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Steam Beta finally enables Proton on Linux fully, making Linux gaming simpler (www.gamingonlinux.com)
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[–] PixelProf@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Any solutions to replace something like Virtual Desktop to wirelessly VR a Quest 3, or any word on attempts to get Steam Link VR working on Linux? It's basically the final ligament holding onto the Windows dual-boot on my non-work PC. I've been waiting for the day I can purge Windows since using Warty in elementary school.

[–] lambipapp@lemmy.world 1 points 46 minutes ago

I have used alvr on my quest 1

[–] Ordinary_Person@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

As someone who will be switching to Mint very soon, I am so thrilled to hear this.

[–] Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 8 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

Wait. It wasn't fully supported until now? I never had any real problems that couldn't be solved by tying a different Proton version.

[–] brax@sh.itjust.works 1 points 22 minutes ago

I usually just throw everything at Proton-GE and haven't had a problem yet.

[–] rickywithanm@aussie.zone 1 points 37 minutes ago

I’m surprised by this too. Proton has been mostly problem free

[–] secret300@lemmy.sdf.org 0 points 4 hours ago

Gaming on Linux gets worse and worse every article he writes

[–] drdalek@lemmy.dbzer0.com 102 points 1 day ago (18 children)

Bro, I'm so fucking close to removing Microsoft from my life

[–] Raffster@lemmy.world 5 points 4 hours ago

Do it. You'll be asking yourself why you haven't done so a year ago!

[–] drdalek@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 hours ago

Currently backing up, moving to Zorin Core after work!

[–] redwattlebird@lemmings.world 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I'm a few months into Linux Mint on my gaming PC and love it; 99% of my games work. The only one that doesn't so far is FiveM but that's because the devs appear to be very anti-linux unless you're hosting a server.

[–] BackgrndNoize@lemmy.world 3 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Is there a way to confirm which games in your library will work well on Linux for your specific hardware, gaming is the only thing keeping me on Windows for now, I'd be happy to get rid of windows if I could run most of my games on Linux and the rest maybe I can run on Wine or a virtual desktop

[–] mrvictory1@lemmy.world 5 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Not for specific hardware but you can sign in to ProtonDB with your steam account and get an overview of your entire steam library. For online games there is areweanticheatyet.com, you will have to check games manually. AMD, Nvidia (9xx and newer) and Intel iGPUs (Skylake and newer) have roughly the same compatibility, performance differs usually favoring Windows on Nvidia.

[–] seekpie@lemmy.seekpie.nohost.me 4 points 4 hours ago

To add, ProtonDB usually has the user's specs next to their reports, so you can try to find reports with similar specs to your computer.

[–] Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 54 points 1 day ago (10 children)

Do it, just don't play the games that don't work on Linux. I switched 15 years ago and didn't look back. There are so many games at this point why bother with the ones that only work on Windows?

[–] nfreak@lemmy.ml 28 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The only game I actively played that didn't work on Linux was destiny 2, and switching to cachyOS has really helped me kick that toxic game out for good.

[–] meekah@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

For some reason it seems to me like toxic games are less likely to run on Linux compared to the average

[–] skulblaka@sh.itjust.works 5 points 6 hours ago

It comes down to how much the publishers care about their own product. Devs shoveling third party kernel anti-cheat into their product often cause those games to be Linux incompatible. Devs bundling their own unnecessary launcher with the game and requiring it to run the launcher in order to run the game sometimes cause those games to be Linux incompatible. It often isn't even the devs themselves making this decision, which is why I blame the publisher more than the developers in most cases.

But with how robust Proton has become these days there isn't a whole lot outside of those two cases that will make a game not run on Linux. It's pretty intentional at this point.

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[–] luxliminal@piefed.social 3 points 22 hours ago

If not for work I'd already be there

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[–] beerclue@lemmy.world 20 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (7 children)

So if I turn on the global setting, does it mean it will run native linux games with proton as well? I'm mostly playing rimworld and project zomboid, which have native Linux builds.

[–] Baleine@jlai.lu 24 points 1 day ago (1 children)

No. To use the Windows build you need to specifically request it in the game's properties

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[–] tal@lemmy.today 79 points 1 day ago (7 children)

The title is a bit click-baity.

Steam had a setting where it would only run Proton on games on which it had been verified to work. Some people would inadvertently flip this setting off. Now the setting is gone, so they can't accidentally do this.

[–] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 4 points 12 hours ago

It was the other way around. The default was to run proton-enabled games, but not random titles, unless you enabled proton for everything via the toggle ("enable for all titles") which was off by default.

Now it's on by default and the switch is gone, so it's can't inadvertently be switched off.

[–] Feyd@programming.dev 126 points 1 day ago (4 children)

That setting defaults to off. Changing the default to on means new users won't have to figure out it exists, and shows confidence in proton

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