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[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago

Maybe it's just my "golden touch", but like 70% of the games I've tried to play have had some kind of issue. I recently got a steam deck and I regularly have crashes where the whole deck just does a full restart. Usually while I'm already gaming for a while. On the deck most games do generally start though, which is better than my own PC. On my PC I tend to have to hack around a bit before it works. For now I'm still gaming on Windows because of this instability, but I will have to switch at some point due to Micro$oft's ever growing greed

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

"why doesn't my recently released porn game work under proton" mfers when they realize they can't tell other people they're trying to play porn games on linux.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Seriously, just do it. Most folk don't give a fuck (I sure as hell don't). There's a game that isn't running on linux, and folk wanna help to get games runnin on linux. That's all there is to it, really. Are there going to be comments going "haha porn game" from immature folk? Ofc. But those can just be downvoted/ignored entirely, like... who cares? So really it's all up to whether ya want for folk to know that yer playin those or not, but like at the end of the day? Let's just be adults bout it, shall we?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

i get it, but the pain with those is that they're going to be the 1% most of the time. renpy natively supports linux, so most VNs aren't a problem. Most modern game engines support building for linux. It's mostly just the tiny devs doing weird niche shit not building it properly cross platform, or building it for cross platform.

You also run into the problem of dealing with things at an incredibly small scale, which just make it more annoying. Both for the user and the dev, and anybody working on proton.

It's the development cycle thing of getting 80% of the way there takes 20% of the effort, and getting it 99% of the way there is the rest of it.

Although to be fair, the amount of shit proton just works on is actually staggeringly impressive. I've only found a handful of things it implodes itself on.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago

I was talking more abt "Oh noo I can't ask folk for support when it comes to getting that game to run in Proton cause it's a porn game and they're gonna laugh at me!", not abt the fact that it isn't native. My point basically is: Why treat it any different in that regard from any other game that yer trying to run through proton? Yeah sure it's a porn game, but who like actually cares? Proton is supposed to make games run on linux, and a porn game is a game.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago

Chromebook: *whomp-whoump*

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Too bad this apparently only counts Steam games. Lately, I've been trying to use GOG (because no DRM) whenever possible.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Just use Lutris or Heroic for that.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago

I've had really good luck with Bottles so far! A lot more luck than I had with Lutris which I always had problems with.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago

The site is https://www.protondb.com/ if you want to check your own library.

Can you use that site to see which of your games fall into each category? I've got a few in the red bronze and silver, but it would be nice to see at a glance which of them it is.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago

More like 84%. Silver tier is probably way more unplayable than on Windows.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago (3 children)

72% platinum and gold, 86% plat, gold and silver. I'm honestly surprised that this isn't higher because almost everything I play just works (I do have a lot of random games in my account from humble bundles and such, so I don't even play a good amount of them).

Funny enough what I've been playing recently is Minecraft. Downloaded the Prism launcher, linked my account, installed the game and the BetterMC modpack which includes pretty heavy lighting shaders, get an easy 120fps with absolutely zero tinkering besides telling the game to use my systems OpenAL rather than the bundled one, as that was causing a crash. I do have a relatively beefy system so the performance isn't what I'm impressed by, moreso the fact that this was all up and running in 5 minutes.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Ok, Minecraft is in Java though, cross-platform per default.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago

Yes of course this is a huge factor, but modding games in general tends to be a sticking point. The fact that I immediately had a heavily modded game up and running via a third party launcher with only one minor issue, which was fixed via a single checkbox, was just a really nice experience.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago

A lot of reports on ProtonDB are ancient. I would say literally 99% of games work nowadays out of the box.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago (2 children)

5 MINUTES to install and play a game? Including a bug fix? By a knowledgeable person?

That probably translates into an hour for me, if my googling gets lucky, or complete frustration more likely.

Damnit, I was hoping I could move to Linux, I've used it before, even had it dual-booting with Windows a couple of times, but I never got comfortable with it.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

I just downloaded the .deb and installed it without having to change anything.

But don't get me started on my problems I had with that f...ing microsoft account to get onto our shared server. Somehow I am too dumb for that (same on the tablet).

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Oh my god don’t get me started, the last time I tried that, it took me over two fucking hours to get the Microsoft account to recognize that I owned Minecraft. Apparently I bought the game so long ago that it failed to unify my accounts correctly so the separate “enter your password” screen just failed to load? I had to reset my account and open an entire new outlook.com email address just to link my purchase to the account I already have.

Fuck those losers who succeeded only in making the game worse to encourage platform lock in so they can replace Java with Bedrock.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Make it comfortable?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I'm not trying to be antagonistic.

I guess when the pain of Windows becomes high enough that it's worth the need to understand more about your computer, it's parts, and it's functioning I'll have to transition. I don't like having to "make things work." I had difficulty getting Radar, Sonarr, Docker, and Overseerr to run in Windows. It's still not configured right.

What the hell chance will a guy like me have to not be frustrated working in a Linux environment? I'm willing to try hard things. But it doesn't come naturally.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

If you got those running in windows, given they're built for a Linux environment (I guess you either used docker or windows subsystem for Linux), then you're eminently ready to move to Linux.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Oops, yes that entirely true lol

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago

I'll be honest, I'm still screwing around trying to get a working *arr stack on my pi4b, but then I'm also looking for more stuff on there and having it deployed as a network device automatically with dimension hosting, DNS, DHCP and stuff like that with a glutun VPN securing it all... So yeah :⁠-⁠D

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago

Pretty good. Only two multiplayer games in the silver area that I might play once every 3-5 years. The rest I don't care about. But overall very good if one doesn't care about multiplayer games.

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