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>This was very much not my experience >While any issue with the Windows one in wine, eventually basically any issue I encounter gets patched by an active team

>This was very much not my experience >While any issue with the Windows one in wine, eventually basically any issue I encounter gets patched by an active team of open source devs, some funded by valve. We don't need to talk about your experience. Pick any game in ProtonDB that has a Platinum rating and you'll find 10 more that are lower because they have the issues I described. >games would often be broken if you didn't use ubuntu https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34634584 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34634584

Gigachad 4y ago
I could go to reddit and see every single game I play is buggy, unusable, and broken on Windows. But when I actually play them I see they are essentially perfect. The internet is great at exposing a million issues you'll never encounter yourself, often with undisclosed details about having mods or some extremely non conventional setup causing the problem. The reality is I game entirely on Linux and everything works perfect for me.
- Arnavion 4y ago
  And the reality is that I game entirely on Linux with a mix of Linux-native and Proton games. The Linux-native games work perfectly and the Proton games all have bugs.
  - blooalien 4y ago
    My experience is similar to yours, except that some of the Proton games have bugs, but still run quite excellently regardless, and most all of my Linux-native games run perfectly, but the few that don't do once Valve's "Steam Runtime for Linux" containerized thing is selected as a compatibility layer. Most games I play on Steam though just run when one clicks "Play", regardless of whether they're Linux-native or running via Proton (with the exception of those few that are still choosing to be actively Linux-hostile by purposely refusing to enable BattlEye or EAC despite Valve's efforts to make it increasingly simple for devs / publishers to do so).

Gigachad 4y ago

I could go to reddit and see every single game I play is buggy, unusable, and broken on Windows. But when I actually play them I see they are essentially perfect. The internet is great at exposing a million issues you'll never encounter yourself, often with undisclosed details about having mods or some extremely non conventional setup causing the problem. The reality is I game entirely on Linux and everything works perfect for me.

Arnavion 4y ago
And the reality is that I game entirely on Linux with a mix of Linux-native and Proton games. The Linux-native games work perfectly and the Proton games all have bugs.
- blooalien 4y ago
  My experience is similar to yours, except that some of the Proton games have bugs, but still run quite excellently regardless, and most all of my Linux-native games run perfectly, but the few that don't do once Valve's "Steam Runtime for Linux" containerized thing is selected as a compatibility layer. Most games I play on Steam though just run when one clicks "Play", regardless of whether they're Linux-native or running via Proton (with the exception of those few that are still choosing to be actively Linux-hostile by purposely refusing to enable BattlEye or EAC despite Valve's efforts to make it increasingly simple for devs / publishers to do so).