Think of him what you want, but I think this nicely shows the problems that “gamers” will encounter when switching to linuxand gives a good view from outside the Linux community

I have no idea what was up with the multiple steam windows, it did feel like he was actually cursed when that happened.

But the “weird control” issue in l4d2 which was then solved by using a custom launch command found on protondb… thats super real.

Eventually you learn to check protondb as a habit the second you encounter any kind of game issue but for a newcomer thats another hurdle.

That was a combination of the Steam client being a piece of trash (incredible complexity and technical debt*) and COSMIC. COSMIC is quite buggy when it comes to Xwayland. I’ve had plenty of issues where I close a Xwayland window, but a ghost of the window remains.

• the Steam Client runs on a combination of Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and Debian 12 libraries. It has a combination of their old VGUI code and newer Chromium GUI. It remains 32-bit and only supports X11.

runs on a combination of Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and Debian 12 libraries.

No wonder it works fine in Ubuntu. Why won’t these “switch to Linux” challenges ever just fucking use Ubuntu?! It’s literally the distro that the big companies target!

Because Ubuntu is really slow to update, which means you might have to wait months for driver updates to play the newest games.

Also, a lot of people have Nvidia cards, and updating their drivers is a pain on Ubuntu.

Most gamers are best served by an Arch or Fedora based distro that can include Nvidia drivers automatically.