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Comment by canpan

8 hours ago

Steam developing proton was what made it possible for me to change fully. No dual boot or anything needed. It's great.

Funnily I also run GoG games through steam proton.. But looking forward to the GoG client working!

Steam with Proton is simply incredible.

And now it doesn't even split games in "Linux" vs "Windows"; it simply assumes all games run on Linux. And they mostly do! Though to be fair I had to tweak a couple to make them run, and Space Marine II absolutely refuses to play past the cutscene, but most other games "just work".

  • God I hope Valve gets serious with Steam OS and it becomes a competitive target for PC games. They're making amazing progress with the Steam Deck, and I'm so ready to be free from Windows.

    • Is there something wrong with the many distros that make Steam a really easy install, or in the box? I mean Bazzite literally has a FS Steam option in the box for installers that's pretty close to the Steam OS experience with broader hardware support.

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    • Considering the Steam Machine will come with SteamOS, it looks like they are going all in.

  • I was amazed that the PC port of Spider-man Myles Morales worked perfectly with no tweaking at all. That’s the newest AAA game I own (I think), and it runs silky smooth and hasn’t had any issues.

    It wasn’t that long ago that Wine was only really useful for games that were at least 5-10 years old. Proton is amazing.

WINE crawled so that Proton could run.

Like even in 2014 WINE worked well enough for most games for me. Proton just made it utterly effortless, and lets me run AAA games like RDR2 and CP2077.

  • I would say that WINE did 90% of what had to be done, then Proton came and did another 90% so now we are 99% there.