I've been gaming exclusively on desktop Linux for more than a decade.
All my games work, either natively or (more often) using some variant of Wine. Most Steam games work with very little tweaking or none at all.
I occasionally have to apply workarounds for broken Battlenet updates (I run Blizzard games without Steam) but this doesn't happen very often and usually only takes a couple days for the community to figure out a workaround. The last few updates haven't broken anything new.
Games with certain anti-cheat systems, especially kernel-mode ones, are known not to work. I don't care, because I wouldn't allow such invasive and dangerous things to run on my hardware anyway.
It's always possible, but in my experience, the magnets in those graphics card stands aren't strong enough to hurt the data in a hard drive slotted below them. (Let's also remember that fans containing magnets are often placed near hard drives.)
If you're concerned, you could always replace the magnet with a rubber foot, or replace the whole stand with nonmagnetic cylinder like a cut-down paper towel spool. The graphics card's weight will probably hold it in place.
In any case, I recommend regularly making incremental backups of your data. Hard drives occasionally corrupt data and eventually die even when no magnets are around.
For anyone else reading this who plans to use Debian Stable for gaming, you really should enable Stable Backports. This gives you the option of newer drivers, kernel, etc. (you pick what you need individually) without having to give up the low-maintenance stability of the base system.
All the major desktop distros play games about as well as one another, assuming you set them up correctly.
Choose a distro based on other criteria, like the release cadence and admin tools that you find most comfortable. If you don't have any particular needs or preferences, I guess you could save 10 minutes by choosing a distro that installs Nvidia drivers by default, but it's not going to run games appreciably better than the others.
Please use Lemmy’s cross-post feature when you want to post the same thing to multiple communities. This avoids flooding members of multiple communities with duplicate posts, and helps people discover related discussions in different communities.
Unfortunately, no archive site manages to archive every article before a paywall goes up. I've had the best luck on archive.org by selecting the earliest snapshot they have.
Even if you get past the loop, the fact that archiveis is now using third party CAPTCHAs means that their provider can track your interests: They can correlate the page you came from, the archived content you wanted, your browser fingerprint, your IP address if not using a VPN, etc. If it's a big provider like CloudFlare or Google (spoiler: it is) they can also correlate all that with a significant chunk of your non-Lemmy web browsing.
Please use Lemmy’s cross-post feature when you want to post the same thing to multiple communities. This avoids flooding members of multiple communities with duplicate posts, and helps people discover related discussions in different communities.
“The current Early Access version also falls short in terms of content volume.We are deeply disappointed by the former leadership’s conduct, and above all, we feel a profound sense of betrayal by their failure to honor the trust placed in them by our fans.”
This statement seems manipulative to me. As a Subnautica fan, I have always been interested in quality of content, not how fast it gets created. I can wait for a good game. Krafton is trying to disguise their own profit-driven expectations as if they came from me and others like me, deceptively using us as pawns in guilt-laden psychological warfare against the people who have been developing the game.
It also claimed these websites had seen cumulative downloads of 3.2m in just three months this year - from 28th February and 28th May - resulting "in an estimated loss of $170m".
In other words:
They assumed that every download was by someone who would otherwise have paid over 53 USD for it, which by itself is an absurd delusion.
They described imaginary money that they never had in the first place as "losses", which is a plain lie. You can't lose something that you never had.
Given that both these blatant falsehoods match the propaganda that big media parasite corporations started pushing a few decades ago, it seems pretty clear who the taxpayer-funded FBI is working for.
I've been gaming exclusively on desktop Linux for more than a decade.
All my games work, either natively or (more often) using some variant of Wine. Most Steam games work with very little tweaking or none at all.
I occasionally have to apply workarounds for broken Battlenet updates (I run Blizzard games without Steam) but this doesn't happen very often and usually only takes a couple days for the community to figure out a workaround. The last few updates haven't broken anything new.
Games with certain anti-cheat systems, especially kernel-mode ones, are known not to work. I don't care, because I wouldn't allow such invasive and dangerous things to run on my hardware anyway.
Welcome to the party!