circuitfarmer

I don’t feel bad. It’s a big number, but it was spread out over 20 years. I’m sure I’d be shocked at a lot of numbers amalgamated over 20 years.

Ah yes, GTA Online now has kernel-level anti-cheat – but only got it recently. It used to work.

I’m also on all AMD. I do play almost exclusively single player, so maybe that’s the main difference.

There shouldn’t really be anything about Mint to cause such different results – even though they’re both derived from Ubuntu, I’d be curious if your experience changed with something like PopOS (more designed with gaming in mind, so could eliminate some possibility of setup issues or similar).

GTA V works fine… Played it yesterday.

Yeah it just does not mesh with my experience at all.

Driver issues?

For me, it’s 1 game out of 300 that doesn’t work. Not sure when last you have tried. Reliable Linux gaming via Proton has grown by leaps and bounds since the Steam Deck.

Haven’t needed Windows for 3+ years. Gaming every day.

My experience over the last few years of Linux gaming is: with Proton, it’s mostly a matter of It Just Works™.

When it doesn’t, switch to Experimental, and then usually it works.

Compatibility with older games is fantastic, too.

The exception to this are games which require kernel-level anti-cheat. This is a security nightmare on Windows as it is, and it simply doesn’t work on Linux. Luckily, these games are few – but they do tend to be big (e.g. Apex Legends).

I didn’t even realize it had a native version. As stuff “just works”, I find myself checking under the hood less and less.

But, good. I’ll have to fire this up again and see if I notice any difference. I thought it ran fine before.