• peopleproblems@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      I know it’s not the best, but Proton has come a long, long way. I can play D4, Monster Hunter, factorio, lots of stuff.

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        I’ve been testing the waters with my steam deck. There are some hiccups, but almost everything I want to play can be done with proton.

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        1 year ago

        It is really fantastic. With steam almost all the games i bother playing just works. Deleted the windows partition years ago.
        Just have to check the community forum how well it works before buying. Or just get a refund if it does not work.

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        I know it’s not the best

        Didn’t pay thousands for top of the line ryzen and nvidia gear for “not the best” gaming situation.

        Linux falls short on two major fronts, less idiot proof, less gamer friendly, and that’s Windows’ largest market shares, idiots and gamers.

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          It’s almost issue free with the exception of the publishers explicitly blocking it because it doesn’t allow them to add a rootkit to your system.

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          Lmao, most games have better performance on linux so you can’t claim it’s not the best

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              There’s another launcher that I’m forgetting the name of that will launch Epic and GoG games. Following that proton guide should make NTFS (windows) drives usable for anything in Linux though. I can boot games downloaded from “alternate sites” if I add them to steam as “non steam games” regardless of how the drive is mounted.

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            1 year ago

            There’s still the issue of overhead and such. Like I want to ditch windows forever, but Linux is just not 100% there yet with gaming. It’s very close though.

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      There hasn’t been a single game I’ve struggled to run in the last few months on proton. I haven’t had a windows PC in like a year ish or more?

      I play games heavily too.

      Try it out sometime if your setup isn’t extremely niche and maybe you’ll find it to be accommodating.

      The weirdest things I’ve had to do are click a box in steam to enable proton usage and reinstall something in Lutris for Battle.net on world of warcraft.