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Very old games are a problem for windows and have a significant higher chance of running out of the box with proton on linux

• sitzkrieg 1y ago
  can you provide an example?
  • bombcar 1y ago
    I think he means that trying to run some early win16 games will fail on windows, but run fine in emulation/wine, etc. But of course, you can run dosbox on windows, too.
  • HideousKojima 1y ago
    The 2008 Prince of Persia is easier to get running through Proton than on Windows. For the Windows Steam release you have to disable the Steam overlay and some other tweaks to get it working
  • ThatMedicIsASpy 1y ago
    Every time people tried to make 20-30 year old games work I quickly test them on my Linux machines if they are available on the internet archive and so far they have worked out of the box every time. The last one was a German point and click game from ~28 years ago. Adding them to steam and forcing proton is also simpler than something like bottles for me. People try to run them on W10/11 and they won't start, the windows compatibility layer hardly gets them up and running.