this is exactly me every time i’m showing someone how easy it is nowadays to run games in linux, only for the game that was running perfectly the previous night to throw some random error and crash my system
It’s always best to try it well ahead of time even if it’s just for having that shader cache setup and ready to go.
Also trying to get trainers to run is a bit of a nightmare. I use steamtinkerlauncher for that and it’s hit or miss I’d say.
The only things I can’t play on linux are games with heavy kernel-injected anti-cheats and racing games (AC and BNG). Everything else “just works”. Hell, I even managed to get Overcooked’s cross-platform version to work.
If by AC you mean Assetto Corsa, it works, you just have to follow a guide (it’s easy, you have to remove the Proton data for the game from Steam, then install the older Proton version, run the game with this older version until it crashes, then switch to new version of Proton and run it again. It will install required dependencies and will run fine, even my old G25 steering wheel worked without problems)
Obligatory areweanticheatyet.com/
And protondb.com
“ah shucks, Windows Update just initiated a reboot without asking, guess I’m out for the night guys”
There’s no shame in dual booting. Moving all your non-gaming stuff away from windows is a big step in the right direction.
Yeah give me a minute to install and setup proprietary Nvidia drivers, Retroarch, PCSX2, Lutris, Steam and Wine-staging along with all of the necessary dependencies. Worth it tho
I always hear people say they sometimes have issues with games but I’ve switched to Linux relatively recently and I still haven’t had a game in my library that didn’t play.
Ever since Valve started kicking it for Wine/Proton, gaming has been a cinch.
Meh. I definitely had issues getting bg3 working well on Linux.
Eventually I switched to windows and it was a nightmare of different and worse issues.
Back to Linux, found a fix. Sweet.
Literally me when I was trying to get League working on Kubuntu on an 8-year old laptop lol
uses Linux
wants to run proprietary Windows Games on it
I don’t need to adhere to the FOSS philosophy in the extreme to be allowed to use Linux
Thats not the point. You buy Games by Developers with limited resources. They dont care about FOSS you could say, in many cases. So you are unsupported.
Linux runs Linux Apps, its Essence is that it is a free OS, that you can trust.
Running proprietary stuff made for other Platforms is interesting but a Battle. It makes no sense you could say.
It makes Sense for Valve, as they save themselves Billions in Windows Licenses and they can make a tailored device. And they sell Games.
For you, paying for Games and then working to make them run, I dont know.
Not that I dont like the idea, but its the job of Developers to make the Games run.
Sure… Which is why Valve has built Proton, which makes nearly all PC games run on Linux… Sure, the developers of the games themselves should have made the Linux port, but for many developers it’s cost prohibitive to support another platform with very few potential customers.
But the more players who run Linux (and Steam Deck by extension), the larger the incentive for developers to support Linux natively. And in turn more games will get made for Linux, which will draw in more people to switch to Linux.
So as long as my game runs, then I don’t care whether it was the original developer, Valve or an open-source developer why wrote the code that made it work. And luckily I’m one of those people that don’t mind having to tinker a bit to make things work (hence why I’m on Linux in the first place)
If we as gamers stubbornly refuse to switch to Linux until our games are natively ported, then developers might as well just develop their games for Windows, where the players are…
Well, too many Linuxians tell us it should work “flawless” because “gaming on Linux has improved sooo sooo much!”
This meme would be so relatable if I had any friends.
Friends are capitalistic propaganda to make you easier to manipulate and control into working long hours so that some guy called “CEO” can show off all of his green pieces of paper to his friends /s
Average linux user
Friends are overrated, comrade!
Well it’s getting better, and fast imo. When I started using Linux some 4 years ago I could barely play anything in my library. If the game had online functionality in any way, chances were it didn’t run. That has gotten a lot better imo but Proton is still not where it needs to be. But things change and from what I, as a consumer, can see it seems like the biggest problem now are invasive Anti-Cheats rather than anything fundamentally breaking the games.
Edit: but yeah, it sucks when shit ain’t working and the small fraction of stuff not working is still a bit much to swallow
Anyone playing Outer Worlds, the Spacers Choice Edition? Suuuper annoying issues, I might actually install it on Windows instead
you sure it’s not just the Spacers Choise edition? AFAIK that version of the game is (or at least was? I dunno) pretty broken on all platforms.
Well, yes. Which is why I mentioned the Spacers Choice edition.
It doesn’t seem to have the same specific issues on Windows though, apart from generally performng worse than anyone would expect it to.
So I reckon I’ll just try and see for myself if that’s true. Because the problems many Linux users (me included) seem to have according to ProtonDB make the game borderline unplayable.
Sometimes not even borderline.
Break free of proprietary friends ^^
Battlebit Remastered T_T
It runs amazingly on linux, I have about 40 hours on the official release, and about 200on the beta all linux.
I tried like 6 Proton versions when there was that F2P weekend and it was impossible even to get the anticheat installer to work on Ubuntu 22.04.
IDK what I was doing wrong.
Ubuntu, there is your answer.
On a serious note, are you sure you had the anticheat runtimes installed?
This right here. I’ve spent a few hours troubleshooting why I can’t play Hell Let Loose, which also uses EAC, even though it should support Linux. Turned out, that you need to specifically search for (in your Library) and install “Proton EasyAntiCheat Runtime”, which is a separate game that for some reason didn’t get installed when you install the game.
I suppose it’s going to be the same with Battlebit, because I’m sure I played it on Linux and had 0 issues.
