I also play games on this system, so having newer kernel and Mesa versions help.

I guess I’m that guy in this thread constantly bringing up his current distro of choice lol… But have you tried Bazzite? From what I understand it’s basically Kinoite but built with gaming in mind.

If you have, I’d be curious as to what differences there were between it and Kinoite…

I recommend giving Bazzite a try for gaming. I switched to it from Arch (well EOS), and it’s been wonderful.

I loved EndeavourOS, but I’m just not sure bleeding edge is for me. Mostly because I will forget to update for a week, and suddenly there are 500 updates, all with interconnected dependencies and pacman is just like “wtf dude?”

I’m not sure I really gained any benefit from that over using a more stable release. I switched to Bazzite a few months back, and it’s been amazing. Immutable is very interesting, and it’s made for the most stable PC I’ve ever owned.

Highly recommend Bazzite for gamers (or I guess it’s good for multimedia too), or if not, one of the other Fedora-based immutable distros.

I’ve been using Bazzite for a few months now (switched from EndeavourOS, which was great) and it’s been amazing. I’m sold on atomic/immutable. I have never had a PC this stable, including every Windows PC I’ve had.

And it’s perfect for gaming. There are weird little tweaks and settings that I had to do on EOS to get my GPU working correctly, etc., and they all just work out of the box in Bazzite (I did get the iso image made specifically for my laptop, which definitely helps). It’s super impressive actually.

And distrobox (BoxBuddy comes installed) can be used to access the AUR or whatever if I feel the need to. Just fire up an Arch box, and have at it.

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Playing the original Half-Life is like a formative gaming memory for me… It had been such a massive leap from your DOOM 2s and Dukes Nukem. I was super young though, so I don’t know how much I cared about the narrative.

HL2, on the other hand…Now that I remember vividly. I remember having to use five CDs to install it because Steam had literally just been invented (for HL2). Having to create a Steam account and log into a service to play a game was so foreign at the time lol…

Might be time to re-play.

This might only be true for people who played the original when it first came out (or at least, were playing video games at that time, and are used to the dated graphics).

Also, to add to this: if you haven’t played Portal and Portal 2, then you need to do that now. Like possibly even before HL

If you’re gonna start with 1, I recommend playing Black Mesa as the updated graphics and qol stuff make it easier to tolerate in modern times.

But that’s just me. There is probably some crucial reason why Black Mesa is not the definitive version, and I’m about to hear why

Hmmm… I guess it has been over a decade. Maybe it’s time to play HL2 again.

OMG I can feel the heat emanating from that photo

You can easily set it up to do this automatically with something like timeshift…

I recently switched to an Atomic distro (Bazzite), and they have made it so easy to rollback to previous commits without any additional software.

Pan-sexual then, perhaps?

I installed Bottles, but was disappointed when it didn’t actually have anything to do with bottles.

If you think every name of every product, etc., is going to be literal… you’re gonna have a tough time in life.

and I’m so amazed how well it just works with proton.

Yeah dude!

I’m relatively new to Linux, so I don’t really have any experience pre-proton. But I get the feeling that there are TONS of people who haven’t tried it in years, that truly do not understand how far it has come. I’m sure they’ve heard that before, etc., but I can say that it’s 100% true this time.

If you haven’t tried gaming on Linux since before the Steam Deck came out, I implore you to give it another shot. Even better if you use a gaming-oriented distro (I’m on Bazzite now, and it has been wonderful).

Admittedly, I don’t play any games with anti-cheat, but my linux gaming experience over the past two years or so has been outstanding. I don’t believe I have encountered a single game that I have wanted to play, but could not. And 99.9% of them work without any tweaking required.

It’s not confusing at all… How is this any more confusing than:

Flatpak - they’re not literally flat…

Snap - I’ve never seen or heard any evidence of something snapping by any definition of the word I’m aware of.

Dolphin - what the fuck is this, no sea life whatsoever!

Kate - this is a text editor, not a person.

Distrobox - not in an actual box.

etc.

It’s not semantics, they are two different things.

And to your edit… Are you upset that there are two different words that mean two different things? I don’t understand.

they decided to create a bigger confusion by giving another word a completely different and exclusive meaning

Isn’t this just how words work…?

Do a little research, dude… Do you think you’re the first person to have those questions/issues? That’s all been addressed.

I’ve been on an atomic/immutable distro for a few months now (Bazzite), and the experience has been great.

Right after? What year is it?