Hi,
My name is Marco and I am a first time user of Linux. I am an avid gamer and have become severely disappointed in Windows after upgrading to 11. I always wanted to switch Linux but gaming support (My primary use of my PC) was limited.
So far I am liking it but I am new to this and will have lots of questions as I navigate my way to installing games and apps.
Thank you,
Gaius Marius
Welcome
garuda dragonized is able to play steam games. sometimes you need to play with the different versions of proton to get your
game to work. but once it works, you’ll be surprised at how well it runs.
hope it works for you. i go between the “other” o.s. and this.
welcome to the woderful world of Linux!
As a early Apple/Mac (late 80’s & 90’s), then Windows gamer from around 1998 untill this March when Valve finally shut the door on Windows 7 running Dota 2…
most issues I have had switching to Garuda XFCE have been trying to run/use/learn Linux on old hardware.
Basically if your graphics card uses a relatively new and still-being-updated/supported graphics driver, you should be able to do most of what you want and any issues can be solved fairly easily… if you run into any at all. 
I don’t suggest trying to run Vulkan on the nvidia 470 driver series currently if you have a GTX660 Ti like i do 
, but that’s 12 years+ old and even the non-nvidia cards from that era run better it would seem (at least Vulkan… the card runs other stuff fine but it really doesn’t like Dota 2 especially but even rendering other things using vulkan like wayland an other games had some bugs for me that i’ve been trying to troubleshoot full time, 5 days a week since April 2025… 
i finally gave up; installed WINE and just ran whatever [dota 2] in directx but im still trying to optimize my old pc for it (fighting a lot of XFCE desktop lag when STEAM runs in the WINE windows explorer emu, and some stutering in game in dota2 though i’ve mitigated enough to make it mostly playable, 97% of the time… still would like to eliminate the last stutters since they can cause 1 second freezes at quite inopportune moments during 5v5 ranked games).
I am barely above the minimum required specs for DotA 2, but i can run it with a playable 15-25 fps. I always laugh when i see people complain about FPS drops from over 140 or 200 down to 30-60. Especially since your eyes barely see more than 60 afaik, and at one time i did some tweak or installed some file when trying to get dota 2 working with vulkan on Garuda that had my fps somehow magically unlocked or something and running 50-80 fps… but something else went wrong i think and when i re-installed the OS i forgot to bookmark that one tweak and haven’t been able to find it since 
I’m starting to think i’m just not getting everything i can out of my gfx card and i need to go through all my BIOS settings one by one, super carefully, AGAIN, as well as XFCE/nvidia setup… AGAIN,
but i do ramble on, and this was a WELCOME post!
Welcome my friend!
