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With proton, this is less and less the case.
Indeed, God bless proton
Basically, I tried proton and I’ll never go back.
The overhead of windows is so heavy
what is proton? what does it do?
Proton is a translation layer that uses Wine and other tricks to allow you to run Windows games on Linux. It’s a Valve project that is making a ton of progress on compatibility. It’s a huge part of the success of the Steam Deck.
Was amazed at how good this is.
I’ve recently installed Linux. Have a hdd full with steam games (for windows) Is there any way to get that to work without needing to format the drive and install the games again? Looked a bit at it but every article seems to suggest formating the drive to get it to work with proton.
It’s technically possible but not recommended as the NTFS format has some quirks under Linux. Give yourself the best chance at everything working and do full reinstalls after a format.
“Has some quirks” is putting it mildly. I had a couple of drives that I thought were dead because I kept getting errors. I reformatted them to ext4 and they were fine.
I think the real gamechanger was Vulkan. OpenGL was just not suited for this.
Hey, not my fault Valve’s vr support sucks on Linux.
Jokes aside, are there still games that doesn’t work on Linux? I haven’t met one in over a year.
Some games with intrusive DRM or anticheat. Also VR is pretty bad
I bet that wife wishes she has anti-cheat.
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I’ve had issues with vr games, mostly playable, but way less consistent and I’ve gotten motion sick when I haven’t on windows. Though I last tried a year or so ago, so it could have improved
I’m very proud to announce that 98% of my steam titles play perfect on my gaming Linux setup. I main Pop!_os and I love it so much.
Tarkov runs perfect but its 3rd party anti cheat doesn’t support Linux so it’s not playable online.
Certain games from the Xbox Microsoft store like halo wars 2 cannot run on Linux, PC or Xbox only. Very few exceptions. Couldn’t he happier. I highly recommend it
Same here. Ended up deleting my windows partition altogether after a few months.
Games that calculate a lot of pathfinding or similar in the GPU will end in a CPU-melting stutter fairly soon when run on Vulcan.
Satisfactory is a good example or this: It quickly becomes unplayable with any halfway complex setup.
If you’ve got a Linux native version, then you’re fine.
Huh, I haven’t had any issues with satisfactory
Nah Linux is too cool to care if you use other operating systems or not. It’s Windows and Mac that react like this.
So you’re saying Linux is a cuckold?
When you don’t use windows for a few months, you’ll feel like that on first boot. ‘Oh, you haven’t used this program on your desktop in a while (lists entire desktop). You want me to clean it up into a folder, because you don’t use it anyway? I would also like to attend you to some urgent updates you need to install right now, and after that I have updates for your updates waiting, like 3 increments in a row with reboots each.’ And of course, during the chore of updating, Edge appears and becomes your default browser. Take that you dirty cheater!
Edge appears and becomes your default browser.
I have to use Edge at work and after a recent update it disabled the adblocking extension I used because “it might have been tampered with”. It also offered a nice Repair button which…uninstalled the extension completely.
Edge is hostile to its users and should never ever be used.
It is not hostile it is abusively helpful! It will force you into the best experience of the web, just sit still you silly goose!
That just reminds me why I left in the first place. Bye!
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But hey, he opened a new tab for you (What’s new in version xxx; Thanks for using firefox…) so you can go looking right away! 😂
Everything I want to play runs on Linux and the couple that don’t are because of EAC, which I can’t be bothered with. I’ve completely cut Windows out of my life.
I’m in the honeymoon stage but I’ve left win 11 behind earlier this week. Jump full into it I am loving pop_os… the tiling feature is a refreshing thing I didn’t know I needed. I’m hooked to it already. Flatpak is something else new for me that I’m really enjoying the thought of. Really like all the seamlessness of the virtual desktops too. Pop calls them workspaces. I can send windows to another workspace. Keep selectef ones on all workspaces. I’m a devops that has been using wsl for anything I needed Linux locally for since it came out. Now that I know how to interact with Linux and my remaining Windows infrastructure at work (primarily Ad) I am full into it. The only game I’ve spun up on it so far was cyberpunk 2077 and it runs great on it. Got Plex going, virtual machines, docker/podman, the foss possibilities are awesome. Really enjoying freetube right now too.
Heck several games the do use EAC work now. Valve flexed some muscle and got compatibility with Proton pushed through.
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Ubisoft sucks. I’m still mad that they to this day refuse to add Linux compatibility to The Crew 2 despite BattlEye supporting Linux. It’s basically the only game I have that I can’t run on Linux due to an anti-cheat, and I really miss playing it since I like open-world racing games… Their launcher also doesn’t run on Wine last time I tried, either. (I hope that at least changed since then?)
You know, here’s the funny thing about Ghost Recon Wildlands.
Ubisoft and Riot really need to have a talk, because the Valorant anticheat fucks with the Ubisoft anticheat. In the end, I couldn’t even run Wildlands on Windows until I uninstalled Valorant and its anticheat. It’s too bad that such a fun co-op game is stuck behind some of the most obnoxious “protection” on the market.
I have a Quest 2 VR headset that I use for playing sim racing like Assetto Corsa, and flight sim on Xplane 11. To use that I have to open up Meta’s Quest app, connect the headset to the computer over the WIFI, and it sorta functions like a monitor. In that I can view the whole Windows desktop environment on a virtual screen floating in VR space. When you open a VR game like Xplane you stop seeing the floating monitor, and it takes over the whole VR eye space for the duration you play it.
Is this type of thing also possible on Ubuntu? If so, I’ll shitcan Windows ASAP.
Quest 2 owner here, your best bet is trying ALVR as virtual desktop straight up doesn’t support Linux, but honestly YMMV. I daily drive linux and have done so for awhile now, I’ve found performance for most games these days, usually runs on par with Windows. But I found the performance for VR much much worse (with a 6700xt}. . Not to mention I was getting a long standing bug that valve hadn’t fixed in fucking years on SteamVR in linux the last time I tried it. Although maybe that’s changed since SteamVR 2.0.
I’d happily try again if my quest 2 didn’t have mad stick drift and no amount of cleaning the contacts seems to be fixing it :(
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I have a dualboot because I had something to finish that couldn’t be realistically moved to Linux because I put the required files all over the Windows system instead of 1 easily movable folder. Anyway, I am lazy to finish that. It’s been 2 years since I booted up that Windows.
But PKHeX is a .exe! What am I supposed to do, figure out Wine? XD
What is there figure out? You install wine and double click the exe. It’s not 2003 anymore.
PKHeX actually does not work on Wine out of the box, it’s one of those programs that are esoteric enough to not run on Wine even with today’s advancements. You need to do some tricks to get it working - namely installing an old build from late 2018 and manually install .NET Desktop Runtime 7 without using winetricks.
Well I used it last year and had no trouble at all.
Assuming you actually had trouble getting PKHeX to work on Wine, thankfully I managed to get it working! (Well, okay, I followed some instructions someone on Reddit posted long ago lol)
Basically, you need to install an old build of PKHeX (22.12.18, you can download it here: https://projectpokemon.org/home/files/file/1-pkhex/?changelog=6855), and manually install .NET Desktop Runtime 7 (i.e. not from winetricks, but from the actual Microsoft page). It will then work normally, even if you do the trick of renaming it to PKHaX. Hope this helps!
Thanks for the help!
This is fake, where is the wrong system time? 😂
Has anyone got Apex Legends running smoothly on Linux ?
I run xfce on debian 12 and when the game loads - it’s not smooth enough for me to play.
My hardware is - i5 10400f , GTX 1660 Super, 16GB RAM
Back in 2010s, I had to open Windows to game. Now all games work out of the box with Linux, thanks to wine, vulkan and dxvk.
I started to get better 5 years ago. These days it’s at least 60-70% where Windows is with respect to gaming. According to protondb.com, 78% of the top 100 steam games (and 75% of the top 1000) are directly playable on linux with no or very little tweaking required.
Nowadays I felt dirty whenever I boot into Windoze, that’s why get rid of it
My Windows partition is a vm that has its own 4060Ti and that I use via looking glass.
So it should behave or the host will just kill it off.
