Awesome stuff. A nitpick I have about the page though is that if it’s meant to be a highlight real of the properties of KDE that appeal to gamers, the section on classic games shouldn’t be an exhaustive list, and might instead be a summary with some examples followed by a link to the larger catalog.
It’s nice to see some love shared towards Valve who have been incredible with sharing countless improvements upstream. KDE has benefited from Steam Deck development with improvements such as Discover, faster detection of new icons after app installs, and better udev event handling.
If only other vendors making their own distros had a policy of pushing upstream rather than forking. And with Valve introducing millions of users to Plasma and putting a Linux Desktop in their hands, it is truly fantastic times for Linux right now (HDR support, DXVK, VKD3D-Proton, Proton itself, futex, case insensitive filesystem ext4, spinlock, btrfs same-fsid, kdumpst, Mesa Vulkan driver, ACO, async page flip, gamescope, xdg-desktop-portal improvements, Udisks improvements, Network Manager, ALSA, Pipewire, SDL improvements).
All available to all distros thanks to Valve. It’s been over 10 years since they committed to Linux and they have truly put their money where their mouth was.
Please consider adding the Heroic Games Launcher to the page. It’s a commendable project that gives GOG customers a convenient way to play their DRM-free games on Linux.
@kde@kde A suggestion maybe, but users who have hybrid gpu setup like me intel/amd to have option to open an application or .desktop shortcut in dedicated gpu like in GNOME. I tried it using cli everything works just missing a GUI option like in Gnome. And to make the application always open in dedicated gpu, a change in PrefersNonDefaultGPU=true in .Desktop file is all that needed. I hope that helps you guys or anyone looking for a solution to a similar setup like this.
Maybe this doesn’t exactly answer your question, but I launch all my games through Lutris, and have it set to always use dedicated GPU when launching a game.
@kde@kde Pretty sure KPatience is the game I play most of the time because I struggle to start new games a lot lately... oh and sometimes gnome 2048 I guess, hope that doesn't revoke my KDE Shill License :3
@Bro666
I'm unfamiliar with 0 A.D., though as an on again off again Minecraft player for over a decade now I 110% agree minetest needs more exposure @kde@kde@Minetest
@kde@kde SuperTuxKart! Also I think you could also highlight emulators.
Not free and open source games but I think the guide should focus more on Steam Play (maybe even show a video of how just clicking play works on a AAA game) and Heroic for Epic Games (Many people may have free games they acquired from Epic Games)
Minecraft is not free and open source software though.
Check out @Minetest. Apart from FLOSS, it is much more extensible, making it not only great for creating a wide variety of derivative games, but also a better educational and collaborative tool than Minecraft.
Agreed 👍 . And most of the games you can play on Steam are also not open source, but read the question again: KDE is asking in this concrete case for more FLOSS software that you think deserves being boosted.
My apologies. In no way was I trying to undermine your answer. I was trying to point out (maybe clumsily and untactfully) that Minecraft was not open source, so it did not fit the question. That is all.
@kde@kde Heroic Launcher (an open source client for epic, Amazon games and gog)
BAR - Beyond all Reason (sci-fi RTS built on the open source spring engine)
Ultrastar Deluxe (Karaoke-Partygame, similar to SingStar, but extensible with new songs through simple text files)
@kde@kde https://www.beyondallreason.info/ is a really really good floss rts game and i would mention lutris at same time as bottles as they both do pretty much the same thing and lurtris can even handle emulation, which i think bottles cant
@kde@kde Do you have something for android games emulation?
On windows, LDPlayer works pretty well, but I couldn’t get it to work through Bottles on linux.
@coolboymew@hj@kde@kde I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're referring to as solitaire, is in fact, klondike, or as I've recently taken to calling it, klondike plus solitaire. Solitaire is not a game unto itself, but rather any card game that you can play solitary. Other card games are also types of solitaire games such as spider, golf, pyramid, gypsy, forty theives, canfield, tri-peaks...
Yes. The Steam Deck is there because it is a game-oriented portable PC in a console case that happens to run KDE’s Plasma desktop, so it is a good option to enjoy games AND KDE software.
@kde the video on this page is 1440p with a 15k kbit/s bitrate. It is very tolling on low end devices (especially mobile) or non hardware-accelerated renderers, to the point it makes playback impossible.
Consider reducing the bitrate to ~3k kbit/s and video quality to 1080p/720p, or even automatically change the quality based on screen/window size.
@kde@kde
There are two kinds of desktop environments:
Those, who just develop their DE (e.g. XFCE, GNOME, etc.) and those who not only develop their desktop but also want to make it awesome for everyone (like KDE).