Steam Beta finally enables Proton on Linux fully, making Linux gaming simpler
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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)
Why are people downvoting? You gave an edge case and an example of it in action... what is there to disagree with?
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Ah, Good Guy Valve helping us prepare for October eh?
I guess I'm out of the loop - what's in October?
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For some reason it seems to me like toxic games are less likely to run on Linux compared to the average
It comes down to how much the publishers care about their own product. Devs shoveling third party kernel anti-cheat into their product often cause those games to be Linux incompatible. Devs bundling their own unnecessary launcher with the game and requiring it to run the launcher in order to run the game sometimes cause those games to be Linux incompatible. It often isn't even the devs themselves making this decision, which is why I blame the publisher more than the developers in most cases.
But with how robust Proton has become these days there isn't a whole lot outside of those two cases that will make a game not run on Linux. It's pretty intentional at this point.
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I guess I'm out of the loop - what's in October?
Windows 10 is no longer getting updates. Forcing users to switch to 11 or run on an unsecured platform which could be vulnerable to future security flaws.
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Proton is only for running Win32 binaries
Nope, win64 works as well
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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.
Is there a way to confirm which games in your library will work well on Linux for your specific hardware, gaming is the only thing keeping me on Windows for now, I'd be happy to get rid of windows if I could run most of my games on Linux and the rest maybe I can run on Wine or a virtual desktop
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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.
"great on deck" is a lot more than Linux support. It also means the text is readable on a small screen and the game has 100% controller support.
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Is there a way to confirm which games in your library will work well on Linux for your specific hardware, gaming is the only thing keeping me on Windows for now, I'd be happy to get rid of windows if I could run most of my games on Linux and the rest maybe I can run on Wine or a virtual desktop
Not for specific hardware but you can sign in to ProtonDB with your steam account and get an overview of your entire steam library. For online games there is areweanticheatyet.com, you will have to check games manually.
AMD, Nvidia (9xx and newer) and Intel iGPUs (Skylake and newer) have roughly the same compatibility, performance differs usually favoring Windows on Nvidia. -
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Wait. It wasn't fully supported until now? I never had any real problems that couldn't be solved by trying a different Proton version.
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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.
I have seen the other way around, a friend had Steam installed on their Linux PC but Proton was off and she didn't know what it was.
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Windows 10 is no longer getting updates. Forcing users to switch to 11 or run on an unsecured platform which could be vulnerable to future security flaws.
Oh DUH. I'm over here wondering if I missed some Valve release announcement lmao. I switched to Linux a few months back and just completely forgot about that ig.
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Bro, I'm so fucking close to removing Microsoft from my life
Do it. You'll be asking yourself why you haven't done so a year ago!
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Gaming on Linux gets worse and worse every article he writes
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Bro, I'm so fucking close to removing Microsoft from my life
Currently backing up, moving to Zorin Core after work!
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Can you not install it? There's really not much difference between a Steam Deck and a Linux desktop.
You can, I've done it myself, but most plugins are geared to run in the Big Picture mode instead of the Desktop UI.
For example, the SteamGridDB plugin only runs in Big Picture, and despite showing its menu option the desktop, clicking it gives you a broken window.
Meanwhile, the CSS Loader plugin runs on both, and there some themes specifically geared to modify the desktop UI, like the lovely Metro for Steam skin recreation by Rose -
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As someone who will be switching to Mint very soon, I am so thrilled to hear this.
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Any solutions to replace something like Virtual Desktop to wirelessly VR a Quest 3, or any word on attempts to get Steam Link VR working on Linux? It's basically the final ligament holding onto the Windows dual-boot on my non-work PC. I've been waiting for the day I can purge Windows since using Warty in elementary school.
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Any solutions to replace something like Virtual Desktop to wirelessly VR a Quest 3, or any word on attempts to get Steam Link VR working on Linux? It's basically the final ligament holding onto the Windows dual-boot on my non-work PC. I've been waiting for the day I can purge Windows since using Warty in elementary school.
I have used alvr on my quest 1
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Wait. It wasn't fully supported until now? I never had any real problems that couldn't be solved by trying a different Proton version.
I’m surprised by this too. Proton has been mostly problem free
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If that’s really all there is to it at the moment, sounds great! The other obstacles are my nvidia graphics card, and HDR support…
wrote on last edited by [email protected]Kinda late to the conversation but always follow the documentation for your distro, if you choose Debian find Debians guide to installing drivers, if you choose Arch follow Arch’s documentation and so on, Nvidia themselves supply .run files for Linux drivers however some distro’s don’t work with these so just be careful.
I learned this the hard way when I used Nvidia’s .run files and wondered why games kept stuttering every couple seconds, learned this lesson pretty quick.
