Really cool to see “mainline” titles getting this prior to release. Had a friend get pulled into Marvel Rivals who mainlines Linux at home, and he had actually 0 issues getting it running at the time. Literally just download and play. Civ also seems like the perfect game to play on a Deck, so this is a no brainer, but cool to see this stuff is getting more popular to support out-the-box.
My old PC could barely launch STALKER 2 so I decided it was time to upgrade. While picking out the parts I also decided I wanted to try using Linux as the OS. Then I got worried some of my games wouldn’t work. I mean, would STALKER 2 even run on Linux? What about Monster Hunter? Surley these huge titles wouldn’t have Linux support! They do. They work out of the box. It’s amazing how far Linux support for gaming has come.
I think I remember hearing about a bunch of Linux rivals players getting caught up in bans recently. BUT I also heard the company apologized, stated it was a mistake and reinstated them all. Which was sad to see happen but an extremely good sign that they wanted those players.
I’m so here for it. I don’t have a real gaming PC atm but I’ve been in and out of it for decades, and recently decided to switch to Linux for my daily driver. Seeing everything Valve has been doing for Linux gaming has been wonderful. The few games I want to play on my laptop instead of my PS5 have worked great, none of the headaches I had last time around with Linux (circa Obama). It’s helped me convince one or two of my friends, too, head of the Win10 dump.
SteamOS has been changing the game and it’s just gonna get better
Any word on Civ 6 getting the treatment?
I don’t like paying full price for Civ, and prefer to wait until there’s a GOTY edition to fix all of the annoyances that eventually get ironed out.
Civ6 runs fine on Linux
I mean even civ5 works very well. I think the question is about weather it will run well with the controller (that is to say without going into desktop mode and using mouse and keyboard).
I believe the only reason civ 6 isn’t verified is because the keyboard doesn’t automatically appear when needed, otherwise it works pretty seamlessly in my experience. Good controller support, touch pad is ideal for navigating the UI, and I setup a custom virtual menu with hot keys for common actions.
There’s technically a native Linux version too, but lacks multithreading so Windows version with proton is still better.
