Hello World

The most satisfaction I have found in leaving Windows, and proprietary tech, behind has been the full realization that nothing I do on my computer will be held to arbitrary artificial restraints. If there is something that doesn't work yet, it is usually because it hasn't been implemented yet, a hard technical reason in contrast.

Care to share any barriers you had to break through to arrive here?

Hello World

Care to share any barriers you had to break through to arrive here?

It was definitely a learning curve.. I remember years ago driver support was no where near as mature as it is these days ... Now I can pretty much install any out-of-the-box hardware and have it just 'work' without having to recompile the kernel, etc
.. Always learning new things still though.. Like last week I just learned about editing the fstab and gurb so my cloned hdd would boot the correct drive! It's so refreshing to take a prior install from Intel and be able to switch motherboard/CPU to AMD without issue!

Huh.

Have i introduced myself yet?? I don't remember

Welcome everyone!

Welcome everyone! Enjoy Linux and the world of freedom it provides!

Hi there! Nice to be part of the community and see others persevere with Linux gaming ;)

I'm a fairly recent convert to Linux, and thus Linux gaming having only been at it for a year or so. I have recently finally graduated to Arch level godliness. I started with stock Ubuntu a long time agooo. No references to STar wars at this current time. More of a Stargate or Star Trek man myself.

I'm finally at the stage where I have tinkered enough to get everything I want working in gaming - Gsync, nvidia, fans, wine+dxvk, alsa, etc. the list goes on. The only outstanding issue is my low NVME drive read/write speeds, which are at about 10-20% of others. At this time, I have given up and am wondering if the same issue persists on Windows too on my setup. I have no way of verifying as I intend to never touch windows ever again. Still, I would prefer to utilise the NVME ssd to its full potential. One day, maybe.

Anyways, to introduce myself before blabbering on about getting games to work - I have a special affinity to Linux and Moomins, living here up North. I don't ascribe to nation states too much, but I can't help but feel a certain pride when anyone mentions something about Linus and Linux. It is heavily promoted in our educational institutions, but you'd be surprised how rarely it is used in firms even in Finland. Microsoft products dominate even here. So we still have a long way to go.

I try to contribute what little I can, whether it be through Patreon or just bug reports, as I believe like so many others here that FOSS is a worthy cause. I can't really help much otherwise - I just use some Python to automise things at work, and also with side projects at home dabbling in machine learning, but that's the extent of my 'programming' knowledge. It's mostly about data analytics actually.

I like dogs. A lot. We've always had a dog in our family and often took rescue dogs into our care. I hope in my current situation to move to a bigger place close to a forest and get a big dog. That's the dream. Along with a cottage by the lake. Slowly but steadily that dream will come true.

I have an extensive collection on Steam, which I have recently decided to take a break from and in a way boycott. I'm instead growing my collection on GOG, Uplay, Origin and Epic. I have greatly slowed down my purchases in gaming recently due to IRL events, but I have a hefty backlog of usually full-priced pricier games. Currently I'm playing Anno 1800 through Uplay, a lot.

Ok ok, I'll stop now, nobody likes a wall of text of blabbering.

I'm from Poland.

Only non-open-source software I've used are games. Free (as in freedom) software are great, but free games are not too good.
I gather a lot of licenses for closed-source games for GNU/Linux and others (Windows, DOS, Amiga?), especially from GOG and Steam. Some of the closed-source games I get for free (why not?) or on big discount. If I gather many money, I will support open source software I've used. Maybe I will use closed-source utilities for Linux too if they exist, but I doubt. I use open source software not for ideological reason. KDE Plasma, OpenSUSE Tumbleweed, Yat2 are overkill (in my opinion).

I'm searching friends to play online. I like 4K (Civilization for example) games.

See: https://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198066566163/games/?tab=all

Hello everyone! For a long time, I was just watching the forum, but then I decided to register. Glad to be part of the community! What's up?

I'm just a former long-time lurker who decided to join in with the cool kids. Watched the growth of Linux overtime that has evolved in a wealth of games being playable thanks to Wine/Steam/Proton/Lutris/Feral which when I started Linux...gaming wasn't even remotely a serious option. I normally go back and forth between Mint and Ubuntu. Currently Ubuntu has won the battle, but not the OS war.

Hello, My name is Rafał. I live in poland . I deal with data recovery, and I treat games as a fun pastime to chill out. I am just discovering the charms of Linux games.

Hello everyone, I hope you are all having a great day!

I was registered on this fantastic website before, but under what username I have forgotten. Just to quickly reintroduce myself, I have been using Linux with a variety of distros (I distro hop quite a bit) for 7 years now and it is my main operating system of choice now.

I went back to Windows 10 full-time for 5 months recently to experience a little of the other side and while using my Windows PC for productivity and an Xbox One for gaming felt okay, the amount of DRM, telemetry and control was unbelievable. It just felt wrong.

Now I am very happy to be back and here to stay on Linux. I am glad to have experienced Windows again, only to see how much worse the privacy situation on the OS has become.

GamingOnLinux is my prime source of Linux-related news on the Internet and Liam and the rest of the editorial team do an incredible job. Thank you very much for what you do.

Hi everyone!

Long time web developer, who loves to game on Linux, and has been around long enough to just about remember XBill (among one of the first games that I ever played on Linux).

These days I am more likely to be found playing Stellaris, SuperTuxKart or something decidedly more retro.

Hello everyone!

I first started using Linux when I built my first computer when I was 15/16. The first distro I installed for it was Ubuntu 16.04.

Nowadays I use Linux Mint as my distro of choice for my PC. But, I do mess around with other ones every now and then.

Never notice this before.

Hi all. Joined the linux using community back in the late 90's. Went all in on Linux as 2000 came. Lucky enough to have a Linux admin job for going on 21 years now. I mostly play stuff on itch.io and Stadia these days.

Although Vulp is already here since 2019 and frequently chatting on GOL Discord, Vulp hasn't post anything on GOL Forum... until today

Hello, my name is Vulphere or Vulp (feel free to use both to refer me).

So... Vulp loves computing and customising a heck of it... and also love playing video games. Linux is a perfect place to satisfy those things, first time seeing Linux on the wild was at a supermarket (with KDE 3 something) in 2004-2005

As for Vulp's Tale on Tux Adventure, It was started back in 2008, back then still using Windows XP (never interested in Vista, lol) and trying something with virtual machine was my hobby back then. After a couple of MSDOS and old Windows installations... YouTube recommended me a video about how to install Ubuntu on Microsoft Virtual PC 2007 (yeah...) and so I watched that video and also downloaded the ISO from Ubuntu website. Then, came the iconic startup sound and GNOME 2 desktop (Vulp loves at the first sight, lol).

Slowly navigating in the then-unknown realm of Tux land, Vulp later also installed Ubuntu (this time 12.04) on real boot. Then seeing KDE Plasma 4 and installing kubuntu-desktop to enjoy the KDE experience.

Distrohopping? Yup, Vulp has hopped from distro to distro. Ubuntu to Fedora to Debian to Bodhi to Manjaro to Arch... and DEhopping as well. GNOME 2 to KDE Plasma 4 to Enlightenment to MATE to Cinnamon to KDE Plasma 5 to GNOME 3 and back again to KDE Plasma 5.

Manjaro was the chapter 2 of Vulp's Tale on Tux Adventure, the bleeding-edge nature of the distribution, the pacman, the AUR attracted Vulp to it... Manjaro running solid but Vulp decided to jump straight to upstream Arch in 2017.

Since 2017, Vulp is using Arch Linux as primary computing platform.

Hello! Early-1980s-born UK-based gamer-girl, here. I started out with a Commodore 64C that I got for Christmas in 1990. The arcade-style genres that were popular here (partly due to cassette-tapes being the norm for home-micros in the UK) shaped my taste in video games for life, and the machine taught me lifelong confidence with both command-line and graphical interfaces. I never liked having to press "Up" to jump, though!

I moved to Linux in 2008; About five years after getting the C64 I was forced over to Windows by necessity and never got on well with any iteration of it, then I went to Mac OS X for a few years while waiting for Linux WiFi support to mature, and then I settled on Linux permanently. I started with Kubuntu, but switched to Xubuntu a year or so later and have stuck with that ever since, across a few laptops that got hooked up to a bigger monitor when at home. I don't have a great need for a powerful desktop machine, so when my previous laptop finally bit the dust in 2020 I started using an 8GB Raspberry Pi 4 Model B for that task.

Portable gaming is my jam (for me, TV/monitor-out is nice but not necessary), and after becoming disappointed with the Nintendo Switch (various series that I like were taken in directions that I didn't enjoy and some didn't get updated for the new hardware at all, and I grew tired of having to frequently repair carefully used equipment due to the uncharacteristically poor build-quality) I sold up last year, and today I took delivery of a GPD Win Max 2021 - which is now happily running Xubuntu, of course. ;)

I mostly enjoy games that are on the cute side, and my game collection reflects that. I also have an interest in retro-gaming and emulation, ROM-hacks and mods of older games, and newly-made games for old consoles (the latter of which sometimes overlaps with the ROM-hacks/mods). I hope that I can share a bit of my enthusiasm for these things here. :)

Portable gaming is my jam (for me, TV/monitor-out is nice but not necessary), and after becoming disappointed with the Nintendo Switch (various series that I like were taken in directions that I didn't enjoy and some didn't get updated for the new hardware at all, and I grew tired of having to frequently repair carefully used equipment due to the uncharacteristically poor build-quality) I sold up last year, and today I took delivery of a GPD Win Max 2021 - which is now happily running Xubuntu, of course. ;)

That GPD thing is really neat. Never heard of it before.

That GPD thing is really neat. Never heard of it before.

I didn't originally plan to get one, but after grabbing a GPD MicroPC last year and being wowed by the design and build-quality I decided to go for it. No regrets at all, and there was minimal fuss getting Xubuntu 21.10 up and running on it (just had to set the correct screen rotation post-install and tweak one config file to get sound output). I presume it's fine with most distros at this point.

Oh hi, I have forgotten to introduce myself before.

I'm a dude from Finland and I switched to Linux last summer because I got tired of Windows updates. One of the best decisions I've made. I eventually settled down with Kubuntu and I really like using it.

On my free time, besides of gaming of course, I like to program stuff, be it games or maybe even contribute to FOSS projects.

My plan is to continue making games on my free time and this time Linux first. Someone's gotta do it.

My favorite game genres are FPS and RPG's. Even better when the two are combined, which is why I especially love Morrowind.

If you see me in Matrix or Discord, feel free to say hi!

Also here are some links:

My blog: https://akselmo.dev
My games: https://akselmo.itch.io
(most games are Windows only for now unfortunately, since they were made before I switched, but they should work with Wine+DXVK, use Lutris)

Last edited by akselmo on 22 February 2022 at 3:01 pm UTC