Linux OS for workstation, VMs, and gaming.

NeghVar

NeghVar

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I am researching Linux distros with excellent game support but also good for use as a workstation. Gaming is the main focus, but I also do video encoding, Python, and multiple VMs (one with a passthrough GPU). So far I have narrowed it to Catchy, Pop!, Nobara, and Zorin. Any suggestions on which one has the best VM support with passthrough?
 
Possibly any of them have that capability as long as you have all of the right packages & modules required.

What type of virtualization are you aiming for? For Arch-based like CachyOS, I can probably provide enough documentation for such.
 
CrimsonKnight13 said:
Possibly any of them have that capability as long as you have all of the right packages & modules required.

What type of virtualization are you aiming for? For Arch-based like CachyOS, I can probably provide enough documentation for such.
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A Windows 11 on-demand VM for games that refuse to function on Linux. That's why there is a passthrough GPU, and there will also be a passthrough NVMe.
I am also considering testing OneDrive sync with a Tiny11 VM middleman. The VM will sync with OneDrive to folders on the VM, which are then shared so they can be accessed from the host.
A Plex server VM
With the other things I do, I can utilize both GPUs when the Windows 11 VM is not in use. How soon I begin this project depends on how soon Microsoft pushes me past my tolerance of their behavior.
 
NeghVar said:
A Windows 11 on-demand VM for games that refuse to function on Linux.
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This won't work, anticheat knows when it's running under a VM due to the increase in the number of CPU cycles to perform a given task. You either give up rootkit anticheat and run Linux, or you keep running a bare metal install of Windows
 
Mazzspeed said:
This won't work, anticheat knows when it's running under a VM due to the increase in the number of CPU cycles to perform a given task. You either give up rootkit anticheat and run Linux, or you keep running a bare metal install of Windows
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Yep. I had to give up most of my Epic Games catalog for this reason. Oh well.
 
The only multiplayer games I play are World of Warcraft and Empyreon.
Could Proxmox gett around that?
 
NeghVar said:
The only multiplayer games I play are World of Warcraft and Empyreon.
Could Proxmox gett around that?
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WoW will play on Linux without a VM with Heroic Launcher. Never heard of the other.
 
auntjemima said:
Yep. I had to give up most of my Epic Games catalog for this reason. Oh well.
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Heroic Launcher works great for most games that I play with Epic, GOG, & Amazon officially. Unofficially, Battle.net, Ubisoft, & EA work great, too. This includes many multiplayer games.
 
Yep, all my Epic Games titles run fine under Heroic Launcher, however they're all single player games.
 
CrimsonKnight13 said:
Heroic Launcher works great for most games that I play with Epic, GOG, & Amazon officially. Unofficially, Battle.net, Ubisoft, & EA work great, too. This includes many multiplayer games.
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Sure, but not ones requiring kernel level anti-cheat.
 
auntjemima said:
Sure, but not ones requiring kernel level anti-cheat.
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Depends on the implementation of the anti-cheat. Some devs have altered some games to work perfectly fine with Proton & WINE.

Have you tested any out? Referred to ProtonDB? Checked any of the Linux wikis?
 
CrimsonKnight13 said:
Depends on the implementation of the anti-cheat. Some devs have altered some games to work perfectly fine with Proton & WINE.

Have you tested any out? Referred to ProtonDB? Checked any of the Linux wikis?
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There's no point. Kernel level anti-cheat does not work in linux. The developers have also said they will not support it because getting kernel level control of a Linux machine is kinda against the basic design of it.

I'm speaking specifically about online centric games. I'm sure if I try a game that requires anti-cheat BUT has a single player mode, I can play the SP mode fine, but not the online portion. So online only games just won't work if they require anti-cheat at the kernel level.
 
jlbenedict said:
So am I reading games like Chivalry 2 won't work in Linux?
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According to protondb it does. As long as the game doesn't use one of those kernel anti-cheat rootkits then Linux will usually run it just fine.
 
Bankie said:
According to protondb it does. As long as the game doesn't use one of those kernel anti-cheat rootkits then Linux will usually run it just fine.
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Thanks! :ROFLMAO: I thought I may have misinterpreted something then about online games being problematic..
Thought I discovered something cool.. because I had been playing Chivalry 2 for past few days using the Heroic launcher :D
 
https://www.protondb.com/app/383120
Looking at the ProtonDB entry for that game. No its not going to let you do multi player on Linux.
The game can run fine, the devs don't support Linux meaning your likely to get booted if you do manage to get multi player to work.
I don't know the game, I'm not sure if there are servers you can play on and ones you can't or whatnot.
 
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