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With proton, this is less and less the case.
Indeed, God bless proton
Basically, I tried proton and I’ll never go back.
The overhead of windows is so heavy
I think the real gamechanger was Vulkan. OpenGL was just not suited for this.
Was amazed at how good this is.
what is proton? what does it do?
Proton is a translation layer that uses Wine and other tricks to allow you to run Windows games on Linux. It’s a Valve project that is making a ton of progress on compatibility. It’s a huge part of the success of the Steam Deck.
I’ve recently installed Linux. Have a hdd full with steam games (for windows) Is there any way to get that to work without needing to format the drive and install the games again? Looked a bit at it but every article seems to suggest formating the drive to get it to work with proton.
Jokes aside, are there still games that doesn’t work on Linux? I haven’t met one in over a year.
I’m very proud to announce that 98% of my steam titles play perfect on my gaming Linux setup. I main Pop!_os and I love it so much.
Tarkov runs perfect but its 3rd party anti cheat doesn’t support Linux so it’s not playable online.
Certain games from the Xbox Microsoft store like halo wars 2 cannot run on Linux, PC or Xbox only. Very few exceptions. Couldn’t he happier. I highly recommend it
Some games with intrusive DRM or anticheat. Also VR is pretty bad
I bet that wife wishes she has anti-cheat.
I’ve had issues with vr games, mostly playable, but way less consistent and I’ve gotten motion sick when I haven’t on windows. Though I last tried a year or so ago, so it could have improved
Same here. Ended up deleting my windows partition altogether after a few months.
Games that calculate a lot of pathfinding or similar in the GPU will end in a CPU-melting stutter fairly soon when run on Vulcan.
Satisfactory is a good example or this: It quickly becomes unplayable with any halfway complex setup.
If you’ve got a Linux native version, then you’re fine.
Huh, I haven’t had any issues with satisfactory
Back in 2010s, I had to open Windows to game. Now all games work out of the box with Linux, thanks to wine, vulkan and dxvk.
If only. Usually my Manjaro partition is chill, but the moment I step foot in Windows 11, it throws a pissy fit and breaks something it shouldn’t even have access to.
If Linux just calls you a cheater, Microsoft sets you and everything you love on fire to make a point.
Windows: “Looks like your bootloader was corrupted. I went ahead and reinstall it. No need to thank me, I was just doing my job. What’s that? Grub? Nope, never heard of that guy.”
Windows: “While updating I found out that some weird thing was set as first boot priority. I fixed that by setting it to myself. You are welcome!”
Nowadays I felt dirty whenever I boot into Windoze, that’s why get rid of it
Everything I want to play runs on Linux and the couple that don’t are because of EAC, which I can’t be bothered with. I’ve completely cut Windows out of my life.
Has anyone got Apex Legends running smoothly on Linux ?
I run xfce on debian 12 and when the game loads - it’s not smooth enough for me to play.
My hardware is - i5 10400f , GTX 1660 Super, 16GB RAM
Meanwhile, my Windows partition back in 2017:
I started to get better 5 years ago. These days it’s at least 60-70% where Windows is with respect to gaming. According to protondb.com, 78% of the top 100 steam games (and 75% of the top 1000) are directly playable on linux with no or very little tweaking required.
But PKHeX is a .exe! What am I supposed to do, figure out Wine? XD
Assuming you actually had trouble getting PKHeX to work on Wine, thankfully I managed to get it working! (Well, okay, I followed some instructions someone on Reddit posted long ago lol)
Basically, you need to install an old build of PKHeX (22.12.18, you can download it here: https://projectpokemon.org/home/files/file/1-pkhex/?changelog=6855), and manually install .NET Desktop Runtime 7 (i.e. not from winetricks, but from the actual Microsoft page). It will then work normally, even if you do the trick of renaming it to PKHaX. Hope this helps!
Thanks for the help!
When you don’t use windows for a few months, you’ll feel like that on first boot. ‘Oh, you haven’t used this program on your desktop in a while (lists entire desktop). You want me to clean it up into a folder, because you don’t use it anyway? I would also like to attend you to some urgent updates you need to install right now, and after that I have updates for your updates waiting, like 3 increments in a row with reboots each.’ And of course, during the chore of updating, Edge appears and becomes your default browser. Take that you dirty cheater!
Edge appears and becomes your default browser.
I have to use Edge at work and after a recent update it disabled the adblocking extension I used because “it might have been tampered with”. It also offered a nice Repair button which…uninstalled the extension completely.
Edge is hostile to its users and should never ever be used.
It is not hostile it is abusively helpful! It will force you into the best experience of the web, just sit still you silly goose!
My Windows partition is a vm that has its own 4060Ti and that I use via looking glass.
So it should behave or the host will just kill it off.
In my experience, gaming on linux has been better than on windows
It‘s really sooo much better. But it lacks in one area: PCVR. SteamVR for Linux feels a bit more janky, but that’s not really the main issue.
The issue is that, to stream from PC to the quest line of devices, you need oculus’s software, which only runs on windows.
ALVR exists, but its compression and latency are considerably worse in my experience.
So I have a small separate SSD for windows :(
