Agreed. We’re close to “use Linux, it just works” but the closer it gets the more glaring the remaining issues become.
I recently dumped Win 11 for gaming and decided to try Steam OS, it wouldn’t get past the install because it couldn’t get a network connection. Next I tried CachyOS. It mostly works but the WiFI/BT support isn’t there, I had to track down a project that is working on drivers for the chipset in my Strix X870E-E motherboard which mostly fixed WiFi but I can’t get an Xbox controller to stay connected. Also networking can be patchy, and the PIA VPN client is just broken. All of these things worked fine in Windows.
We’re close to “use Linux, it just works” but the closer it gets the more glaring the remaining issues become.
Yeah I totally feel that. For basic PC stuff like web browsing it’s already there and that’s part of what makes gaming so annoying. You can tell that everything else is designed with flexibility and the user experience in mind so when a game just refuses to boot it feels more disappointing. I want it to be ready for everyone to use and it just isn’t.
If you have the dongle from Xbox theres a GitHub repository called like xbone that works really well on my machine, I am on mainline Arch btw. I noticed xbone only sucks when you first connect a controller, so there is a downside that sucks pretty bad.
Agreed. We’re close to “use Linux, it just works” but the closer it gets the more glaring the remaining issues become.
I recently dumped Win 11 for gaming and decided to try Steam OS, it wouldn’t get past the install because it couldn’t get a network connection. Next I tried CachyOS. It mostly works but the WiFI/BT support isn’t there, I had to track down a project that is working on drivers for the chipset in my Strix X870E-E motherboard which mostly fixed WiFi but I can’t get an Xbox controller to stay connected. Also networking can be patchy, and the PIA VPN client is just broken. All of these things worked fine in Windows.
Yeah I totally feel that. For basic PC stuff like web browsing it’s already there and that’s part of what makes gaming so annoying. You can tell that everything else is designed with flexibility and the user experience in mind so when a game just refuses to boot it feels more disappointing. I want it to be ready for everyone to use and it just isn’t.
If you have the dongle from Xbox theres a GitHub repository called like xbone that works really well on my machine, I am on mainline Arch btw. I noticed xbone only sucks when you first connect a controller, so there is a downside that sucks pretty bad.
Thanks for the tip, I’ll just stick with a long cable for now and order a Steam Controller next week.