I remember when Proton launched it was like magic playing games like Doom and Nier Automata straight from the Linux Steam client with excellent performance. I do not miss the days of having the Windows version of Steam installed separately.
In the time I have been a Linux gamer, it has gone from “here is a list of games that work in Linux” to “here is a list of games that do not work in Linux.” Which some dictionaries define as “progress.”
That’s crazy! When I was last trying to run Linux full time in ~2014, you had WINE and then a commercial version of WINE (not by the WINE devs, but because WINE is licensed the way it is and is open source…) that would run a few more things, but I don’t remember what it was called.
So glad to hear it’s progressing this quickly and far.
I started out in 2014, and pretty much what I did was look to see if there was a Steam logo on the Steam store page to indicate Linux compatibility. With Proton in the last few years, I just don’t really worry about it. I will say my tastes have just about always lined up with the kinds of games, the kinds of studios, that are likely to publish for Linux, the nerd shit like Kerbal Space Program and Factorio. I don’t play Call of Fifa, Modern Fortnite or whatever.
In 2003, it was my dream to play FF7 in Linux. In 2019, my dream came true. Thanks Proton, Codeweavers, Wine, Valve, et al for helping me finally put down Sephiroth right.
Anticheat is about to force this progress backwards years as publishers push drm
Publishers who do this make shit games anyway. I see the publishers slowly fading while indie studios continue to shape the new standard of video games.
Actually most anticheat now also supports Linux with Proton
I’ve gradually gone from being peeved at Proton for not being able to support certain brands of anti-cheat, to actively avoiding games with anti-cheat solutions that are fundamentally incompatible with Proton.
The only think keeping me from wiping Windows from my machine is Ubisoft anthicheat lol
Valve literally went “you know what fuck the profits we need off Windows” and they did what nobody else has done before.
Imagine how much else humanity could do if they said that. Even just once more, fuck the profits, let’s give people a 4 day work week with 6 hours per day.
True I just moved my gaming PC to Linux and wow!! Almost all of my games run on Linux. Thank you for everyone working so hard.
This is the main reason, other than gog’s lack of support, for not going full Linux.
I buy mostly GOG games (like 90%) and with Heroic it’s quite easy.
You can use a launcher like Heroic to play games you have on gog or epic.
I want to switch but I have a Windows Mixed Reality device — will it still work on Linux?
check out the monado, they are getting it working but I couldn’t tell you the functionality off the top of my head
I remember using bare wine to play games before proton. You would have to go and find the exact libraries needed to run the game, install them one way or another, pray a bit, and maybe the game will run with acceptable fps. If it ran at all.
And these days its just plug and play. Dont remember the last time I had to install a game dependency with proton, from steam or otherwise.
most shit was literally click and play
This week I decided to try dual booting with OpenSuse again and see how much I still need Windows for gaming. Turns out: not much. For VR. And maybe for Game Pass games if cloud gaming turns out to be crap and I cannot get a VM performant enough for games.
All in all, very pleasing experience.
Unfortunately Easy Anti Cheat doesn’t agree with your allegations.
I have no issues playing games with Easy Anti Cheat or Battleye.
Can you demonstrate this claim? Which games and what setting adjustments did you make?
Halo MCC, BattleBit, and Apex Legends all work from my library without any tweaks.
If I as an older person would like to start using linux, where would you recommend to start? Is there an easy guide I can follow on how to use linux?
Linux Mint or wait for SteamOS
or wait for SteamOS
good luck with that
Yeah until you find a game which doesn’t run only because of its dogshit Anti Cheat System Service.
lol i was playing WoW on wine when most people here were in the fecal exchange phase
please tell me how valve saved gaming
lol i was playing WoW on wine when most people here were in the fecal exchange phase
Then just like me you can remember how much harder it used to be.
please tell me how valve saved gaming
No need to be a snarky dick you know.
lol i was just anticipating the fanboys.
wow was literally wine wow.exe
Jesus Christ the losers in this sub
