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this rarely happens, but when i run into a game that doesn’t work i - check protondb.com to see if someone else has already found a solution. trying different proton versions can sometimes help as well

BSD based operating systems work fine for a lot of things. A huge majority of people only use their computers to browse the web, write documents and read their e-mail.
Something like GhostBSD would work perfectly well for this, though afaik GhostBSD is just FreeBSD with a different default configuration.
Though you are not going to be able to do much that involves proprietary software, like playing video games. Unless you use Wine or a proprietary BSD based operating system like that of Sony’s or Nintendo’s game consoles, or Mac OS.
I’m actually thinking about installing OpenBSD on my laptop, though I would not recommend doing this to anyone who just wants to stop using Windows.

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You can try playing Minetest, it’s not a game on its own. More like a game engine. One of the most popular games for it is Mineclone 2. Though you will likely need to run your own server if you want to play the game online with a friend.

Looks like lemmy doesn’t accept posts with attachments.
I tried to send a screenshot of a settings for accelerated rendering in steam. I don’t think i’ll make a difference, but turning it on is worth a try

doubt this will do anything, but have you tried turning this on?
(posted again because the edit didn’t federate and i forgot the attachment)

Most modloaders work by tricking the game into loading a dll file by giving the dll file the name of another dll file the game actually needs. (dsound.dll for example)
But wine ignores these custom dll files by default because it has its own custom implementations of the libraries that use dll files with those names and prioritizes those.
You can change settings with winecfg to make wine load the modloader dll files anyway, I don’t remember exactly how to do this for a proton prefix, but it shouldn’t be difficult

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Proton works very well for me. I don’t play any games that use anti cheat though.
A lot of games that use anti cheat middleware don’t work, but I’ve heard support is improving.
I use Debian Testing. I recommend using Testing as well if you want to use Debian, or at least a custom kernel like xanmod to get newer drivers.

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No idea, honestly. I’m guessing winetricks downloads the actual WMP, which would explain why it’s not included by default. Not sure though

A lot of games rely on Windows Media Player to play videos. So that needs to be accurately reverse engineered for videos to work properly through Wine and Proton.
Support is slowly improving.

And the Unity game engine supports very few video formats on Linux. So lazy native ports with MP4 videos won’t work, they would probably just crash the game. Unity doesn’t support MP4 on Linux.

fair, but they are all part of the same network. I’m not using lemmy, kbin or mastodon. but I can still send messages here

Not that I’m aware of. I think it’s just short for fediverse

most people call it fedi