Bottles, Gaming and Other Windows Apps on Linux

#linux #gaming

Gaming on Linux can either be a cake walk or walking on glass. I've experienced both sides of the coin.

The Right Distro

If you search "Best Linux distro for gaming" you'll get a handful of ones that tout "works out of the box" such as...

I did give Garuda a try and was impressed by the n00b friendly installation of OS and apps, but there was still basic GUI issues when I would wake the computer from sleep (black/white static screen). Instead of trying to work out the bugs, I wanted to return to a Debian based distro

PopOS seemed like clear winner with Nvidia drivers baked. Everything was peachy the first week or 2 of use, but afterwards It would be super slow to cold boot, simple apps such as the folder explorer and software store would take 2-3 min to load each time. Updating software sometime took hours (not sure if just GUI bug or literal slow downloads). I just had it after troubleshooting on and off.

Surprise surprise I come crawling back to Linux Mintas my go-to distro.

Nvidia Driver

As of writing this I installed the nvidia-driver-535 recommended for my GTX 1070. There is a higher nvidia-driver-545 but everytime I attempted to reinstall this it would fail and revert to the open source nouveau driver

update flatpak after driver

After you update the gpu driver, also run flatpak update to make sure the sandbox drivers are also up to date. I would get openGL missing and or (ERROR) Unable to load libGLX_nvidia.so.0 issues

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