With Proton and Steam Play, many Windows games now work on Linux

Post by heelix » Tue, Dec 08, 2020, 2:39 PM UTC

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Gaming on steam works on Centos/RHEL as well as Ubuntu too. While most folks would not think of Centos as a desktop OS, we end up using it for our dev workstations as it matches up nicely with production servers. Christmas time last year, ended up having a bunch of vacation time to burn through and set out on a quest to get a game running on my work rig. The planets aligned with Centos 8, Steam, and AMD drivers somew…

Thanks for this! I was wondering if it would work on CentOS. I had Ubuntu on my personal computer because I had Ubuntu in my mind as the easy one for personal use, but I was working with Cent on another desktop and was actually surprised how much I liked the desktop experience on Cent.

Post by driverdan » Tue, Dec 08, 2020, 2:58 PM UTC

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Agreed, however after months of being "Linux only" (Manjaro KDE + Proton), just this weekend I broke and installed a Windows as a dual-boot option. 90% of games with Proton "just work" like you said. It is amazing. But then there's that one game that doesn't work, or works but with half the fps... for me, it was Death Stranding. It runs at 60+ fps at 1440p on Windows, but runs at half that on Proton, with horrible ar…

> If CyberPunk is any good, I'm going to buy it and want the best experience... from past experience with CDPR games, you should really wait a good year for all the patches to happen. TW3 was only really playable, like, two years after release

Post by disgruntledphd2 » Tue, Dec 08, 2020, 3:20 PM UTC

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Normally electron apps bother me on linux because they don't use my carefully selected GTK/QT/Openbox theming like most native apps do (whereas on windows I don't care because I don't have the ability to make anything look how I want). But I expect games to be fullscreen and have their own bespoke UI look and feel anyway, so it's not really an issue with them.

It's spelled Qt, not QT. QT means QuickTime.

Post by e2le » Tue, Dec 08, 2020, 3:24 PM UTC

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I think their policies have more to do with support costs than anything else. As much as I love playing on Linux and wine, you have to admit there are more technical issues with Linux. People who have low tolerance for glitches and problem solving to get their games working would be up in arms. The last example is Hyper Light Drifter. No matter which forum, the latest threads include several about Linux specific prob…

Seems to me like there should be something like a "Docker for games" which uses container tech to create a lightweight, predictable execution environment for video games. I suppose that's kind of what Proton does, although it focuses on emulating a Windows environment in particular.

Post by CivBase » Tue, Dec 08, 2020, 3:40 PM UTC

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Seems to me like there should be something like a "Docker for games" which uses container tech to create a lightweight, predictable execution environment for video games. I suppose that's kind of what Proton does, although it focuses on emulating a Windows environment in particular.

Sounds like something that AppImage is perfectly suited for, given that each application is a one-click executable with automatic updating built-in and can optionally provide a predictable execution environment although it's not a container. In one particular case, I packaged up Mirrors Edge into an AppImage with the AppRun script taking care to setup the environment and WINE. It worked surprisingly well.