• peopleproblems@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    53
    ·
    2 years 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.

    • nul9o9@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      26
      ·
      2 years ago

      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.

    • sep@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      17
      ·
      2 years 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.

    • Cabrio@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      11
      arrow-down
      18
      ·
      edit-2
      2 years ago

      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.

      • conciselyverbose@kbin.social
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        19
        arrow-down
        2
        ·
        2 years ago

        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.

      • ryannathans@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        7
        arrow-down
        1
        ·
        2 years ago

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

        • HeavenAndHell@lemmy.world
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          4
          arrow-down
          2
          ·
          2 years 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.

          • Bucket_of_Truth@lemmy.world
            link
            fedilink
            English
            arrow-up
            2
            ·
            2 years ago

            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.