RE: What are you all playing right now?
April 23, 2024 at 10:40 pm
(This post was last modified: April 23, 2024 at 11:05 pm by emjay.)
TLDR; Stardew Valley, on Windows 
Long, ranty version:
Miserable with my Linux experiment I was able to get basic 2D games like Stardew Valley to work but turns out NVIDIA graphics cards, like mine, are not well supported on Linux, so it's going to be a real uphill struggle trying to find a distro with the right drivers available to get my 3D games to work, and largely trial and error because the documentation seems to be pretty much non-existent.
Linux Mint, nope, and Pop OS is just behaving completely nuts out of the box, in it Steam won"t let me install anything in my iibrary or even add a new save location. It's just so frustrating
So what am I playing right now? Stardew Valley because I managed to get it working in Linux Mint, and where am I playing it now? Sadly in Windows, after I screwed something up and had to revert to an old, pre-Linux disk image of Windows. It has not been a good day.
So I'm just going to give myself a few days off from thinking about Linux, then back to the grindstone trying to find a suitable distro. Basically it seems to be the case that since NVIDIA doesn't want to make its drivers open source (or something like that), it's very complicated if you want to use the proprietary drivers directly from their website, having to compile their closed source drivers with the Linux kernels (or again, something like that), which is something that's way above my paygrade, and you'd have to do it all over again each time you changed your Linux kernel. So if you don't want to do all that, you have to make do with the limited selection of drivers a given distro provides, and if your model's not covered you're screwed.
It's a great argument against an omniscient God... an all-knowing being would know how to make Linux work as expected in any given case; impossible... I cannot conceive of such a being
Sorry for the long, rambly post but I'm at my wits end with this and just needed to get it off my chest. Hide tags provided out of courtesy.
Long, ranty version:
Miserable with my Linux experiment
I was able to get basic 2D games like Stardew Valley to work but turns out NVIDIA graphics cards, like mine, are not well supported on Linux, so it's going to be a real uphill struggle trying to find a distro with the right drivers available to get my 3D games to work, and largely trial and error because the documentation seems to be pretty much non-existent. Linux Mint, nope, and Pop OS is just behaving completely nuts out of the box, in it Steam won"t let me install anything in my iibrary or even add a new save location. It's just so frustrating
So what am I playing right now? Stardew Valley because I managed to get it working in Linux Mint, and where am I playing it now? Sadly in Windows, after I screwed something up and had to revert to an old, pre-Linux disk image of Windows. It has not been a good day.
So I'm just going to give myself a few days off from thinking about Linux, then back to the grindstone trying to find a suitable distro. Basically it seems to be the case that since NVIDIA doesn't want to make its drivers open source (or something like that), it's very complicated if you want to use the proprietary drivers directly from their website, having to compile their closed source drivers with the Linux kernels (or again, something like that), which is something that's way above my paygrade, and you'd have to do it all over again each time you changed your Linux kernel. So if you don't want to do all that, you have to make do with the limited selection of drivers a given distro provides, and if your model's not covered you're screwed.
It's a great argument against an omniscient God... an all-knowing being would know how to make Linux work as expected in any given case; impossible... I cannot conceive of such a being
Sorry for the long, rambly post but I'm at my wits end with this and just needed to get it off my chest. Hide tags provided out of courtesy.
