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My experiences with single player games have actually been quite a bit better on Linux since I made the switch then they ever were on Windows. A lot of Windows

My experiences with single player games have actually been quite a bit better on Linux since I made the switch then they ever were on Windows. A lot of Windows users seem to forget just how much fiddling is actually required to get games working that are only a couple of generations old. Alt-Tab often broke a lot of games too. More games on Linux just work out of the box in my experience, and it's getting better all the time. I'm not fond of crediting Valve exclusively for this gaming utopia since it was a massive team effort from a wide variety of developers, but it was clear that a powerful player was always necessary to crack Microsoft's monopoly.

blooalien 1y ago
> I'm not fond of crediting Valve exclusively for this gaming utopia since it was a massive team effort from a wide variety of developers ... Yeah, Proton is built from many puzzle pieces. Massive kudos to Valve where credit is due for assembling those bits (and for contributing patches / code back at the upstream projects), but the various projects (WINE, DXVK, etc) on which Proton was built deserve their credit as well for sure. No way Valve would have built all that is Proton entirely from scratch (at least certainly not in the time-frame they were working with).
extraduder_ire 1y ago
If support for older games gets bad enough, remember that wine supports running on windows.