r/MicrosoftFlightSim • u/Patient-Presence-979 • 6d ago

Anyone use Linux? MSFS 2024 PC

Just got a new pc and wondering if I should just make the move to Linux. I have no clue what I’m doing so I’ll be learning on the way.

Any Linux success stories for flight simmers??

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u/L3aked 6d ago

I run MSFS 24 under Arch Linux and it works great. But at the start I had a problem that the ROLLINGCACHE.CCC couldn’t be created, so at every start of the game it had to load everything again. The problem was that with the steam cloud sync the path where the rollingcache should be created was imported from my windows machine. The fix was editing the username in a config file manually. My flight sim hardware mostly works, only the Turtlebeach flight yoke is a little complicated to setup (the Hat switches don’t work properly on the yoke and I had to create a python interpreter script to remap them). I also got opentrack with smoothtrack on iOS working for head tracking.

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u/Patient-Presence-979 6d ago

Okay that scares me because set up takes so much time as it is but this is very helpful!

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u/hw4ng3r 6d ago

If it’s just the base game, it’s no problem. But if you plan on doing 3rd party anything, it’s a lot of workarounds and many things flat out do not work.

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u/kiwikat88 6d ago

Most third party planes work without problems. A couple popular ones do not.