Proton Linux Gaming
This cluster discusses Steam's Proton compatibility layer for running Windows games on Linux, highlighting its effectiveness, user experiences, and resources like ProtonDB for checking game compatibility.
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"almost"Looked at two games I play, AC Valhalla and Hitman 3, they don't work.Proton "works" but does not replace Windows and never will.
Windows for games is dying out -- Proton on Linux works great
Well, proton and wine have made significant advancements. You should check out your Steam library on protondb, that'll show what can run on Linux and what can't.
Proton on linux works quite well for a large selection of games.
Steam's Proton lets most of the popular win games run on linux. I've been playing New Vegas lately.
Steam uses Proton + Wine under the hood and yeah it works pretty great these days!
Does it work with wine/proton? anecdotal but even in apps/games where they make a linux port the wine/proton version sometimes works better.
I play all my steam games on Linux/proton, zero issues for years now.
Wine has gotten very good at recent games... or more specifically, Proton has. (Proton is a Steam-maintained fork of Wine, and is built in to the Steam client.)Official Proton "support" is limited, because it requires certification by Valve and/or the game developers that the game runs well (the equivalent of a "native" rating on winedb/protondb), but if you're willing to go down to "gold" levels of support it still runs 70-80% of all Steam
I believe GP is talking about Proton.It's a Linux/Windows compatibility layer from Steam. It's pretty great!A lot of the incompatability between Linux/Windows in my experience has actually been from the Anti-Cheat systems. Apex Legends and Intruder being examples that come to mind.https://www.protondb.com/