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I admin linux systems all day at work, and in my spare time on my home lab rackmount setup that lives in the spare bathroom, and I say that to make clear that I'm extremely comfortable with Linux. I got a gaming laptop recently and loaded Ubuntu onto it, and was very underwhelmed with the gaming performance on it. My SteamDeck ran many of the games better, and there were a bunch issues with the OS not being able to keep the integrated graphics card vs the discrete one straight (e.g. switching the load order on reboot, making games constantly try to run on the integrated card), that just made me eventually give up and put Win11 on it. At this point, I'd love for Valve to release a "SteamLap" gaming system, because clearly Linux needs that tight control over the hardware config to get games working well.
Well that's unfortunate. I guess different hardware and configs can really make all the difference. In my case I'm using a desktop with no integrated graphics at all, so no chance of that particular problem happening. This build is all-AMD and using Wayland.
I've only had two small issues thus far, across the dozen or so games I've tried on this setup. Both were very easy to fix, though one is worth mentioning as it's loosely similar to yours: in Valheim literally every time I started the game it'd default to the wrong audio output and I'd have to manually switch it back.
Sorry to hear about your own bad experience. Given the rate at which the desktop ecosystem keeps improving, however, and marketshare creeps up, I'm sure in a few more years it might be worth giving it another shot with your setup.
Yeah, it was frustrating because using Ubuntu for gaming on it was the main reason I got the laptop, but I couldn't deal with changing launch options in steam every time I rebooted. Hasn't soured me on Linux gaming, still hoping for that bright future. :)
I definitely see how that'd be an annoyance. Glad it hasn't soured you long-term on it though.