[forest_dweller]

> As rjn said, it is also a way to lure players to Linux.

It has the opposite effect (on me at least).

> I've personally switched three weeks ago, and I'm not looking back: every game I want to play works, ranging from almost flawlessly to just perfect.

"Works for me" logic. Every game you want to play works. The games I wanna play don't, or they do so with resorting to tonnes of hacks. In the end I just say sod it and reboot in Windows.

[jvzr]

I don't understand your logic: you'd rather there be no games on Linux at all instead of some working well, some with hacks, and some not working?

There is a hypothetical reality where all game developers target Linux natively, but in our flawed reality where economics exist, Proton is a godsend

Edit: regarding the "works for me", I see your point but what else would I do? Stay on Windows because some games, not the ones I play, don't work on Linux? Of course I'm switching.

[forest_dweller]

> I don't understand your logic: you'd rather there be no games on Linux at all instead of some working well, some with hacks, and some not working?

Other than the false dichotomy. Yes. I would rather not have the game on Linux, than have to rely on proton.

> Edit: regarding the "works for me", I see your point but what else would I do? Stay on Windows because some games, not the ones I play, don't work on Linux? Of course I'm switching.

Dual boot. It takes seconds to boot to reboot into another OS, drives are dirt cheap. There is also GPU passthrough (which I am going to try with a Geforce 1030 or similar card).

[ric2b]

> Yes. I would rather not have the game on Linux, than have to rely on proton.

So just ignore it and don't play the game.

[forest_dweller]

The context in which we are speaking is whether proton is a suitable replacement. It cannot be ignored in this context.

The point is that people pretend everything works perfectly, when it doesn’t. On some games literally moving your mouse out of bounds can crash the game. In other situations there is performance problems that go much deeper than average framerate. None of this is mentioned and it gives users a false impression and is ultimately misleading (I've had gamers ask me if they can ditch Windows for Ubuntu and they had no experience with Linux before).