It’s as good as any other distro, in to say pretty good. There are some cracks that just refuse to work in Linux, but most are pretty easy to get going.
I run arch exclusively and find gaming to be pretty seamless and enjoyable, but it does require some config. This is mostly because arch makes no assumptions so dependencies installed by default on other systems are likely not present unless you installed them.
I suggest running Lutris since it handles wine prefixes. Wine prefixes essentially do the work of keeping your individual game installs compartmentalized so each game has all the required dependencies to run properly.
Regardless of whether you use Lutris, the maintainers of that software have good documentation on installing wine and its dependencies here. The guide has a section for Arch and is particularly helpful for ensuring you have all appropriate vulkan or nvidia drivers and driver dependencies installed.
Best of luck if you decide to go down the arch path!
Its great. I use lutris for my games and point the custom wine excutable to steam’s proton experimental
I’ve been incentivised not to, because Steam + Proton work so well.
Probably worth downloading some backups and getting them running though, in case Steam decides to rug pull
Same here. Haven’t even thought about pirating games because Steam is just working.
Seems to me that Spotify and Steam has been really successful preventing piracy in music and games, but the streaming movie industry has failed because they got greedy.
Yeah steam does it very well. On stuff like the switch, the prices are so crazy I immediately go hack my console. But in steam, prices were so much lower to the point in which I never thought about it.
I only recently started doing it when I noticed some games block you from playing offline.
I use Bottles for most stuff, and everything works smoothly.
Same, I tried lutris but it just wasn’t working consistently. Bottles is both easier and consistent for me.
Lutris still got them scripts tho for specific needs.
I’m not on Arch, I’m on Gentoo, but I’m using Flatpak, so this should apply to you too.
Just get Bottles.
I’ve tried it on:
- Assassin’s Creed 1
- Assassin’s Creed 2
- Nier Automata
- Nier Replicant
- Crash Bandicoot
- Dishonored
… and probably some other titles I can’t recall on top of my head.
The gotcha is that you may have to install the right library dependencies (e.g. DVDX, .NET, Mono, Redistributable C++, probably fonts), which can be done on the Bottles.
