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For anyone interested in a more flexible list, there's always Protondb[0]. Works like the old WineHQ tests (right down to unplayable/bronze/silver/gold/platinum
by noirscape 4y ago
For anyone interested in a more flexible list, there's always Protondb[0]. Works like the old WineHQ tests (right down to unplayable/bronze/silver/gold/platinum rankings) where users basically report their findings and what tweaks they had to do to get things working.
They also tell you when stuff like GloriousEggrolls fork of Proton (which has a few features not in the Proton upstream) is the solution to use.
Putting that aside for a second, it's a marvel how Steam basically managed to get people to use an immutable, almost entirely flatpak-based OS that works quite well. I have one and while Big Picture has a very sporadic meltdown (usually connectivity issues with Steam), desktop mode works almost perfectly.
I've never had a moment where the filesystem being root-locked was an issue for using it, which is quite the interesting experience coming from other Linux distributions where touching the root filesystem is at some point expected to change a config file or to enable a driver. To put it simply: "it just works".
[0]: https://protondb.com https://protondb.com
- jeroenhd 4y agoProtonDB is definitely a treasure for Linux gaming and it's often more up to date than Valve's ratings. I don't bother with custom Proton packages though, I bought the thing to play games, I have a desktop and a laptop to tinker with Linux. I also refuse to disable the write lock to my system partition, because things should Just Work without root access already. The Steam Deck proves what Canonical and others have been trying to prove for years: restrictions can be good for your experience sometimes. I still despise Snap, but its model is extremely close to what Valve managed to succeed with. Fedora's attempt is even closer. I don't think I'll ever accept snap in a world where Flatpak exists, but I think sandboxes are the future for letting normal people use Linux. The simple fact of the matter is that if you need to touch the terminal or edit obscure text files to do any normal task, your system has failed and it sucks to use. Take away a dev's ability to rely on that and software seems to get a lot better. Hopefully this trend will also slowly turn people on support websites to stop telling people asking questions to open a bash shell for changing things that have buttons and settings screens, though I fear I may as well wait for the Year Of The Linux Desktop.
- kaba0 4y agoA sandbox and a container image are two different things, and in my opinion the latter is not a good path forward.
- saidinesh5 4y agoDo not forget the protondb plugin on deckyloader: https://github.com/SteamDeckHomebrew/decky-loader https://github.com/SteamDeckHomebrew/decky-loader This shows the protondb status directly on steam UI.
- LegitShady 4y agolooks like I'm going to have to install this deckyloader on mine. So far I've just been playing metroidvanias and slay the spire on mine.