The beloved lightweight distro
I've been debating making the switch for a long time, but after spending like a week researching Proton, Lutris etc. on Linux, I decided to try it out and nuked my entire Windows 11 drive. :)
So far, every game I threw at it works perfectly fine, including Elden Ring & Cyberpunk.
I had to spend a little time troubleshooting some small issues but it's part of the fun!
Specs are in the neofetch, my compositor / WM is Wayfire (Wayland) :)
howwwwww. i have a pretty nice amd chip and radeon graphics card, on arch with wayland. i get stuttering, which i read was normal, on my more intensive games like dead space. deep rock galactic i can't play with my friends and it also stutters...what were the small issues you troubleshooted?
My man just went from 0 to hero in one single tap! Nicely done.
It took me like a couple months (4'ish) to start using Arch Linux.
It's not my first distro, as mentioned below, I've tried pretty much every "mainstream" distro. I tried Arch on a pal's computer a few years ago, practiced installing it in a VM and kept it for a few years. I went back to Windows when I built my gaming PC before I didn't know how far Linux gaming had gone. :) So i'm already very familiar with Arch, just not with Window Managers like Wayfire or Hyprland, learning one config file at a time!
@MrShelbySan I would love to be able to leave Windows for Linux just sadly I can't with needing certain apps like Adobe to be useable on it.
Is dual booting not an option?
Oh that's very understandable. I have some small, niche apps I'll keep using in a QEMU VM (which I need to get around to setting up..) myself.
@MrShelbySan Yeah VMs seem to very complex to me so I haven't quite got into them just yet but it looks like I'll have to look into them as otherwise I won't be able to run half the programs I need.
How do you install non-steam games? Specifically Cyberpunk and Eve Online?
Just a heads up, Eve works but it’s pretty flaky. It’s working better then it was a few months ago but I still can’t play more then maybe 15-30 min before it just totally crashes. A lot of time when leaving stations it freezes for awhile and a lot of the game assets don’t seem to always render in. Sometimes opening the menus or settings crashes it, for some reason opening the map and selecting jump points is really bad about causing freezing. Trying it again about a week ago I lost a ship because the game froze then crashed mid fight and when I managed to get back in my ship was destroyed.
That's not really playable then when the risks are as high as they are in Eve. Thanks for the heads-up.
lutris. even has a little button to add it to steam.
This is basically the recommended way to install Eve these days.
At one point when they were testing what is now the current launcher it worked flawlessly on Linux because it was based on Qt and they were compiling a Linux binary for it. It fired the game up in Wine and all was great.
They dropped that support fairly quick though sadly once it became the actual new launcher.
You probably want to replace your neofetch with fastfetch from AUR :)
Does Archcraft provide rolling releases like e.g. Manjaro?
Archcraft is just a slightly modified version of Arch Linux, so it's rollling release. Manjaro is based on Arch Linux. Manjaro holds back updates for 2 weeks, however. I haven't heard very good things about it, but feel free to correct me.