X-Box One update failure raises awkward questions about the future prospects of console hardware
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Have you tried it recently? I was extremely surprised. I basically have a Steam Deck now.
I simply typed in "usb wifi linux" on Amazon and bought the first result for like $20 and it worked immediately with no installation as soon as I plugged it in. Don't see why you'd have to pretend something basic like wifi is still as difficult as it might have been a decade ago.
It’s improved a lot since hardware standards have gotten to be a lot better. Wi-Fi kept me away my first go around with Linux nearly a decade ago, but with hardware all from the last five years, it’s a non factor.
I’m not lying to sell Linux as much, as I would like to. I totally expected my Linux gaming experiment to be a disaster. With rare exceptions I mentioned in another post, it’s just fucking worked.
Mine is a decade old PC that I repurposed into a medis system after an upgrade that didn't have any built in wifi, I just plugged the D-Link wifi thing into a USB port and it worked. Can't stand guys who made Linux Hater part of their personality and fixated on "my sound card drivers don't work" from 15-20 years ago.
What distro are you running?
I'm on Mint and for 90% of games Proton just works, for 8% there's maybe 15-20 minutes of figuring out which version it works for and two clicks to change it and maybe 2% just don't work, but those games are usually stuck on Game Pass which is locked down like an entire nunnery.
Nice, nice.
I've had a few suggestions on here about Linux distros to install, so I'm contemplating what to go with.
Mint has a windows skin over everything including a start menu and software manager, like half of the windows specific keyboard shortcuts work, but there's a few quirks.
Bazzite. It's really just Fedora with default Steam Game Mode built in. It gets Fedora updates and all. It wasn't my intention to go that way, but I started looking in how to put SteamOS on any old PC and it kept coming up.
So essentially, it boots up just like a Steam Deck into a console-like space. All the Steam stuff works fine in there and if you're all Steam you could fairly easily just use it as a Steam console at that point.
I have much more from GOG, so I go into desktop mode, basically just a Linux desktop and into Lutris, where I can install GOG games. I've done quite a few with a lot of success so far. I even installed an Epic Store freebie game, and while a bit more cumbersome it actually works, and they way it works, EGS runs inside it's own walled garden and only when the game is running. Lutris will link the games to your Steam, so in general all of my gameplay is via the Steam console-like interface. This works with emulators too, but I haven't really tweaked those yet.
I left a Windows 11 dual boot for games that have issues. That was really 75% of the work getting it set up was getting the dual boot right. The only things I've needed that for so far are games that require Xbox app (e.g. the Forza games) and one EA game that I think could be made to work with more effort, I spent a full 10mins on it tops. I've heard the usual suspects for kernel anticheat, like Valorant, won't work in Linux--because Linux doesn't allow kernel access.
Awesome. Are you using an AMD or Nvidia card?
I haven't decided about whether I want to fresh install on my current rig or just by a new gaming rig altogether and make it a dedicated Linux build.
AMD. I’ve heard Nvidia doesn’t work as well particularly with a lot of the features develop for Steam Deck. I think still okay with games though.