Steam Beta finally enables Proton on Linux fully, making Linux gaming simpler
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Integrating ProtonDB into the steam client would be a nice.
I tend to do my Steam shopping in the browser and I use the ProtonDB-Peek userscript. This gives a ProtonDB status badge in the right column under the review links.
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From a gaming perspective: Get a new drive (NVMe/whatever your OS is on), drop Nobara on it, be done, have the option to switch back without a hassle if you need it for some special tasks or games.
And after 6 months find out that you never actually did that so delete windows/migrate it into a VM and enjoy the extra game drive you won.
That's at least what worked for 90% of my friends meanwhile.
The only person I know who routinely uses windows is myself- and I only do so,because I need certain MS Office stuff that I need for work. (And no,libre or Softmaker,etc. are sadly not a replacement for that. )
After my experience with nobara blowing up after a major update I'd probably go for bazzite instead
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Integrating ProtonDB into the steam client would be a nice.
On steam deck there's a decky add-on to do that
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Proton is only for running Win32 binaries
I know, I was asking about which version will Steam decide for when I have the global setting on.
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Probably so, there are a few native Linux builds on Steam that don't have feature parity or segregate multiplayer for silly reasons. (Total War: Warhammer III for example uses an entirely different method to generate random numbers in the native Linux build so you need to use proton to play with 'friends' on Windows)
It doesn't, as far as I could tell. I enabled the global option, and now I can just install and run windows only games without having to manually force the compatibility layer. Meanwhile, the Linux native games work just as intended.
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No. To use the Windows build you need to specifically request it in the game's properties
Yup, just tested it with rimworld. Thanks!
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On steam deck there's a decky add-on to do that
We need decky for desktop steam.
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Bro, I'm so fucking close to removing Microsoft from my life
I'm a few months into Linux Mint on my gaming PC and love it; 99% of my games work. The only one that doesn't so far is FiveM but that's because the devs appear to be very anti-linux unless you're hosting a server.
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After my experience with nobara blowing up after a major update I'd probably go for bazzite instead
Bazzite is amazing, best distro I've used. It works perfectly as a gaming focused distro. I've been rocking it for a year now without issue.
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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.
It was the other way around. The default was to run proton-enabled games, but not random titles, unless you enabled proton for everything via the toggle ("enable for all titles") which was off by default.
Now it's on by default and the switch is gone, so it's can't inadvertently be switched off.
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I tend to do my Steam shopping in the browser and I use the ProtonDB-Peek userscript. This gives a ProtonDB status badge in the right column under the review links.
Apparently, this is a browser extension (well, a script for a browser extension), so it works when you browse the Steam catalog through your web browser, but not through their client. Or did I miss anything?
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Outside of a handful of multiplayer games pretty much any game will work under proton, new or old. Stalker 2 worked out the box on release day, early awkward 3D games like Gothic runs just fine, and your early point and click games will likely run just fine. Out of my 460 games*, only EA WRC doesn't work because they introduced kernel level anti cheat after release.
*Edit: Just to clarify i haven't tested all my games, but I have played a good number of them. Also another game that doesn't run is Ground Control 2, but that doesn't work on Windows since about 7 or 10, so it doesn't count! ^^
This isn't really true. At least on the steam deck. Of the 156 games I have in my library, 52 of the are "great on deck". Id say twenty of the other ones work great anyways.
I don't play multiplayer games, but the one I do have are in the works great category. The vast majority are single player games. (Just checked, i have 15 games that not compatible at all)
Definitely double check your games before making the switch.
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This isn't really true. At least on the steam deck. Of the 156 games I have in my library, 52 of the are "great on deck". Id say twenty of the other ones work great anyways.
I don't play multiplayer games, but the one I do have are in the works great category. The vast majority are single player games. (Just checked, i have 15 games that not compatible at all)
Definitely double check your games before making the switch.
A lot of the "unsupported" or "unknown" games also work fine. Some may require switching to a specific Proton version (check protondb.com), but many work fine.
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i mostly quit videogames in order to do this. it's nice to think that maybe I'll get some more of them back
I was ready to do that back when I switched, but still found games to play. Back then, Steam hadn't yet come to Linux (I didn't even have an account), so it was mostly random indies (back when Humble Bundle was baller) and some FOSS games. I played a bunch of Minecraft and Factorio as well. Then Steam came and brought a few more games, then Proton came and I've been back buying a ton of games.
Switching to Linux is so much easier these days with the incredible game support.
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We need decky for desktop steam.
Can you not install it? There's really not much difference between a Steam Deck and a Linux desktop.
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Apparently, this is a browser extension (well, a script for a browser extension), so it works when you browse the Steam catalog through your web browser, but not through their client. Or did I miss anything?
That's exactly what they said:
I tend to do my Steam shopping in the browser
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Apparently, this is a browser extension (well, a script for a browser extension), so it works when you browse the Steam catalog through your web browser, but not through their client. Or did I miss anything?
wrote on last edited by [email protected]Correct, that's what I meant to imply in the first part of my comment. When I research new games I do that from a web browser and that's when I care about Proton status the most so this works great for that. It does not help when using the Steam client.
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That's exactly what they said:
I tend to do my Steam shopping in the browser
Right, so they did. Silly me. Thanks.
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Correct, that's what I meant to imply in the first part of my comment. When I research new games I do that from a web browser and that's when I care about Proton status the most so this works great for that. It does not help when using the Steam client.
Thanks. You even did specify you used it from a browser, I wasn't paying attention, sorry.
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Can you not install it? There's really not much difference between a Steam Deck and a Linux desktop.
In practice, there aren't really any differences. However I suspect that it's designed around the Deck interface and that there would be no easy way to invoke it.
Although it's probably open source, or you might be able to bind whatever the Deck button sends to some key combination... I guess I'll have to look into it.
