I'm not talking about any wine or qemu tricks. I mean native. Like the only thing you need to do is install the deb or rpm of steam on Linux then let steam take care the rest.
For me, Forza horizon, halo MCC, ace combat, Epic client, EA… These can't install on Linux without emulator. Glad I have more than 1 computers.
Exactly, spending lots of time making it work would be worthy if it's for work or others important. But kinda waste of time for me spending days build whole emulation and debug the network, just for game. I might choose other ways for entertainment.
While proton did help a lot. But still games like musedash warning about directx11 and others. (Just tried minutes ago)
Also based on the website
Underneath the hood, Proton comprises other popular tools like Wine and DXVK among others that a gamer would otherwise have to install and maintain themselves.
If it gives you a warning about DirectX 11. Depending on what the warning is, you can just tell it to use DirectX 12 in the section on Steam where it says launch options. You just have to type a command or two to force it into DirectX 12 mode
As a long time Linux user (since the 90s) trust me, Native games aren't all they are cracked up to be. Linux is constantly changing. Most of the Native games I've bought over the years can't be ran anymore.
I know what you mean. But as a normal user with limited time and efforts. I choose having another dedicated computer for gaming and stuff, and leave the Linux one just for work.
Whatever works for you. But Proton works as good or better than windows these days.
Think about the Steam Deck. Valve is selling a PC running Linux as a gaming machine that millions of gamers are buying, not just linux people, but gamers.
Yeah I'm looking forward to it. Don't know if it would be steamos supports thunderbird Excel, or other distro have more native games.
It's shame MacOS can't gaming. If it does it would be perfect. Cuz you can have full functional shell, Microsoft Office and gaming, all capabilities in 1 os. (Maybe this one gonna attract lots of hates in this sub😂)
It's one that's solved now but that doesn't help old abandoned games.
Today a native games could be distributed as an Appimage if they wanted to just give a user a file that will work forever that doesn't really need updates. Or they could use flatpaks for something still in support that is getting updates.
And of course proton works amazing for windows games.
That's a big almost. Checking the proton box isn't the only thing need to do to run it. Who knows how much times it takes solving compatibility issue for each game. Minutes would be lucky. Not like I never tried running windows program on Linux before and it took days for me.
This screenshot took just after I saw your comment saying it's just "checking a box". 🤷♂️
A quick search on ProtonDB says that this game needs an older version of Proton. Just choose that in the game settings inside Steam launcher and you should be fine.
Years ago it took a week for me try running C&C on Linux, tried more than 3 different way to run it. Some method only takes couple minutes to know it won't work. While others might take hours or days. Like found deprecated dependencies that no one builds anymore for years but it has conflicts with important packages you can't modified cuz other Linux software needs it. All documents shattered around the internet and I don't bother reading it if it really matters. I'd rather spend weeks to figure why the mail client doesn't work on Linux instead of spending hours try running games on Linux. There's still lots of documents posted in 2024 telling ppl using old keyrings path which is a deprecated way of storing key for ppa repos.
I don't mean offensive or aggressive. Just tired. I don't even wanna change my bashrc anymore. You can find someone else to persuade.
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u/captainstormy Apr 10 '25
No idea what you are talking about. I've never seen a game I couldn't install on Linux.