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  • espiritu_p@kbin.socialtoLinux Gaming@lemmy.ml•It's Time to Bring Back the Steam Machine
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    6 months ago

    I don’t think that’s the job of Valve.
    They tried to push Linux gaming a decade ago by providing a Linux distribution optimized for gaming and invited hardware vendors to sell machines with that distri.

    At that time a gaming optimized distribution was hardly needed, so they were pioneers at the time.
    And they still maintain their SteamOS, although it is only supported on Steam Decks.

    But there has so many happened since then. Gaming Hardware is working from Day 1 with Linux. Proton - wich is supported by Valve - is supporting latest games on Linux, mostly from Day 1. At least if the developers don’t actively sabotage it.
    As a result we don’t have that one SteamOS distribution which would ultimately put us in dependece from Valve. We have several different gaming optimized distributions that you can use.

    It’s great that Valve does so much for Linux gaming, but I don’t want them to manage everything.

  • espiritu_p@kbin.socialtoLinux Gaming@lemmy.ml•As a first time Linux user pretty much what should I use for gaming.
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    8 months ago

    Depends.
    …from what games you want to play, which hardware are you using, and so on.
    I built up a new pc last november, mostly for gaming. So nobara was a great choice and all my games are running fine on it. Including Baldurs Gate3, Cyberpunk 2077, Satisfactory and Everspace2.
    If you are not into buying the top-notch games on day one, you may look into other distros too. Nobara is grear, but I had some issues with my display setup (2 monitors with different rosolution) that may not have happened with mint or another more stable distro

  • espiritu_p@kbin.socialtoLinux Gaming@lemmy.ml•Any way to prevent save files being shared by different Steam users on distros that depend on steam?(SteamOS/ChimeraOS/HoloISO)
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    9 months ago

    you have two problems here:

    • save and config files of linux native games. They will usually create a directory somewhere in your home directory - usually under .var or .config
    • and then the save and config files for wine enabled games. They are saved in the steamapps/compatdata directory tree together with all the (windows) files wine needs to run the program. One folder for each game.
      you would need a separate compatdata structure for every steam account to keep the saves separated.
      A possible solution would be to create a start script for every steam user that links the respective folder to compatdata, and then starts steam with the correct credentials.
      You may need to separate other folders too, although I am not sure which those may be. Steam itself can do several users, since it’s based on the same code as on Windows. So you may just test with swapping the compatdata folder and check what it’s doing.

    A funny thing: Proton/wine seems to have a mechanic to provide a username. Because on my games installed by Heroic Launcher i find the windows Profile folder (in the Heroic prefixes folder which is equal to steams compatdata) under “c:\Users[Linuxusername]” while in the steam compatdata the folder is just named “c:\Users\user”
    I found that out because I recently copied my saves files from some games that are not cloud- saved to their folders.
    but I haven’t seen a setting in Steam to use different profile folders in Proton. Which means you will most probably break cloud features when trying to enforce this by start parameters.