Gaming on antiX: recommendations?

[Member techore]

It’s been a long time since I attempted to use Steam or one of it’s alternatives on Linux.

Love recommendations, references, or opinions on Steam, Lutris, or alternative.

I have access to both AMD Radeon and nVidia Geforce GPUs.

Thank you!

[Member ModdIt]

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Hi techore, not a gamer,
NVidia debian packages have been broken for a while, the drivers I need for some users too,are
set to a wrong/non existing X library version. Maybe a mail to debian bugs from you could help to wake
the devs from their slumber. The situation is a regression. Last time devs woke up when PhilM from
manjaro and one other heavyweight kicked in asking why no movement. Affected is definitely the backport/
Testing/sid Tesla 470 driver probably others.
On my setup the installer also tried to install the latest 5 series driver, that has been fixed.
It does not support the Kepler and other cards considered deprecated by NVidia. Mine is Kepler.
Bug report is https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1018158
There were some complaints on MX but nobody chipped in with a further nudge to devs.

Steam is reported to work fine if installed from the antix package installer.
Not sure if anything special is in the process. Easy to check with a live stick of full version though.

[Member calciumsodium]

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Hi,

antiX member @PPC had a provided a list of linux games:

https://www.antixforum.com/forums/topic/linux-games/

Perhaps this might me what you are looking for.

[Member techore]

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@calciumsodium, thank you for the post link. I’ve bookmarked it.

@Moddit, I hear you! I actually broke down and paid far too much money for a middle tier AMD Radeon due to all the time I spent fighting with nVidia drivers. Hopefully with nVidia open-source kernel modules, things will get better over the next couple of years.

reference: https://developer.nvidia.com/blog/nvidia-releases-open-source-gpu-kernel-modules/

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The open sourcing of Kernel modules is part of an arrangement with business partners Red Hat Ubuntu and SuSe.

It will not help owners of older Video Cards. At present for many owners inactivity on bugfix by debian devs
is the issue. requiring a non existing package, backporting buggy update to wreck more bullseye installs then
fix has no priority. Sad times. Yes I am frustrated sad and angry…

Please note the below part of the Nvidia statement. Open sourcing also relates only to the Kernel Modules,

Addendum: not the more than one million codelines propriety blob of the official drivers.

Customers with NVIDIA Turing and NVIDIA Ampere Architecture GPUs can choose which modules to install.
Pre-Turing customers will continue to run the closed source modules.

The open-source kernel-mode driver works with the same firmware and the same user-mode stacks such as
CUDA, OpenGL, and Vulkan. However, all components of the driver stack must match versions within a release.
For instance, you cannot take a release of the source code, build, and run it with the user-mode stack from
a previous or future release.

changes are for the kernel modules, while the user-mode components are untouched.
The user-mode remains closed source and is published with prebuilt binaries in the driver and the CUDA toolkit.
Quoted parts from https://developer.nvidia.com/blog/nvidia-releases-open-source-gpu-kernel-modules/

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[Member techore]

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ModdIt wrote:

Please note the below part of the Nvidia statement. Open sourcing also relates only to the Kernel Modules.

I hear you and nVidia’s lack of _vision_ is why I made the difficult decision to move to Radeon with my last workstation build.

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Just to round this a bit, recently Debian had some kind of workshop and fixed Nvidia,
there was also a vote to support non free drivers so hopefully things will become better
or more stable.

I am now using NVidia 40 driver with a Debian 18 Kernel, the kernel because at installation
it was latest and it supported my NVME drive and adapter better than the antiX kernel.

Not sure if nosystemd affects steam but well worth a try to run it, https://wiki.debian.org/Steam
is a good place to read.

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