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Valve has been doing a lot of work here lately, they've essentially made Wine into a first party citizen of Steam (in the form of Proton). So Wine is stable & e
by biggestdecision 8y ago
Valve has been doing a lot of work here lately, they've essentially made Wine into a first party citizen of Steam (in the form of Proton). So Wine is stable & easy enough for non-tech users - at least for gaming purposes. But there isn't the equivalent for general software yet.
- xbmcuser 8y agoThey just opened proton to non steam software in the latest beta. And from what people have been posting it works with a lot of windows applications.
- SmellyGeekBoy 8y agoThat said, I was attempting to run a Proton game a few weeks back and it kept failing silently. Running from the terminal revealed a missing dependency, which I apt-getted and now it works fine. So while I agree that Proton is fantastic, there's still some work to be done in making it more friendly for "non-tech" users.
- JetSetWilly 8y agoIs it not the case that if you use the steam runtime then libraries should be there? Ultimately valve are targeting steamOS not linux as a whole. Some linux distros (eg arch) have a package that bundles the steam runtime which should make such issues go away.
- chupasaurus 8y agoSteam runtime doesn't have every lib ever made, can collide with libraries in the system, and game devs might not include some dependencies because of licenses without notice. I think GP had the latter case.