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I forked SteamOS for my living room PC

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Re: I forked SteamOS for my living room PC

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Post by barbariangrunge »

jorvi wrote: post #42
COGlory wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

FYI Valve is primarily deploying KDE, which does support VRR. They can't really control what dumb decisions the GNOME folks make. For Mirror's Edge, were you using Steam Input?

Yeah, except I prefer the cleanliness of Gnome over how scattershot and buggy KDE feels, so I’m SoL. I’ve even looked into launching games into their own little Gamescope instance, but if you don’t run Gamescope as your main window manager, you lose most of its benefits. > For Mirror's Edge, were you using Steam Input? Yes. The problem lies in the fact that only the Xone driver properly supports the Xbox wireless ada…

Just chiming in to say gnome is wonderful to use and I miss it every time I have to use something else

Re: I forked SteamOS for my living room PC

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gclawes wrote: post #3
coffeebeqn wrote: post #2

I was totally blown away by how good Proton is in the post Steam Deck world. I now play Steam games on my Linux laptop almost daily because they “just work” even when the only listed supported platform is Windows

That's awesome. How does proton treat anti-cheat software or DRM?

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Re: I forked SteamOS for my living room PC

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Post by steveklabnik »

aseipp wrote: post #64
ekianjo wrote: post #15

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Not every gamer wants an esport experience to have fun

There's nothing "esports" about wanting to avoid wallhacks/aimbots in games like Tarkov, Rust, or Destiny, which completely ruin the entire game for every player in the lobby in an instant. It has nothing to do with "esports" and everything to do with actually being able to play the game. Do you also think it's because of "esports" when you're forbidden from cheating at a game of chess in person? When my friend plays…

RIP to the Cycle. It deserved better.

I am glad that Bungie is going with fog of war for Marathon. And heck, given the features Marathon is getting, maybe someday Destiny can have those nice things too. We'll see...

Re: I forked SteamOS for my living room PC

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Post by barbariangrunge »

Wytwwww wrote: post #25
ekianjo wrote: post #15

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Not every gamer wants an esport experience to have fun

I assumed that cheating is way more widespread amongst multiplayer gamers? There is a lot less anonymity in esports and if you get caught and blacklisted.. well you just wasted thousands or tens of thousands of hours. It's pretty hard to have fun when the server is full of cheaters.

Cheating in single player is sort of like modding

Re: I forked SteamOS for my living room PC

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Post by Phelinofist »

Zekio wrote: post #60
jorvi wrote: post #42

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Yeah, except I prefer the cleanliness of Gnome over how scattershot and buggy KDE feels, so I’m SoL. I’ve even looked into launching games into their own little Gamescope instance, but if you don’t run Gamescope as your main window manager, you lose most of its benefits. > For Mirror's Edge, were you using Steam Input? Yes. The problem lies in the fact that only the Xone driver properly supports the Xbox wireless ada…

you could try Xow it supports the wireless dongles for xbox controllers if that is what you are trying to use

Isn't Xone the new version of Xow and Xow is no longer maintained?

Re: I forked SteamOS for my living room PC

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Post by colordrops »

bravetraveler wrote: post #43
jorvi wrote: post #4

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I’ll dissent. After hearing people be ecstatic, I thought I’d go full-in on Linux gaming. I have a pretty bog-standard gaming PC that is very Linux-compatible (Intel i5 + Radeon 6800XT) and on there Apex Legends has horrid frame pacing issues, Mirror’s Edge doesn’t work with wireless Xbox controllers. You lose out on a lot of GPU suite features that Windows has. Gnome doesn’t support VRR. Etc etc. There’s so many sma…

Did you try out 'gamescope'? This is something you find on the Deck but not 'for free' with Steam on other Linux. I find it helps with pacing. It also supports VRR with a commandline argument, '--adaptive-sync' . VRR may need support in the environment to work, I'm not sure. Sway/wlroots does it fine. Presumably KDE does/can too since that's what the Deck uses in 'desktop' mode (otherwise, gamescope) . edit: I see in…

Could you provide details on how you got gamescope working with sway? What is the full command line you used? I believe I ran into problems with it conflicting with XWayland or something like that.

Re: I forked SteamOS for my living room PC

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Post by Cyph0n »

diggan wrote: post #28
Cyph0n wrote: post #12

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I also run a Windows VM for gaming. One thing to note is that some games have (robust!) VM detection checks on launch, so you can’t even run them in the first place. Valorant is one example.

> I also run a Windows VM for gaming What do you use for the VM? Last time I checked, I couldn't find any free/FOSS VM tooling that allows me to do GPU pass-through on a Linux Host to Windows Guest.

I use Proxmox and GPU passthrough works just fine (via QEMU). Note that Nvidia GPUs have less issues with passthrough, at least last I checked. See this guide: https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/PCI_Passthrough

But if you’re running a standard distro, there are guides for most them.

* Arch guide (excellent resource, applicable to all distros): https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/PCI_passthrough_via_OVMF

* Ubuntu: https://ubuntu.com/server/docs/gpu-virtualization-with-qemu-...

* Gentoo: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/GPU_passthrough_with_libvirt_qe...

You can also find countless blog posts and videos on setting up GPU passthrough.

One excellent resource for gaming use-cases in particular is this subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/VFIO/

Last thing to note is that your motherboard can make the process easier if it has good IOMMU support. Basically, you want a MB that puts your PCI slot in a separate IOMMU group. You can find examples by searching for “(MB name) IOMMU groups”.

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