Comment by noirbot

3 years ago

As someone who's been gaming on Proton or Lutris + Raw Wine, I'm not sure I agree. I regularly update Proton or Wine without seeing major issues or regressions. It certainly happens sometimes, but I'm not sure it's any worse of a "version binding" problem than a lot of stuff in Linux is. Sure, sometimes you have to specifically use an older version, but getting "native" linux games to work on different GPU architectures or distros is a mess as well, and often involves pinning drivers or dependencies. I've had games not run on my Fedora laptop that run fine on my Ubuntu desktop, but for the most part, Wine or Proton installed things work the same across Linux installs, and often with better performance somehow.

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LtWorf  3 years ago

I specifically mentioned the sims3. That one is constantly broken by updates.

Also age of empires2 hd, after working fine with wine/proton for a decade, doesn't work with the latest proton for me.

  • noirbot  3 years ago

    Sure, I'm not contesting that Wine breaks things with updates. So does a lot of stuff on Linux. The amount of times I run an apt update and some config file is now obsolete or just gone is a lot more often than I'd like.

    The advantage is that the Wine Ecosystem seems to realize this more than the Linux ecosystem at large, and specifically makes it easy to pin versions and never update. If it worked, why update? Or why not roll back? I'm already used to having to do that with every other part of linux gaming including my graphics drivers...

  • hot_gril  3 years ago

    And Aoe2 HD broke with every game update in Wine. I had to keep patching in different DLLs. Gave up one day. It's worse than the original game anyway.