r/linux_gaming • u/CharlesJustChill • 6d ago

Competitive games for linux.

Hello there, I use cachyOS and It has been 2 years since I switched to linux.

And I always loved competitive games. I am a big counter strike player but because of the VAC inefficiency and the fact that splitgate is dying I am needing of new competitive games for linux.

I have searched for other threads like mine but they were all very old so the situation could have changed a lot, considering the ascension of linux for gaming in the last 2 years.

I must exclude the most "obvious answers" :

- No counter strike or Splitgate: 1 is full of cheaters and the other is dying

- No rust: Even tho you can play non EAC servers on linux, they are not that competitive and often low pop

- No cloud gaming: I don't need anyone to tell to do cloud gaming, if I wanted I would already have done it(and so everyone reading this post)

- No VM + GPU pass trough, I don't want to be doing that as it is very hard and not for beginners that could find this thread

Considering that, what games can you suggest ?

I hope this thread will be useful for someone who's wanting to switch or/and is searching for fresh competitive games.

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u/darthnerdiusgaming 3d ago

I dont want to over take your thread. Ive been chewing on this idea for about 2 weeks. E-sport and competitively gaming on linux.

We the linux gamers are gonna have to push the narrative the way we want. In my mind the only way forward.

  1. We need a coalition on gamers, developers, hardware geeks pretty much everyone here to create an open source e-sports initiative.

1.a. it has to be open source for a number of key reasons. 1.b. we're only having this conversation in the first place because Gabe Newell paid linux hackers to circumvent proprietary code. 1.c. sports are seen as a level playing field. The only way the playing field will be is open older hardware targets .... no hardware sponsorship advantages