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The main game I'm having problems with is an indie online title whose recent update peaked at less that 150k players. I don't care for AAA either, indie games also break on Linux.
You can definitely say "Oh just don't support Nvidia," but I bought my card nearly 10 years ago, and at the time it was the best I could afford. Upgrading to an AMD card would be great, but absolutely not happening any time soon in the current economic climate. If your response to that is "oh well get fucked ig," pretty hard to argue Linux as a universal gaming solution.
On top of all of this, it seems like everyone in this thread who's had success with gaming on Linux is saying run Bazzite, an OS I'd never heard of prior to reading responses here. That's cool if there's a distro that's actually solved a lot of gaming issues, but if I haven't heard of it, the average user is never going to find it. Maybe the title of this article should have been "Bazzite is now the best system for gaming."
Bazzite is just a spin of Fedora..
People know about it, because a lot of people use it on handhelds like the Rog ally and Steam decks
Which indie game are you having trouble with though? The only game on my Rog Ally I have trouble with is Goat Simulator 3 (and, I think that might be broken in general now), and I seem to recall canabalt was broken (but may be wrong.. There was definitely a second game)
Even with Nvidia though I wasn't having issues last I tested, but that was a while ago
Last Epoch, which recently had a major update. I've been flatly unable to get it running in two different operating systems now, and haven't even bothered to try tinkering with it for the last two days. It even mocks me with a Platinum rating on protondb...but all the reviews on Ubuntu are at least 9 months old and that was back when the game had a native Linux version. My biggest worry is that the latest patch has broken something for Ubuntu, but what's most likely is that my configs are just borked in a unique way that I'm too stupid to fix.
That's fair enough then. Did they maybe do something like switch to vulkan?
Maybe worth sending a new rating to wine appdb? That way they could isolate if it's a regression.