7 years later, Valve's Proton has been an incredible game-changer for Linux
7 years later, Valve's Proton has been an incredible game-changer for Linux
It would be nice though if Valve finally dropped 32 bit Steam client dependencies, and maybe made a wow64 Proton build. I'm really tired of enabling multilib just for Steam.
Would 64-bit Proton be able to support old 32-bit games?
Yeah, that's what wow64 does.
while eac itself doesn't depend on 32bit it doesn't currently support wow64 wine
proton is fantastic. I installed linux on my latop, just as a sort of introduction to it. But I've managed to run whatever games I want using Proton. For my next pc I'll use linux
For my next pc I’ll use linux
Check my post history but that's pretty much my #1 transition recommendation : do check that your future hardware is actually compatible. Most is... but you don't want to risk it when it's relatively easy to check!
PS: if you can, try to buy from manufacturers that do NOT sell a PC with a Windows installation. Ideally do buy something pre-built, try to give money to companies that even do ship with Linux installed. It's economically and morally nicer but also insure that your setup will 100% work.
When you have a new PC, put it on the old one too. You could run a Jellyfin server off it it or use it as a NAS device or something.
It was the last big hurdle to completely ditching Windows. If they get enterprise management solved, it's all over with.
7 years later i'm still sometimes awestruck i'm playing games on linux flawlessly.
game-changer
pun intended
I've been here the whole time!
it's wine with bubble wrap, dxvk, and a shit ton of game specific hacks
And computers are just a bunch of carefully arranged grains of sand.
True, but that is what did the trick. No tinkering, just a flawless experience (in most cases). This changed everything. No longer I start a game in the evening, wondering if it will start or not (I worked all day, I don't want to google what I have to change to get the game to run again...). I double click and expect it to work (and it normally does).
There are things to learn from this...
100%, I deleted Windows partition (despite paying for it, thanks OEM deals...) only after Proton was insuring I could play the games I wanted on Linux too, no reboot required.
Was there a precursor to proton integrated with steam? I would've sworn my friends were bringing this up in like 2016 or 2017 and describing it as a special version of wine for games that valve made
I was there playing whatever worked since the steam client linux beta
I think the real gamechanger has been Vulkan and DXVK. Proton would have never taken off with OpenGL.
all because some weeb wanted to play nier automata