches to run even if the game worked fine on 7.

He did mention a handful of them “SteamOS like” distros at the start, and hopefully he covers Bazzite in the future.

But as I said before your average gamer wants a Valve backed up OS because they trust Valve more than open source devs they hardly know of.

I would like more people to try distros like Bazzite but just getting people to try any form of Linux is still a stepping stone imo.

Yeah I agree with you most the time.

I was gonna give him credit for talking positively about the Discover app store, but he also made the whole flatpak vs native package thing sound way more complicated than it really is…

Alright I watched the video and besides it being what you’d expect from a typical LTT video, I don’t see anything that’ll get me to raise a pitchfork.

He’s talking about SteamOS from the POV of the average gamer, who he calls “Joey Mainstream”. I’m starting to wonder how many people on this site regularly talk to none Linux users/gamers?

I also brought this up in another post a while back, Your average gamer doesn’t care about open-source, privacy, software, corporate overreach, etc. They just want software OS made by a corporation they trust. Most of these people probably only know of Linux from memes about needing a PHD to install a web browser.

Also should point out I personally do care about all the things I mentioned before. And I think mainline/non-SteamOS Linux is already great for gaming. I’m just pointing this out as the general consensus from most people I talk to who a line with the “average gamer”.

Since it separates Manjaro I’d assume it also does it for other Arch based distros with their own branding like Endeavour or Artix?

Steam on Linux has it’s own version of wine(proton) built in.

So you can launch Windows games through the Linux native Steam client.

A lot of newer big “gamer” brand peripherals are coming bundled with proprietary software you gotta run to get full functionality.

A friend of mine recently tried Linux and had his scroll wheel not work because it was tired to the software on Windows for some stupid reason…

I saw this trend starting nearly a decade ago when Razers software bricked my Win7 PC by booting before the login screen, I’ve avoided any devices with mandatory software since, but seems the issue has only grown lately.

This project has been around for a good while for multiple platforms. I used to play it on a jailbroken PSP!

Think last time I played it someone uploaded a version of it to my colleges shared network drive, Will have to try it again. :)

They wanted to many years ago but the EU actually stopped them, out of fear Microsoft would have the monopoly on anti virus software or something.

Aaaa fuck off I still play BF1 and doubt I’ll get an origin refund after 400hours gameplay

Nope just Steam

As someone who gave up on the Call of duty series after Ghost. I only bought BO3 when workshop support got added and haven’t regretted it.

It’s THE game for zombies fans in the current day.

Sadly I found out the Linux version hasn’t gotten the latest update so you gotta run it through Proton if you want Co-op with people on Windows.

No Besiege fans in here? Probably the most relaxing way to cause complete chaos and destruction.

That we totally agree on.

Just saying security/privacy issues aside these types of anti cheat don’t actually help as much as some people hope in combatting cheaters.

As long as they don’t touch BF1 and earlier I’m still fine.

Still think server side anti cheat is the ONLY way to combat cheaters at this point. All client side efforts (even kernel level) have been bypassed and hardware cheating devices running outside of the computer are becoming VERY common.

Thanks for the reply I managed the fix my issue and updated my post.

I was missing lib32-libpulse and after installing it everything worked including my unwanted audio outputs showing up ingame.

I’ve only just switch to Arch yesterday from EndeavourOS so there’s a lot of preinstalled stuff I took for granted I’m just now finding out about.

I’ve only distro hopped once…kinda, I went from Pop_OS with a 2 month stop over back on Windows 10 before landing on Endeavour

Been meaning to try move to vanilla Arch or try other distros now that I know a bit more about Linux, and my system is getting pretty cluttered. Just remembering what I need to backup is a pain.

EndeavourOS since July 2023. I’m doing my part!

Late reply but I only just found this post.

It’s the framerate that’s messing up your mouse, but using the in-game FPS limiter doesn’t play nicely with Proton/Wine so here’s my solution.

In the launch options for Black Ops add

DXVK_FRAME_RATE=125 %command%

You can replace 125 with whatever fps you you can consistently hit. In-game you have to turn off vsync and uncap your fps, but for some reason BO1 defaults your settings if you leave the fps uncapped, So instead use the console command com_maxfps 200 just make sure the number is higher than what you’ve set in the steam launch options.

Also if the game ever asks you to launch in “safe mode” click no or it will revert all your graphical settings.