Running Elite Dangerous on Linux Mint in 2024

[Van-Blurten]

Switched to Bazzite mid Feb and loving it. Joystick wise I use Thrustmaster T Flight Hotas-X and although it's detected by ED it refuses to work, it does however work perfectly being run as a generic joystick.

As a side note the other games I play run fine, WoW, SWToR, Football Manager, Stellaris, Civilization 5.
Linux really has came on since I last tried it about 8 yrs ago.

 

[Feitochan]

Switched to Bazzite mid Feb and loving it. Joystick wise I use Thrustmaster T Flight Hotas-X and although it's detected by ED it refuses to work, it does however work perfectly being run as a generic joystick.

As a side note the other games I play run fine, WoW, SWToR, Football Manager, Stellaris, Civilization 5.
Linux really has came on since I last tried it about 8 yrs ago.

Just as a little side note, Stellaris has a native linux version as do a lot of other games which is why it runs fine without the need for proton (although there are some games with native linux versions that don't work as well as the windows version).

 

[Agony_Aunt]

Finally made the switch yesterday.

Had a moment of panic when the Windows install that i had turned into a VM imported but wouldn't boot and no amount of mucking around would get it to work. Fortunately, I had also kept the .vdi for the drive, so moved that onto the partition, created a VM for it, and it booted first time. Phew!

Strange issue with the Realtek network card - from a cold boot its fine, after a reboot though it always reports "No cable connected" - really bizarre. No amount of resetting the interface will resolve it, only power off then back on. I'll have to investigate that at some point.

ED launched first time just using winetricks, not even proton and gave me a smooth high quality 60FPS. Quite surprised didn't need proton. However, installed proton and will test that, but game is current undergoing an update, so will have to do it later. Might also give gloriouseggroll a go at some point, although seems like its not necessary.

Issue! - Wine detects joysticks just fine, but when i launched ED, the game couldn't see. Exited, went back to Lutris, and control panel sees the joysticks, if done from Lutris control panel settings, but when i looked at the control panel from the game settings, they weren''t visible! However, just looked again, and they are visible. Now just wait for the game to come back online and will try again.

 

[Agony_Aunt]

Update:

Joysticks detected... ugh, now to configure controls.

Also got EDMC setup.

New issue!!!

Gamma, and also seems related problem with hovering over new messages on main menu. When trying to change gamma an overlay window seems to pop up, and i can't select the slider or even exit with the mouse. Guess this is because its a new window over the game and xinput or whatever is clicking through the gamma window to the layer below.

Anyone got any idea how to fix this?

EDIT: Fixed it in the config xml... actually probably too bright now

Still doesn't explain why the new messages thing doesn't open though, so still think there's something wonky there.

 

[EdzUp]

Made the switch last week but nothing on steam would start just launches and drops back to steam, turns out Linux doesn't like NTFS formatted drives (windows) so copied all me important data to a external reformatted it as a Linux drive and copied it all back now everything runs.

I would say 100% of everything I tried worked, some needed a few command like tweaks on steam others performance is in the single digits FPS (HumanitZ) but it all runs though. ED is running beautifully and I made my maiden voyage a couple of days ago from Barnard's to Bhritzameno and it was amazing and freeing.

Everything I need is currently working fine on Linux so over the coming months Windows will be relegated to the past as I move to a new chapter, it's nice to have a OS where you have the freedom to tinker and it doesn't block you with GUI elements at every turn.

Some games run better in Steam on Linux using the following in the command line (under properties for the game)

DXVK_FRAME_RATE=60 steamdeck=1 gamemoderun %command%

Dont get me wrong I am no Linux guru just different things I have tried on my exploring using Linux over the last few days

 

[Agony_Aunt]

All bindings done at last, things all working well except for the main menu new message box. EDMC working as a flatpack.

Here's a pic.

 

[Agony_Aunt]

Made the switch last week but nothing on steam would start just launches and drops back to steam, turns out Linux doesn't like NTFS formatted drives (windows) so copied all me important data to a external reformatted it as a Linux drive and copied it all back now everything runs.

I would say 100% of everything I tried worked, some needed a few command like tweaks on steam others performance is in the single digits FPS (HumanitZ) but it all runs though. ED is running beautifully and I made my maiden voyage a couple of days ago from Barnard's to Bhritzameno and it was amazing and freeing.

Everything I need is currently working fine on Linux so over the coming months Windows will be relegated to the past as I move to a new chapter, it's nice to have a OS where you have the freedom to tinker and it doesn't block you with GUI elements at every turn.

Some games run better in Steam on Linux using the following in the command line (under properties for the game)

Dont get me wrong I am no Linux guru just different things I have tried on my exploring using Linux over the last few days

Nice.

Rgarding NTFS, the NTFS filesystem driver is stable enough for stuff like storing files, but yeah, you don't want to be running things from it. My external USB drive is still on NTFS which i use for films and other stuff. Easy to move it to a Windows laptop or another comp when wanting to move data around.

In theory, an NTFS drive could work, or be made to work... risky though.

Another thing you can do to share data between windows/linux is use xfat. Its basically Fat32 without the limitations of Fat32 and works well with both Windows and Linux.... but again, for storage is ok, for gaming or work, best use ext4 or similar.

 

[Feitochan]

Another thing you can do to share data between windows/linux is use xfat. Its basically Fat32 without the limitations of Fat32 and works well with both Windows and Linux.... but again, for storage is ok, for gaming or work, best use ext4 or similar.

If you don't want to use external drives to share files, there's a program called warpinator which allows files to be shared between computers over the network that has a windows variant called winpinator.

 

[Agony_Aunt]

If you don't want to use external drives to share files, there's a program called warpinator which allows files to be shared between computers over the network that has a windows variant called winpinator.

For sure, its just in this particular case i do have an external drive i use to store stuff on anyway

 

[BetaToaster]

turns out Linux doesn't like NTFS formatted drives

There's two possible problems with NTFS:
1) There's two NTFS drivers for Linux:

• ntfs-3g, a fuse driver which generally works fine.
• ntfs3, an in-kernel driver which still has a bunch of issues.

So you'd want to make sure you install and use the former.
2) Wine/Proton is picky about ownership of the wineprefix directory, see here for details and a workaround

My guess would be you ran into (2), but using a proper unix file system -the way you did it- is indeed the best solution either way.

I'll second Agony_Aunt's recommendation to use exfat if you need something Windows (or macOS, or whatever) can read. It doesn't support permissions, but that's usually not a problem if you want to share files.

 

[Agony_Aunt]

I'll second Agony_Aunt's recommendation to use exfat if you need something Windows (or macOS, or whatever) can read. It doesn't support permissions, but that's usually not a problem if you want to share files.

I like my filesystems to be promiscuous!