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I want to switch to Linux for gaming, but I need an accessible desktop environment (rblind.com)
submitted 6 months ago by MostlyBlindGamer@rblind.com to c/linux_gaming@lemmy.world
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I switched to macOS pretty for all my day-to-day, development and work uses, but still have a Ryzem+RTX (I do use Ray tracing features) desktop that I only ever use for gaming anymore.

I play games from Steam, GoG, Epic, and occasionally Xbox Game Pass.

The big problem here is I’m visually impaired and need a desktop environment that will let me consistently use a lime green mouse cursor and zoom in full screen via keyboard and scroll shortcuts.

At the risk of 1) nobody having actual experience and 2) the current Linux distro/DE ecosystem being hopelessly broken, what should I try?

I also only have some 2 hours a week for videogames. I can’t afford the time to tinker, after the transition and setup period.

I’m perfectly happy with “you’re outta luck, buddy, just suffer through Windows,” but I figure it can’t hurt to ask…

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[–] ch00f@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I'd recommend Ubuntu mostly because it's going to be the easiest to get working. I recently started playing with Proton on Ubuntu, and it was surprisingly painless. There's been a lot of improvement over the past few years.

Take a look at https://www.protondb.com/ and search for your games. It'll let you know how difficult they are to get working and give you tips on helping them run.

Here's the visual impairments page for stock Ubuntu:

https://help.ubuntu.com/stable/ubuntu-help/a11y.html.en#vision

There's stock magnifier support. It's not great to be honest, but it does allow you to enable crosshairs that will make it easy to find your cursor.

A little more searching found Magnus which might be a better option.

It's also pretty trivial to install gnome tweaks https://itsfoss.com/gnome-tweak-tool/ and install custom theme elements like high contrast icons and cursors that can help.

[–] MostlyBlindGamer@rblind.com 5 points 6 months ago

Ubuntu is actually particularly terrible: Snap packages (general controversy aside) theme the cursor, so my mouse kinda disappears into them. It’s nice to know people are making alternative magnifiers though - that one doesn’t work for me because I need full screen zoom, but it may be handy for others.

Thanks for reminding me of ProtonDB, that’ll be a good tool to evaluate this possible move.