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Linux gamer since 2020 here. While obviously not perfect, things are getting better at amazing speed. Between Linux getting better and Windows getting worse at
by bilegeek 4y ago
Linux gamer since 2020 here. While obviously not perfect, things are getting better at amazing speed. Between Linux getting better and Windows getting worse at compatibility, your 3-year timeline looks very doable.
Though multiplayer games will remain a pain point for the foreseeable future, due to anti-cheat shenanigans.
(Also, sometimes the compat is there, but figuring out how to enable it is a pain. d3dx* being a good example; for me, it was selectable in winecfg menu, but wasn't installed until I figured out winetricks. Steam and Proton issues are much less obtuse.)
- jorvi 4y agoAFAIK the two big services (BattlEye and EAC) both already support Proton. Off the top of my head, the biggest games not supporting Proton due to anti-cheat are Destiny 2* and Halo Master Chief Collection, and Halo MCC is actively being worked on by Valve & Microsoft. *despite running BattlEye now, the Destiny devs have a deep-seated trauma from their game being derailed by cheaters for the years prior before BattlEye, and thus make very obtuse choices like not allowing overlays or not flipping the BattlEye Proton switch and allowing Destiny 2 to run on Proton
- bilegeek 4y agoThose services support Linux, but like you noted, not all the games that use the services do. (adding to your Destiny example, Fortnite has explicitly been denied[3] Linux support.) [1]https://nitter.unixfox.eu/thebattleye/status/1441477816311291906 https://nitter.unixfox.eu/thebattleye/status/144147781631129... [2]https://areweanticheatyet.com/ https://areweanticheatyet.com/ [3]https://nitter.unixfox.eu/TimSweeneyEpic/status/1490519194915459072 https://nitter.unixfox.eu/TimSweeneyEpic/status/149051919491...