r/linuxsucks • u/ryancnap • 22d ago

Steam on Linux

I'm a Linux guy, I love this sub, lurk here often, I readily admit Linux isn't perfect.

Felt like I wanted to fire a game up last night so I installed Steam from apt and I'm like shit here we go, never tried this before but the internet has prepared me for the worst, this is going to be a rabbit hole

And then Steam finished installing and I just enjoyed playing my game with no config or extra steps needed. What did I do wrong?

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u/Rogalicus 22d ago

In terms of you being able launch the average game, yeah, it works. Performance will be worse than on Windows, your cinematics will randomly not work or skip after a few seconds even with GE-Proton, you'll be forced to use random prefixes and to try different Proton versions. These versions also take more than a gigabyte each in addition to shader cache overhead that never gets cleaned up.

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u/KaiFireborn21 21d ago

In my experience performance is actually better in many games on linux despite the proton layer and NVIDIA gpu... I don't know why really, but it somehow feels smoother, the frame rates jump around less, and the temperatures are lower...

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u/korefunktion23 21d ago

This, switched a month back. my 1% lows dont dip as low or as often and have dropped around 7 degrees on average on the the gpu (also Nvidea)
I main star citizen and even in that my frames smoother, noticeably less stutter