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I made the switch more than a year ago and it's been basically problem free. Almost all modern games work flawlessly through proton and I get better compatibil
by p1necone 1y ago
I made the switch more than a year ago and it's been basically problem free.
Almost all modern games work flawlessly through proton and I get better compatibility for really old stuff through lutris than I ever did on windows (I used to have to run a win 3.1/95/98 vm to play certain older games, now I just use lutris/wine).
The only stuff that doesn't work is multiplayer games with unsupported anticheat - it's always a crapshoot when something new and multiplayer launches. My backup plan for those if I really want to play them is to just get them on PS5.
- john01dav 1y agoThere's no game that I want to play badly enough to put up with DRM on consoles or rootkits (anti-chest) and DRM (windows) on my computer
- PeaceTed 1y agoThe other day I tried Midtown madness, something that has become a bit of an issue to run on Windows. It took less than a minute to install and booted first time via Wine. It is amazing seeing just how well it works and feels almost like a native binary.
- twic 1y agoThe majority of popular PvP shooters use anti-cheat which does not work on Proton, so "almost all modern games" seems like overselling it to me. But the stuff that does work, works well. I play Helldivers 2 via Proton on Fedora, and i experience far fewer crashes and instances of weird behaviour than friends on Windows or Xbox.
- newdee 1y agoARC Raiders is currently all working perfectly for me. Such a blessing. I hope it stays this way.
- tombert 1y agoThis has been my experience as well. I don't play a ton of modern games, but my wife and I played through the HD remakes of Myst and Riven, released in 2021 and 2024 respectively. I didn't even look at the Proton compatibility before buying the games because for single-player stuff then Proton has gotten so good that I almost never have to worry about it. I don't really play multiplayer games (outside of the original Doom or Minecraft with a friend or my wife, both of which have native Linux clients), so there hasn't ever been an issue for me. My gaming box is a NixOS JovianOS thing, and I even get very good results using the official Microsoft adapter for Xbox One controllers. I really feel no desire to go back to Windows at this point.
- shevy-java 1y agoWhen I was younger I also was like that. As I got older, my interests in games decreased. That and also because I am too dumb to make wine work with games nowadays; it was easier in the 32bit era. :\ But the real problem is lack of time. There are so many things to do and so little time. Today's games are also not as interesting IMO. Most of them are just "who has the better 3D engine".
- Novosell 1y agoGames these days, just as before, are fantastic. Outer Wilds, Disco Elysium, Expedition 33, Baldur's Gate 3, Elden Ring(Nightreign), etc. And I've not even listed quite a few of my favorites cause they're not popular enough for most people to have heard of them. Weird to say you don't game these days but also make blanket statements about games these days :p
- SV_BubbleTime 1y agoOuter Wilds… man, what an experience.
- Novosell 1y agoIf I could choose a single game to experience again, it would be Outer Wilds. I played it with my partner, streaming it over Discord, and it was a truly amazing ride, start to finish. Loved the DLC as well. Hearing the theme still gets me emotional and very sentimental.
- SV_BubbleTime 1y agoI should really play the DLC!
- WD-42 1y agoBG3 runs natively on Linux (sorta, the proton Linux runtime) now! Not sure Larion can do wrong at this point.
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- cannonpalms 1y agoThe unfortunate reality is that, depending on your personal preferences, "most modern games" require such a ring 0 anti-cheat. Any game that has a matchmaking mode with a competitive option requires a rootkit. As an aside, I recently found Riot Games' Vanguard installed on my Linux ESP partition... after having installed the game on my windows partition. It rooted every OS it could find mounted. Incredible.
- xandrius 1y agoModern games are not just shooting stuff in competitive mode. There exist a gazillion of other games too, without anti-cheat.
- cornstalks 1y agoGP said "depending on your personal preferences" and clearly didn't imply all "modern games" are competitive shooters.
- xandrius 1y agoThen depending on your personal preferences, all modern games are farming simulators.
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- tommica 1y agoHow did you find out that you had a rootkit?
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- nicce 1y agoI am having 20 fps more in Linux with 4k screen when compared to 2k in Windows. Didn’t believe my old GPU could get better over time.
- drnick1 1y agoI find this hard to believe. Generally speaking, games run slightly slower on Linux (that's on Arch with latest Nvidia drivers). Usually, the difference isn't really noticeable, and several rigorous benchmark show that even though average FPS is single digits lower, the standard deviation is also smaller. This may be due to Nvidia not performing as well on Linux, the worst impact I have seen is on Helldivers 2 (at least 15 to 20% lower FPS).
- apple1417 1y agoIf you have an older game which still uses dx9, dxvk can give a decent little performance boost - even if you're running on Windows. It's kind of magical that adding a translation layer is able to improve performance. In more modern games using dx11/12, I've always noticed a small loss like you'd expect. I haven't properly benchmarked any but I suspect a game with native Vulkan support would do pretty similarly, and might come out on top due to CPU load.
- drnick1 1y ago> an older game which still uses dx9, dxvk can give a decent little performance boost Old games already run at insane frame rates on modern hardware, so while it's impressive from a technical standpoint, the performance boost is largely irrelevant. Even with a small loss, Proton is completely worth it -- no more Windows spyware, activation/registration nags, cloud/AI bloatware.
- snoman 1y agoMeanwhile nothing epic will work on mint (at least I can’t get them working), there are frequently broken components of games (eg. phasmophobia mic won’t work), most multiplayer stuff with anti-cheat won’t work. Whenever I see someone say “most modern games work flawlessly” I know they’re full of shit or just don’t do much gaming. Don't get me wrong, I’m not going back to windows, but it’s not the panacea that people pretend it is. Often enough it doesn’t “just work” and you have to hunt down some additional command line args to get games to run.
- 71bw 1y agoIt works fine under Arch and its derivatives. Everything aside from kernel anticheat games runs fine.
- p1necone 1y agoI've never tried Mint, the two distros I've definitely experienced the vast majority of steam games just working out of the box were Fedora (earlier) and OpenSUSE (currently). I'm not lying. Although it's probably also worth mentioning I have a fairly modern AMD GPU (6800xt) - ymmv on NVidia or older cards.