Finally switched my gaming desktop over to Linux this weekend. The whole Windows 11 "upgrade" thing was getting too bizarre, and my experience with the Steam Deck showed that everything I want to play will work with Proton.
And that's the last instance of Windows I have - all my work moved to Mac or Linux years ago. None of my last several roles have been using Microsoft tech.
Experience so far has been great. Ubuntu install was perfect, Proton works perfectly, Steam is happy. I'm happy :)
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100% many volunteers and valve have made gaming on Linux completely viable, and that *out of the box* in almost all cases it just works, you don’t have to tinker around!
The only thing which doesn’t work is games which require root kits to run (competitive multiplayer games)
@tuxicoman it's a separate machine, basically. I only use this for gaming. I have a separate Purism laptop for messing around with tech :)
So yeah, I don't really care about the anti-chear bullshit. Though as I understand it, Proton sandboxes that so it shouldn't affect anything else. I might be wrong, Proton looks like magic.
@tuxicoman I am not going down that rabbit hole at this time on a Sunday evening, and I'm sure there are plenty of experts out there who knows the truth.
I was under the impression, from my extremely limited understanding of it, that Proton effectively runs each game in a sandbox, like its own VM. So yes, it sandboxes disk access.
I may well be wrong. Happy to be corrected. Refusing to research further this close to bedtime :)
I just found that.
https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/issues/7585
Game spyware is the next trojan vector for Linux ?
Feature Request I confirm: that I haven't found another request for this feature. that I have checked whether there are updates for my system available that contain this feature already. Descriptio...
@DJGummikuh yeah, I'm not into PvP at all, so usually don't play anything that would need that. Though Elden Ring works fine, and that has anti-cheat.
From a tech point of view, Proton is amazing.
@DJGummikuh there's also the argument that Proton allows game devs to effectively ignore Linux because they get it "for free" via Proton.
I think it's all about market share. If Proton gets people playing on Linux (including the Deck) to the point where the market share shifts, then we'll see game Devs, graphics card manufacturers, everyone, start caring about compatibility and pushing stuff upstream.
@DJGummikuh well if everything goes the way we'd like it to, we won't need Wine because it all runs natively on Linux. Right? I mean, that's the dream, isn't it?
But yeah, none of this would be possible in the first place without Wine.
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