On Windows, the go-to emulators are Bluestacks and NoxPlayer (both closed source), especially when gaming is concerned. Unfortunately they are not available on Linux, and the Nox devs’ dismissive attitude towards Linux also makes it unlikely they’ll ever make a Linux port:

screenshot showing Nox support staff stating: "94% of our market is on PC. 4.999999% are on Mac. 0.000001 are on Linux. It makes no economic sense for us to dedicated man hours to build a Linux version."

So apart from trying to run these two using Wine, what emulators are out there on Linux that yield a sufficiently decent performance to make Android games playable?

EDIT: looks like Waydroid is a winner, see the comments.

  • Skull giver@popplesburger.hilciferous.nl
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    1 year ago

    Yeah, somehow Nvidia fucking it up wouldn’t surprise me. Most of my kernel issues have somehow come back to Nvidia.

    Lots of gamers will have Nvidia cards, though, so if it is, it’s good to know this beforehand.