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> comparative difficulty of setting wine+steam Which difficulties are involved in selecting a Proton version from a dropdown and clicking install? I only boot

> comparative difficulty of setting wine+steam Which difficulties are involved in selecting a Proton version from a dropdown and clicking install? I only boot windows to play VR. Gaming on linux is easy* compared to the early days. Nobody messes around manually with wine instances anymore, dude; wine/protontricks is a thing. (98% of the time at least). [*] Easy for the games that run on Proton, which according to ProtonDB is ~70% of the titles on steam (those with silver+ rating). Edit: I should mention, I swore off AAA gaming years ago, so that likely contributes to my satisfaction with linux gaming. Really, though, nothing of value was lost to me.

olliej 3y ago
> Which difficulties are involved in selecting a Proton version from a dropdown and clicking install? That it doesn't exist on macOS? The point I was making is that the overwhelming number of games on steam are windows only games, the valve semi-supports on linux via proton, which they do not offer on macOS. The net result is anyone jumping through hoops on macOS to use steam+wine is recorded as a windows user, even if there were even remotely meaningful number of such users. Hence linux steam users matching macOS steam users is an obviously plausible outcome.
- thefurdrake 3y ago
  Oh! That makes sense. Hoping to see more movement on Mac compatibility in the future, but even with the recent game porting tools, I won't be holding my breath. It's sad, these laptops seem like they'd be decent for casual gaming (One of my main computers is a MBP. I use all the OSes.)