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> I'll stick with being forced to use it for games only. Steam just got an upgrade that automagically runs a lot of games via a modified version of wine (calle

> I'll stick with being forced to use it for games only. Steam just got an upgrade that automagically runs a lot of games via a modified version of wine (called proton) sometimes even with better performance than on Windows. It's worked very well for everything I have tried it with so far. So that just leaves games not available in Steam. The biggest of which has to be Blizzard, however a lot of their games already worked decently well with Wine, so hopefully proton works with them as well. As of today most games may actually already run better on Linux than on Windows.

gassed 8y ago
Proton is open source, isn't it? I'm sure you can convince it to run a Blizzard game. Not sure about the results though. D3D9 WoW works very, very well under wine-d3d9[0], but D3D9 support was dropped from WoW a long time ago. Can't say anything about the rest of Blizzard games. [0] https://packages.gentoo.org/packages/app-emulation/wine-d3d9 https://packages.gentoo.org/packages/app-emulation/wine-d3d9
- therein 8y ago
  As I mentioned on somewhere else on this thread, the problem with Blizzard games and other multiplayer games you may want to play on Linux under Proton/Wine/whatever will fail to join the actual online games because anti-cheat like Battleye don't support Linux because Battleye on Windows loads a kernel module.
jamesgeck0 8y ago
> As of today most games may actually already run better on Linux than on Windows. I think that may be overselling it quite a bit. Every time I've checked to see how a game I'm currently playing would run, there are always caveats. Like random crashes in Rise of the Tomb Raider and Monster Hunter World.
- benjaminjackman 8y ago
  It hasn’t been my experience most of the games I’ve tried have worked pretty flawlessly but I also don’t play a lot of AAA games.
kingaillas 8y ago
I've tried running Grim Dawn and Rise of Nations after every steam update (I opted into Steam Play's proton beta and get reasonably frequent steam client updates now) and no luck so far. I've migrated my daily driver to linux, a large amount of gaming to linux and/or consoles, and am down to a handful of games that only run on Windows. If that gap closes then I can get by with Windows in VMs only.

gassed 8y ago

Proton is open source, isn't it? I'm sure you can convince it to run a Blizzard game. Not sure about the results though. D3D9 WoW works very, very well under wine-d3d9[0], but D3D9 support was dropped from WoW a long time ago. Can't say anything about the rest of Blizzard games. [0] https://packages.gentoo.org/packages/app-emulation/wine-d3d9 https://packages.gentoo.org/packages/app-emulation/wine-d3d9

therein 8y ago
As I mentioned on somewhere else on this thread, the problem with Blizzard games and other multiplayer games you may want to play on Linux under Proton/Wine/whatever will fail to join the actual online games because anti-cheat like Battleye don't support Linux because Battleye on Windows loads a kernel module.

jamesgeck0 8y ago

> As of today most games may actually already run better on Linux than on Windows. I think that may be overselling it quite a bit. Every time I've checked to see how a game I'm currently playing would run, there are always caveats. Like random crashes in Rise of the Tomb Raider and Monster Hunter World.

benjaminjackman 8y ago
It hasn’t been my experience most of the games I’ve tried have worked pretty flawlessly but I also don’t play a lot of AAA games.

kingaillas 8y ago

I've tried running Grim Dawn and Rise of Nations after every steam update (I opted into Steam Play's proton beta and get reasonably frequent steam client updates now) and no luck so far. I've migrated my daily driver to linux, a large amount of gaming to linux and/or consoles, and am down to a handful of games that only run on Windows. If that gap closes then I can get by with Windows in VMs only.