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 Valve Proton has made gaming close to solved too. Most single-player games work great, but anti-cheat remains problematic. Almost everything I play is really smooth. Hilariously, my Windows 11 install runs games worse somehow *confused*. And I've done basically no tinkering to my Linux install, I use almost all defaults... 14 comments
@gamingonlinux I started an experiment of being Linux-only late last year as a result of how far Proton has come, and I haven't needed to boot up Windows at all since (though I have done to play around with libvirt and such). The only thing that I miss doing is modding for A Hat in Time, since while I *can* get into its UE3 with protontricks tweaks, the performance was not great the last I tried. Might give it a go again now I'm all AMD.  @gamingonlinux Same experience here. I just ignore platform requirements these days; just a quick check on ProtonDB is all. @gamingonlinux Videos can be problematic too, because a lot of recent games use H264 and similar codecs Valve can't ship. @insidertreat Ubuntu / Kubuntu are absolutely fine. People like to make this far too complicated. @gamingonlinux yeah I've done the whole complicated OS before and just thinking something easy to game on. I'll probably go kubuntu. Thanks! @gamingonlinux what's *really* confusing is many Windows games run better via Proton on Steamdeck than their native linux ports do Until you think about how much time/effort/money is invested in optimising the Windows version for the larger customer base 🤷♂️ @witewulf when you know why, it's not confusing, a lot of Linux "ports" were made by a third-party, plenty were click-to-export with no effort put in, Proton has people dedicated to making everything perform well  And those 3rd party people will not regularly update. COUGH Aspire COUGH They'd wait like a month to release their version on the CIV6 update, and it was always buggy. Game ran better through Proton @gamingonlinux I love the subtle irony of some of the problematic anticheats not even working on Windows 11 with its system integrity protection features (which it aggressively nags you to enable if they aren't) @gamingonlinux After using a launch Steamdeck for a few years, I decided to give it a go on my main PC. For the games * I * play (mostly single player, or indie multiplayer) it solved the gaming problem with linux. I'd say at this point, if you're not into big time multiplayer games, it's good to go. That being said, if you have a nvidia card..... @gamingonlinux is there anything special that needs to be installed? Or Ubuntu desktop with steam installation will suffice? |
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@gamingonlinux yeah... i've noticed that as well, some windows games run better under proton than natively on windows....