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what? protondb shows 44% aggregate game coverage, meaning 56% of games are not verified to be playable on linux systems. In what world is that "better". my dai
by penjelly 4y ago
what? protondb shows 44% aggregate game coverage, meaning 56% of games are not verified to be playable on linux systems. In what world is that "better".
my daily driver is PopOS and use proton for my games, i love it, but its not better, and the games do not play better on average in my experience. Nor is it fun having to do tinker steps when all i want to do is jump into the game
- arp242 4y agoThe database isn't perfect, for example Kingpin (https://www.protondb.com/app/38430 https://www.protondb.com/app/38430) is listed as "unplayable" but it does work with the latest patch without problems, at least in Wine and presumably with Proton too. I don't know how common this is though – this is just something I encountered last week – but there's a long tail of older and sometimes obscure games, quite a few of which also don't run well on Windows any more without mucking about; I wouldn't necessarily put that much stock in that number. There's also a native Linux version of Kingpin by the way; the instructions start with "must run as root" so never mind... The 90s were wild.
- eldaisfish 4y agoSomething to keep in mind - how many of the games that work have been played to completion? Too often, "working" means the initial areas in the game work.
- arp242 4y agoIn my experience if works then it works; I can't recall any specific instance in almost 20 years of wine usage where it works fine for the first hour and then stops working at some specific point, although I'm sure there are instances where this is the case. I don't think it's a significant factor, especially because there are often multiple reports.