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Any recommendations for low-end, Linux-friendly games to play? (beehaw.org)
submitted 1 year ago by Witch@beehaw.org to c/gaming@beehaw.org
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Hi everyone! So I just switched to Linux and I am a little unsure of what to play on my laptop.

It's a presumably decent laptop, 16gb of ram and Iris Xe, but I find that it has battery issues trying to play anything fancy like Skyrim.

I'm looking into things like emulation, finally tackling my Itch.io backlog, and bringing out old classics.

I like RPGs and text-based choose your own adventure games, so if you have any recommendations I'd appreciate it!

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[–] Witch@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Wait, what? Is that why everyone's recommending steam deck games? I assumed Steam Deck verified games required something like, an okay GPU. Its actually the voltage? That definitely makes my life easier, lmfao.

[–] Hexarei@beehaw.org 4 points 1 year ago

Well, the TDP of the chip is only part of the equation; The main thing is that the Deck is limited in performance in ways that your laptop likely is not, regardless of clock-for-clock differences.

[–] yetanaika@feddit.cl 3 points 1 year ago

By the Steam Deck's site, the verification means that:

  • It plays well with the Deck's inputs
  • Can use the Deck's native resolution or similar (1280x800 or 1280x720) without issues
  • It "just works" without having to tinker with the game
  • Every component of the game is supported by Proton if running a non-native game
[–] dovahshy@lemmy.pt 1 points 1 year ago

Intel Xe doesn't seem that bad, specially compared to older Intel GPUs (UHD 630-like). Correct me if I'm wrong, but they're basically low power versions of Intel Arc. I still don't think they're on level with a RDNA 2 GPU like the Deck one.