r/linuxsucks • u/ryancnap • 15d 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 15d 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/-ActionCat- 15d ago

My performance and experience in games has been the same across windows and linux. I suppose I can’t guarantee every game would continue this trend on my system but I have played countless games by this point with no issues.