I love it. It is the best purchase decision I made in years. I am lazy - I prefer to play on Steam Deck than on my gaming laptop.
However, yesterday I tried to play Remnant 2 on Steam Deck. I was not expecting fireworks, but at least decent 30fps. IMO Game is unplayable on SD. Barely reaches 30fps. Fan spins like crazy. It works great on my laptop.
I’d started dualbooting with NobaraOS about a year ago, and recently deleted windows entirely. I haven’t run into a game I want to play yet that isn’t compatible.
How is performance compared to windows? After using the Steam Deck for a while I’m interested in making the switch.
I also have concerns how well WakeOnLan works together with remote desktop. I’m currently booting my gaming pc with the click of a button on my phone and then I sit at my laptop with Parsec. If there are good solutions and performance isn’t worse I’m probably taking the leap soon. Nvidia GPU btw.
Performance is usually the same, sometimes even better, and sometimes worse, if any particular game isn’t officially supported/optimised by proton developers (but usually not officially supported games work anyway, except for those with anticheat).
Wake on Lan works with TeamViewer/anydesk but only on xorg so far, but you have Nvidia so you are anyway stuck with xorg
Man thats great. Im not a devoted player but from time to time I just buy a game to have some fun. Last ones were Hellblade and Witcher 3. Also In thinkng of starting a new build from scratch so I might just jump into Linux and leave Windows behind for good. What is the ideal Linux flavour for gaming? Ubuntu? Mint? Whats it like with gpu drivers and what not?
If you have AMD GPU, it “just works” with pretty much any Linux distribution since the driver is included with the kernel.
If you have an NVIDIA GPU, you need to install the drivers from your distribution’s package manager. That’s usually pretty easy, at AFAIK Ubuntu and Mint detect it and prompt you to install them.
Once it’s installed, just update your system like normal and you’ll always have the latest drivers.
ideal Linux flavour
It doesn’t really matter, just pick something you like. If you’re using Steam, it’s basically the same experience regardless of the distro.
So pick something relatively popular so you have better options if you run into an issue. I recommend Mint, but plenty of others work well.
I have been looking in the steam store hoping it would show up since a lot of other Blizzard games are. Steam makes running games on Linux very easy, what did you do to run it, add battlenet as non steam game?
I’ll find you the guide I used, but in essence yes, you add battle.net as a non steam game. I think there’s a better method than the one I used where you can even have the games separately be added as non steam games as well instead of just the launcher
It’s runs really well, actually. I don’t have any solid numbers because I wasn’t really into that side of it, but I had a fairly large base going, about 20 hours past endgame (no where near a megabase, though) and no performance issues.
I hate the input delay on cloud gaming. It’s just not something wish to deal with in action games. I used it on my phone to play persona but killer instinct on Streaming is suffering.
It’s tolerable on a lot of games but anything that requires fast responses can feel pretty rough at times. Anything more chill or turn based runs just fine though!
That’s true, but even streaming locally from my series x to stream Deck really degrades the image quality and introduces input delay (which of course could also be caused by my network idk) so I’m not too keen on streaming games
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