If you are going to put down popcorn and want to experience the game from all angles, then open the game under Linux!
Nowadays, people have more reasons to like Linux. In this series, I will share 21 reasons to use Linux. Today, I will start with the game.
I used to think that "gaming players" were a very special creature that must be rigorously determined by scientists after years of research and testing. I never classified myself as a gamer because the games I have played are either tabletop games (board games and pen and paper role-playing games), or NetHack, Tetris. Now that there are games on mobile devices, gaming consoles, computers and TVs, I think there are now gamers of all forms of gamers. If you want to call yourself a gamer, you can be, without any qualifications required. You don’t have to memorize the "up, down, down, left, left, BA" secrets in your mind (you can’t even know what this is); you don’t have to buy and play a 3A game. If you play games from time to time, you can call yourself a player. If you want to be a player, it's time to use Linux now.
Welcome to the game world
stripping glossy ads, under which you will surely find a thriving game world. Before people believed that software like not spreadsheets or practice typing could make money, the emerging gaming market had begun to develop. Indie game has already made its own mark in pop culture in various ways (maybe you don't believe that although Minecraft is not open source, it was an indie game from the beginning), which also confirms that in the eyes of players, playability is higher than product value.
There are many intersections between independent developers and open source developers. Nothing makes more sense than taking your Linux laptop, browsing the software library of itch.io or your distribution, and finding a little-known but precious treasure of open source gaming.
has a wide variety of open source games, including a large number of first-view shooters, puzzle games like Nodulus, strategy-running games like transport tycoons, racing games like Jethook, racing escape games like Sauerbraten, and a lot of unmentioned (thanks to great events like Open Jam, new games are added every year).
Overall, the experience of exploring the world of open source games is very different from the instant satisfaction brought by purchasing products from large game studios. Games produced by large game studios offer a lot of audio-visual thrills, well-known actors, and game durations up to 60+ hours. Independent and open source games cannot be compared with them. But then again, what big game studios can’t offer is the sense of discovery and personal feelings that come about when you discover a game that others have never heard of. When you realize that others are keen to know which great game you just played, big studios don’t offer that sense of urgency either. (LCTT Proof Note: The roughly means that the works of large studios are well-known and have no freshness to dig)
Take some time to find your favorite game, and then browse your publisher's software warehouse, Flathub, and open source game warehouse to see what you can find. If you find a game you like very much, please help promote it. Games on
Proton and WINE
Linux do not stop at open source, but start from open source. When Valve Software re-branded Linux into the gaming market years ago by releasing the Steam client for Linux, people hoped that this would drive game studios to write native Linux games. Some studios did this, but Valve did not succeed in promoting Linux as a major platform, even for Valve-branded gaming computers. And most game studios are turning back to the old ways of developing games only on Windows platforms.
Interestingly, the end result is that more open source code is generated. Valve has created the Proton project for Linux compatibility, a compatibility layer that can convert Windows games to Linux.At the kernel level of Proton, it uses WINE (Wine Is Not an Emulator) – a major Windows library that is reimplemented in an open source way. The achievements of the
game market have now become the treasure of the open source world. Today, most games from large studios can run like native games on Linux.
Of course, if you are a player who must play the latest version of the game on the release day, you may encounter some unpleasant "surprises". Although that's not a surprise, few big games are released without any holes and patches are made a week later. These games can be worse when running on Proton and WINE, so Linux players avoid these problems by avoiding getting in the car as early as possible. This compromise may be worth it. I've played a few games that run perfectly on the Proton platform and later discovered from angry forum posts that it runs on the latest version of Windows with obviously fatal errors. Anyway, it seems that games from large studios are not perfect, but you may have similar but different problems on Linux, as you have encountered on Windows.
Flatpak
Linux The most exciting development in recent history is Flatpak, which is a combination of local containers and packaging. It has nothing to do with games (or closely related to games), which allows Linux applications to be distributed to any Linux distribution. This also applies to games, as quite a bit of cutting-edge technology is used in the game, and for distribution maintainers it can be quite demanding to keep up with all the latest versions required for any particular game.
Flapak abstracts a common Flatpak-specific layer from the distribution by abstracting it out of the distribution. The publisher of the Flatpak package knows that if a library is not in the Flatpak SDK, it must be included in the Flatpak package, which is simple and straightforward.
Thanks to Flatpak, the Steam client can run on commonly used distributions like Fedora, or on operating systems such as RHEL and Slackware that are not targeted at the game market from a traditional perspective.
Lutris
If you are not in a hurry to register an account on Steam, you can use my preferred game client Lutris. On the surface, Lutris is a simple game launcher. When you want to play games but haven't decided what to play, you can search here. With Lutris, you can add all the games on your system to your game library, then launch from the Lutris interface and play it right away. Even better, Lutris contributors (like me) regularly release installation scripts, making it easy for you to install your own games. This is not a must, but it can be a great shortcut to bypass some tedious configurations.
Lutris can also be run with the help of a runner or subsystem to run games that cannot be directly launched from the application menu. For example, if you want to play an open source game console game like Warcraft Tower Defense, you must run the emulator. If you have installed the emulator, Lutris can help you with it all. In addition, if you have a GOG.com game account, Lutris can access it and import the game into your game library.
There is no easier way to manage your game than this.
Go and play the game
Linux Games are a fulfilling and powerful experience. I used to avoid playing computer games because I didn't feel like I had too many choices. It seems that expensive games are always being released and inevitably get good or bad extreme experiences, and then quickly move to the next one. On the other hand, open source games have introduced me into the game circle. I've met other players and developers. I have met artists and musicians, fans and promoters. I've played all kinds of games that I never knew. Some of them weren't even enough for me to play for the afternoon, while others made me fascinated by games, modifications, level design and fun for a long time.
If you are ready to put down popcorn and experience the game from all angles, start the game on Linux.
via: https://opensource.com/article/21/2/linux-gaming
Author: Seth Kenlon Topic Selection: lujun9972 Translator: godgithubf Proofreading: wxy
This article was originally compiled by LCTT, and Linux China Honors launched
