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by mackal 1661 days ago
> Gaming on the other hand, is very much still mostly Windows only.

I game a lot, I haven't rebooted into Windows in well over a year. Luckily I don't really play games that require stupid DRM/anticheat (although, that is being worked on)

I would probably start playing Apex Legends again if they allowed EAC Linux support. Epic added support, the devs just need to support it -.-
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godshatter 1661 days ago
Steam with proton, proton glorious eggroll, vulkan, lutris, and recent changes to wine have been a godsend for gaming on linux. It's night and day now. Aside from some really old games and newer competitive games (which I don't play regardless of OS), there are very few games that I can't play well in my 200+ steam games library. I often play native games in Windows emulation mode because a lot of linux ports are terrible but proton makes them play much better even though it's running the Windows binaries.
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jonny_eh 1661 days ago
> proton glorious eggroll

what?

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godshatter 1661 days ago
It's a version of proton with some of the enhancements that the main proton team either won't or haven't added yet. I haven't looked into whether it's an individual dev doing this on their own or if they are affiliated with the proton team. I run the GE versions of proton because they solve some problems I have in certain games without breaking anything. It's my understanding that the proton devs are from the same team as the wine devs and that they have strict rules about introducing new code that doesn't meet certain standards for wine (i.e. affecting more than just games). The GE builds include some of this code that hasn't been integrated yet "in the right way".

This is all just my understanding from reading various discussions, so may be incorrect in whole or in part.

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1_player 1661 days ago
https://github.com/GloriousEggroll/proton-ge-custom

An experimental patchset for Wine/Proton. Might help with some newer titles, and Steam gives you the choice per-game to target a specific Proton version.

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FinalBriefing 1661 days ago
I've had a great experience with Lutris for Linux.

https://lutris.net/

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