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Even gamers nexus' Steve today said that they're about to start doing Linux games performance testing soon. It's happening, y'all, the year of the Linux desktop is upon us. ᕕ(ᐛ)ᕗ

Edit: just wanted to clarify that Steve from GN didn't precisely say they're starting to test soon, he said they will start WHEN the steam OS releases and is adopted. Sorry about that.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago (2 children)

ran through proton

See, this is after where most gaming folks hop off.

In all fairness, if you just run Lutris (pre-installed on Bazzite), log into GOG from there and install and run the game through their wizard, it also “just works”.
That might be easier for most.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

What you just said is so much more difficult than running games through proton isn't it??

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

For me, yes. But this is all using hands-holding Windows-like UIs, please realise that the recent-ish influx of Linux gamers understand this much, much better than terminals.

Although, I'm not sure how to install Proton as a CLI package on Mint, for instance. apt doesn't list it, but Steam and Lutris do install it internally...

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 days ago (1 children)

You just go to steam settings > compat > enable for all games and then it just works for all games on steam

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I'm not sure if you're reading my messages but I'm saying I'm not sure how to do Proton outside of Lutris and Steam. And that CLI outside of a launcher sounds more convenient, but gave Lutris instructions for someone running a game not from Steam.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

okay, that is different, sorry.

for that

step 1. install wine-tkg

step 2. right click a .exe > properties, set wine-tkg as the default

left click on .exe's to open

done

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I know Wine, even better Wine-GE, but they're not Proton qua performance.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

wine-tkg lets you use all the proton patches, which is why i suggested it, making it identical to proton essentially.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Oh! I assumed wrongly! Lemmy look into that tomorrow!

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 days ago

Probably true, it depends. There are Steam folks and then there are GOG folks.

I prefer GOG tbh because it's DRM free, but for some games I still need Steam, unfortunately.