After my big Linux switch a few weeks back I've mostly spent the time figuring out a new workflow for actual work (and also playing lots of FreeCell).
But now it's time to get all the gamedev stuff up and running, so I thought joining a jam would be a good way to do that.
Anyone else working on the #GodotWildJam this month? So far I have...um...this.
Continuing the series of Screenshots That Look Like Nothing.
It's fine the jam is only half over, no need to panic yet 👀
@gspeirs For general day-to-day stuff and the sorts of games I play it was pretty seamless. It's definitely worth playing around on a VM until you find a distro you like best out of the box, makes it a lot easier (you can also use distrosea.com to get a rough idea but it's very laggy).
The main issue for me is video editing, couldn't find a decent replacement workflow for that so I'm stuck dual booting Windows for now.
I'll report back on the gamedev bit!
@teahands @gspeirs probably not what you're wanting, but you can do a lot with ffmpeg commands. Most visual editors are basically just firing ffmpeg commands off in the background I believe, so if you can do it in an editor you can probably do it with an ffmpeg command.
Not that I've done anything like as much video stuff as you, but for a visual editor I quite like OpenShot. Does more than it looks like it can, although admittedly not intuitively half the time. But that might be a me thing.
@teahands Thanks :) The reason I want a Linux machine is mostly so I can access stuff on Steam that doesn’t have a Mac version (I use a Mac for work and that’s working great for me so no reason to change.)
I was planning on getting a Steam Machine but with them being delayed and likely more expensive than I’d hoped, I’m now thinking about just building my own.
@gspeirs @teahands Well, I have a little mini-PC that sits under the TV and runs "Bazzite", which is a gaming specific distro that looks and feels pretty much identical to SteamOS. It runs everything I throw at it, but would likely have issues if you're into online multiplayer (anti-cheat issues).
Bazzite will run on most machines, but you'll generally have a better time if you have AMD graphics hardware than NVidia, though it's improving.
@gspeirs @teahands But if you're not interested in the TV interface of Bazzite/SteamOS, any distro can run Steam and Proton.
If you're interested in bleeding edge stuff and the most frames possible, you might want to go for a more up-to-date distro like Fedora. Some distros lag behind the latest kernel stuff (Ubuntu, Mint). But you potentially sacrifice stability for frames.
I run Fedora KDE on my other machines, and they run games fine as well.
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