Gaming with Linux - Linux Presentation Day 2022.1

The event took place may 21st. 2022 I may continue this format at Twitch.

Below you find some information on gaming with Linux.

During the event (3 hours) we randomly played games of a collection of more than 1000 games. We played 10 games in total - from indie to AAA titles. Every game had a time window of 15 minutes to play it or to get it to run.

My XBox Controller was immediately recognized but the keys were not mapped correctly by default.

Install launchers:

sudo apt-get install steam
sudo apt-get install lutris

Definitely do not install the games on a Windows partition. Steam uses Symlinks, which does not work using NTFS or FAT32.

Actually, simply install via the Steam Client and you're good.

In Steam > Settings under Steam Play tick the additional Box, to start all games using Proton.

Once you downloaded a game somewhere, unzip it to a folder of your choice.

• Add the new game under "Wine" in the menu.
• As executable you give the full path to the start file of the game.
• As work directory you give the full path to the folder that contains the start file.
• Save and run.

Problem (probably related to using the Steam Beta Client): Lutris does not start any game.

Important: The problem is solved with Lutris version 0.5.10 but this is not yet part of Ubuntu (as of may 2022).

The developers offer a Debian package on their github.

2 Options:

1. Install the Epic Client and use it like the Steam Client.
   • Open https://lutris.net/games/epic-games-store/ and click "Install"
   • Lutris opens with a installation dialog.
   • Follow the instructions, everything gets configured.
   • Start the Epic Games Store like a game and games from within.
2. Connect your Epic acount to Lutris and manage games within Lutris
   • In the Sources menu choose "Epic Games Store" and click that Connect button.
   • Follow the instructions to connect your account.
   • You library gets fetched and viewed.
   • Install and run games directly from Lutris.

To see how well a game performs, you can check ProtonDB before you purchase.

• https://www.protondb.com/

Games recently still marked "borked" will most likely not work.

If a game runs very poorly or not at all is inconvenient. Steam has a return policy that allows to return a game withing 14 days as long as you played less than 2 hours. Epic has a similar policy.

• https://store.steampowered.com/steam_refunds
• https://www.epicgames.com/site/de/store-refund-policy

Keep an yes on Steam Special, weekend game tryout offers and Sales.

• https://store.steampowered.com/

Epic still hands out a very good game once a week for free.

• https://store.epicgames.com/de/free-games

Indiegala gives free games now and then.

• https://freebies.indiegala.com/

At Humble Bundle you can subscribe and receive monthly game bundles - often much cheaper than the games.

• https://www.humblebundle.com/membership

Other gameplatforms:

• https://www.gog.com/
• https://itch.io/
• https://www.fanatical.com/de/

If you're looking for a bargain, check this out:

• https://steamdb.info/sales/?min_reviews=0&min_rating=0&min_discount=80
• https://isthereanydeal.com/

echo $XDG_SESSION_TYPE

https://superuser.com/questions/1382839/zip-files-expand-with-backslashes-on-linux-no-subdirectories

Especially Indiegala downloads often are ZIPs that are compressed with wrong directory separators (\ instead of /). A little Script helps:

cd MyGame
unzip my_game.zip

# Repair:
for file in *\\*; do target="${file//\\//}"; mkdir -p "${target%/*}"; mv -v "$file" "$target"; done