Outside of Steam, you can use Proton as well. Via Lutris, for example.
The Internet Archive happens to have many game ISOs for some reason.
protontricks and gamemode can be useful too.
Nearly 90% of Windows Games Now Run on Linux
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Re: Nearly 90% of Windows Games Now Run on Linux
#182Earlier quoted context omitted.
That anecdote goes the other way if you skew towards popular multiplayer games, since those are the ones with anti-cheat. Someone who plays League, Apex, PUBG, and Destiny 2, and was really looking forward to BF6, will be mightily disappointed. You're unlikely to be invested in all of those games, but a pretty large amount of people are very, very invested in at-least one of those, which, unfortunately, makes Linux a…
The death of a server browser and privately owned servers led to this. The whole anti-cheat situation grew from publishers wanting to control the whole experience. Besides, the gaming industry keeps shooting themselves in the foot by only supporting Windows (Mac is a thing too). That is slowly changing, but so many game devs are drinking the Microsoft koolaid they don't even consider using another graphics API other…
> Besides, the gaming industry keeps shooting themselves in the foot by only supporting Windows (Mac is a thing too). That is slowly changing, but so many game devs are drinking the Microsoft koolaid they don't even consider using another graphics API other than DirectX. Many other decisions like that as well.
If you think game devs are drinking koolaid, do note that there's always loud minority of linux advocates on forums like these, saying 'it works' and when expanding further it turns out they had to do a ton of tweaking and setup. Just look at the comments on getting Overwatch2 to work on linux for an example.
Fact of the matter is most of the game dev's audience is on windows, and for a time it had good tools/documentation for graphics debugging as well. That momentum carried over. It made practical sense to have main development be on windows.
Re: Nearly 90% of Windows Games Now Run on Linux
#183I have been thinking on dropping Windows, that I use only for gaming, but the issue is that I got a Nvidia graphics card and didn't have time to check if the support for it in Linux got better
But after experiencing the new Windows 11 "always-online" model it might make me stick to AMD in the future
Re: Nearly 90% of Windows Games Now Run on Linux
#184It's a bit painful hearing all of the success stories on this page. I ran into endless bugs running games under Wine, eventually gave up and bought a vanilla PC just to run Windows for games, and that still gives me endless bugs with most major games, but somewhat less than Linux does. With my level of hardware fu I should stick to consoles, but mods make games accessible to me.
Keep posting. Comments like yours bring balance to the linux ideologue that everything's all fine and dandy. We need some truth in this.
The last thing we should want is to have an innocent, how-to-pay-rent-on-his-mind, game dev develop for linux thinking it's good only to find out there's a ton more bugs to solve (and having no help for solving them) for 0.01% of his customer base.
Re: Nearly 90% of Windows Games Now Run on Linux
#185I wish we could have Proton on MacOS...that would be awesome!
Re: Nearly 90% of Windows Games Now Run on Linux
#186Now look at what percentage of time users spend playing windows game is spent in a game that works on Linux. This raw game count metric is sqeued because everything someone releases a Unity game it will most likely work out of the box. Due to there not being that many game engines actively being used in modern times the scope is not huge. Bigger issues like Linux not having good enough security means that anticheats…
LoL didn't have kernel-level anticheat for the majority of it's lifetime; when it was added to the game, Apple had removed kexts from the OS entirely. And Valorant doesn't support macOS in the first place, presumably because it didn't run Riot's Ring 0 anticheat at-launch. What point are you trying to make here?
>What point are you trying to make here?
1. That the raw percentage does not important.
2. That Linux distros do not care about investing in security, (nor to game studios themselves) to be able to get major titles like LoL.
Re: Nearly 90% of Windows Games Now Run on Linux
#187I have been thinking on dropping Windows, that I use only for gaming, but the issue is that I got a Nvidia graphics card and didn't have time to check if the support for it in Linux got better But after experiencing the new Windows 11 "always-online" model it might make me stick to AMD in the future
While I would like to champion AMD a bit more because Nvidia has been doing some anti consumer shenanigans, I have to say that at this point, the Linux support is good. It is a bit of a myth or perhaps just outdated info that if you want to have a headache-less experience, you need to use AMD. For new hardware, it may even be a bit better than AMD to be honest.
The only difference is that updating is a bit easier on AMD, after all, mesa just updates with your OS. But this is merely a note on convenience.
Re: Nearly 90% of Windows Games Now Run on Linux
#188I am an avid linux user but never switched my gaming PC to linux, until the Win10 > Win11 debacle which has made me switch. I am using EndeavorOS, my first Arch flavoured distro, it's excellent. Honestly it has all "just worked". Drivers were auto installed, I pointed Steam to my existing library on an NTFS drive originally used by windows, and it just plays my existing library fine. Cyberpunk2077, Red Dead 2, Starfi…
Nice! I'm curious if you experience any difference in IO performance (e.g game loading times)? Last I tried NTFS on Linux it was stable but not fast, especially for writes. If it's not a notable difference between Windows and Linux then that's a big improvement from those days. I think you could probably get a decent IO performance boost and reduce loading times by moving the library over to something like ext4 or xf…
I will have to take note next time I play, but I haven't noticed anything so perhaps if it's there it's not too bad. They are SSDs and I do have 32gb of ram and 24gb of vram, so I bet quite a lot of IO bottleneck could be hidden by that.
I'll probably switch to ext4 when I decommission the Windows install entirely.
Re: Nearly 90% of Windows Games Now Run on Linux
#189I am an avid linux user but never switched my gaming PC to linux, until the Win10 > Win11 debacle which has made me switch. I am using EndeavorOS, my first Arch flavoured distro, it's excellent. Honestly it has all "just worked". Drivers were auto installed, I pointed Steam to my existing library on an NTFS drive originally used by windows, and it just plays my existing library fine. Cyberpunk2077, Red Dead 2, Starfi…
>The only thing I have had to troubleshoot is getting a Quest3 VR headset to work Very interested in this: what kind of setup do you use for VR? What troubleshooting was required? (My background: I have a 10gbit fiber network and wifi 6E to stream to my Quest 3, and play VR that way. Running Arch on a gaming laptop as a way to dip my toes in the water, haven't really tried anything to do with VR (my favourite way to…
I must admit I haven't finished getting it to work, but others have got it to work and it seems like a pretty well troden path. I think the biggest issue I have is that I use a link cable, not wifi, and even on Windows that has been an issue.
The reason I stopped trying though is because SteamVR/Steam Link has been getting updates targeted at linux and well, I may as well wait for that for a more matured and hassle free VR PC link.
Re: Nearly 90% of Windows Games Now Run on Linux
#190I am an avid linux user but never switched my gaming PC to linux, until the Win10 > Win11 debacle which has made me switch. I am using EndeavorOS, my first Arch flavoured distro, it's excellent. Honestly it has all "just worked". Drivers were auto installed, I pointed Steam to my existing library on an NTFS drive originally used by windows, and it just plays my existing library fine. Cyberpunk2077, Red Dead 2, Starfi…
Almost the same happy story here on my end. I had an Ubuntu home server, but with windows as my main. Then Win 10 --> Win 11 hit. I was already annoyed at MS for many reasons, and then I realized just how much money I would need to spend on getting equivalent functionality, for an OS (Win 11) that I hated and had a dismal preview of at work. Now I have Mint. With an AI terminal to help guide/teach me, I find myself r…
That's awesome! I did look at Mint as well, it looks like a great distro.
I was surprised by some of the extras I got from KDE Plasma just for no extra effort, like KDE Connect is amazing and something super painful on Windows and Mac.