GamerOS 17: SteamOS Reborn

I have spend a lot of time testing out a newly discovered distro called GamerOS. This distro gets it's latest packages from Arch and bundles them together into a read-only image which can then be updated atomically. For those with Nvidia graphics cards, GamerOS has the latest 440.82 released April 7th. Those are AMD cards are not left out. AMD works very closely with the Linux kernel and Mesa graphics  people, no need to even worry about proprietary drivers. The same is true for systems with Intel HD graphics too.

So far I'm having pretty good results. The windows games that work- work and the games that don't-don't. It does not get any simpler than that. I think I forgot to mention before that the developers of this particular distro maintain their own whitelist (certified to work games) with small tweaks and quality-of-life enhancements on a per-game basis. 

Here are 4 GamerOS:17 certified games.

Middle-earth: Shadow of War 

I do own Middle-earth: Shadow of War Definitive Edition on Xbox One. If you've played the original Shadow of Mordor you will be pleased to hear that this is just like it but better... in some aspects. The Shadow of Mordor is a Linux native game, meaning there's no need for proton. Middle-earth : Shadow of War runs as expected.

Yakuza Kiwami

Yakuza Kiwami is an action-adventure video game developed by Sega. I hear a lot of comparisons about Yakuza being Shenmues spiritual successor over the years on YouTube, podcasts and other places across the world wide web. I am a hardcore Shenmue fan. The two games are not similar. Yakuza is a beat-'em-up with an emphasis on combat. Shenmue is a detective-style game with an emphasis on story. Yakuza Kiwami played at a solid 60fps all the way, everything on max settings. 

TEKKEN 7

I don't own this particular game on PC. But the franchise has always been a blast. Marshall Law and Kuma are my favorite characters. The game runs perfectly on  ultra settings 60fps at 1080p out of the box.

F1 2019

F1 2019 is the official video game of the 2019 Formula One and Formula 2 Championships. I'm not much of a racing fan. I can only  tell you the two guys on the cover art  Sebastian Vettel and Lewis Hamilton. Flawless. No Stutters. No artifacts. High Settings 1080p game play. On a side note, F1 2017 is a Linux native game, no need for proton.

As a reminder here's my test system..

CPU:  Ryzen™ 7 2700
GPU: Powercolor Red Dragon RX 5700
RAM: 16GB (2 x 8GB) (PC4 19200)
MOTHERBOARD: ASRock AB350M Pro4 (BIOS 5.90 2019/7/5) 
STORAGE:  Intel 545s Series 2.5" 256GB +WB Blue 1TB 7200 RPM 

Linux 5.6.3
Mesa 20.0.4
Nvidia 440.82
Steamos-compositor-plus 1.5.1
Steam-tweaks 0.3.2
Steam-buddy 0.4.6

Everybody can find part one and part two of my earlier post here...  ( part one part two )