Steam Beta finally enables Proton on Linux fully, making Linux gaming simpler
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The title is a bit click-baity.
Steam had a setting where it would only run Proton on games on which it had been verified to work. Some people would inadvertently flip this setting off. Now the setting is gone, so they can't accidentally do this.
Do you mean the setting called "Enable Steam Play for all titles" that was usually unchecked, that you'd have to go in and check, which some folks wouldn't do (because they might not have known they were supposed to?)
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Do you mean the setting called "Enable Steam Play for all titles" that was usually unchecked, that you'd have to go in and check, which some folks wouldn't do (because they might not have known they were supposed to?)
Yeah i had heard Linux gaming was good but when installed steam i found only like 10% of my games were showing as playable for Linux. Next day i realized i needed to turn on the proton option or whatever
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The title is a bit click-baity.
Steam had a setting where it would only run Proton on games on which it had been verified to work. Some people would inadvertently flip this setting off. Now the setting is gone, so they can't accidentally do this.
That setting defaults to off. Changing the default to on means new users won't have to figure out it exists, and shows confidence in proton
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I didn't even know this setting existed lol. I always right clicked into the specific game's properties and selected the version of proton for that game.
And I did it for each game.
This is a welcome change haha. At least I know there was actually a setting for the rest of the library.
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Yeah i had heard Linux gaming was good but when installed steam i found only like 10% of my games were showing as playable for Linux. Next day i realized i needed to turn on the proton option or whatever
Mfw i have been going into individual steam properties to select a proton version for all my games for the last 2 years.
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Ah, Good Guy Valve helping us prepare for October eh?
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I didn't even know this setting existed lol. I always right clicked into the specific game's properties and selected the version of proton for that game.
And I did it for each game.
This is a welcome change haha. At least I know there was actually a setting for the rest of the library.
Yes it's very good they now changed this, because if you manually select a proton version you also override the default. Steam actually knows which proton to use for almost every game if the global setting is just on.
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Hot like FIRE!
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That setting defaults to off. Changing the default to on means new users won't have to figure out it exists, and shows confidence in proton
wrote on last edited by [email protected]Yeah honestly this was super dumb. I've seen so many people make the mistake of not turning this on (myself included). Even watched a dude make a whole video about Linux gaming with it disabled. It's so stupid to have it off by default.
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That setting defaults to off. Changing the default to on means new users won't have to figure out it exists, and shows confidence in proton
Yes, exactly. I wonder how many new, non-technical users tried Proton for the first time with the setting off and decided it was crap because nothing worked. I’m glad Valve decided to do this now.
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And now Valve needs to figure out how to tell users which game works and which game doesn't work. Maybe some kind of badge for Proton?
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And now Valve needs to figure out how to tell users which game works and which game doesn't work. Maybe some kind of badge for Proton?
https://github.com/OMGDuke/protondb-decky
You mean like this?
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https://github.com/OMGDuke/protondb-decky
You mean like this?
Like that, but default on Steam client and store game page.
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And now Valve needs to figure out how to tell users which game works and which game doesn't work. Maybe some kind of badge for Proton?
Steam deck compatibility is close enough to the same thing.
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Bro, I'm so fucking close to removing Microsoft from my life
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And now Valve needs to figure out how to tell users which game works and which game doesn't work. Maybe some kind of badge for Proton?
Integrating ProtonDB into the steam client would be a nice.
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https://github.com/OMGDuke/protondb-decky
You mean like this?
Unfortunately this doesn't work on the store pages.
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Steam deck compatibility is close enough to the same thing.
They've already expanded it into a non-deck-speciphic thing for the other compatible handhelds.
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Just in time for my new nvme drive so I can fully segregate windows and Linux after that mf broke my install again
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Bro, I'm so fucking close to removing Microsoft from my life
Best thing I ever did. I got tired of being told how I could use my computer and the spying or course.
