At present, mainstream Linux systems are mostly used for program development, and few are used for leisure and entertainment applications, such as watching movies, listening to songs, reading novels, and playing games.
Some game-loving friends who are new to Linux often ask me: "Can I play games on Linux?" The answer is: "Of course." To be precise, it is possible to play games on Linux, and even some large-scale online games, such as: League of Legends and World of Warcraft. But not all games can run on Linux. Why is this?
First, we divide the games into the following categories:
1. Linux native games
2. Windows games
on Linux 3. Mobile games on Linux
4. Games in the browser
5. FC(nes) games
Native games refer to games that officially support Linux. These games have native Linux clients and can be installed on Linux without additional steps like other software on Linux. For example: Portable Linux Games (https://portablelinuxgames.org/) is a website that gathers many Linux games. The biggest advantage of this website is that you can install these games offline, which is suitable for killing time.
If you want to play online with three or five friends, the following method is recommended.
We can install Steam on Linux (The Steam platform is currently one of the world’s largest comprehensive digital distribution platforms. Players can buy, download, discuss, upload and share games and software on this platform.), which means we can Play games with players from all over the world on Linux. The Linux version of Steam is recommended to run on Ubuntu, but it can also run on other major distributions. If you really love Steam, you can also use SteamOS, a dedicated operating system for playing Steam games.
We can use Wine. Baidu Baike introduced that it is a compatibility layer that can run Windows applications on a variety of POSIX-compliant operating systems (such as Linux, Mac OSX and BSD, etc.). Steam developed Proton on the basis of Wine, and the multi-threaded performance of the game has been greatly improved. Check Enable Steam Play in the Steam settings to play Windows games. After two years of iteration, almost all mainstream Windows games on Steam can be installed and run on Linux, and most games have no frame rate difference. Not only that, the finished patch in .exe format can also be implemented normally. However, the actual operating status is also related to the hardware configuration and system environment. Currently, only Biochemical 3 under DirectX 12 cannot run, and it can still run after switching to DirectX 11. By querying Proton's dxvk, it can be inferred that the highest version of Proton 5.0 currently supports dx9~11 games, but does not support dx12 games.
In addition, the graphics driver configuration is also a problem. At the very least, it will be as effective as windows immediately after it is installed. The main reason here is that some manufacturers (such as nvidia) are unwilling to provide open source drivers, and the closed source drivers they provide are generally more cumbersome to install. This is also the biggest disadvantage of using Wine to play games.
Here is an app that can run Android applications on Linux-Android compatible runtime environment (xDroid). It is a basic service product exclusively created by Beijing Linzhuo focusing on the ecological development of the Linux platform. It aims to integrate the mobile application ecology and the Linux application ecology by providing a compatible operating environment for mobile applications, and to support the seamless and transparent operation of massive mobile applications on the Linux platform. Provide a rich application ecosystem for the Linux platform, especially the domestic platform Linux. In this way, basic support libraries such as input methods, audio and video codec libraries, and related devices such as keyboards and mice that come with the Linux platform can be perfectly integrated into mobile applications, which is equivalent to native Linux applications. For example, King of Glory and Stimulating Battlefield can run well on Linux. main advantage:
1. Completely desktop the mobile application, perfect desktop application experience
a. Free scaling of the mobile application interface, breaking the size limit of the mobile phone screen
b. Support multi-window display of the application, the user experience is extremely smooth and stable
2. Support mobile application, mobile and Seamless interaction, calling and switching between desktop applications, complete integration of mobile and desktop.
a. Start QQ Music (mobile application), you can call QQ login
b. WeChat files and Linux files can be transferred to each other
3. Fully compatible with domestic software and hardware platforms and common PC peripherals to meet various user needs.
a. Support a variety of domestic equipment and processors
4. Adopt unique technology to optimize all-round system performance, with ultra-high performance.
a.3dmark running score is super high
Here is an introduction to the basic function of the product-keyboard mapping (implementation of custom keyboard key mapping operation interface buttons).
The operation interface is as follows: The
red frame part of the game has been set to the disk mapping setting, how to achieve it? Click the " 
" icon on the left to open the keyboard mapping setting interface. Select the appropriate virtual button on the rightmost button and drag it to the top of the game skill. The arrow keys here are WASD by default, and other buttons can be set according to your preferences. For detailed introduction, please log in to Linzhuo's official website .
I won’t go into too much here, because you should also know that there are a lot of web-based games that can run on any operating system, whether it’s Windows, Linux, or Mac.
For me, FC (familyComputer) games are some childhood memories. Although there are so many different kinds of games now, they are still obsessed with fc games.
How to play FC games on Linux?
First we need to install a simulator (Fceux)
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install fceux
If you can't install it, you can try the following command:
sudo apt --fix-broken install
sudo apt-get install fceux
After installation, click file->open ROM to open the downloaded game. The games here can be found online, for example: 52nets . Finally, you can play the game as much as you like.
