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Out of everything i play, the only game holding me back is Destiny 2, which was explicitly refused support for.
Everything else works phenomenally well, and in some rare cases, performs a lot better.
The only struggle point is heavily modded games with tools that assume i’m doing this on windows, but times are changing too
Destiny is garbage.
I don’t recall asking for your input
Welcome to a community post on the Internet! You don’t need to ask.
Yes. It’s so garbage I wrote a master’s thesis on how shit it is. If I didn’t have over 1,000 hours in the game, it would have been substantially harder to do this.
Ooohhh, master’s thesis!
I paid 20 grand to be poor
Like The Elder Scrolls? I’ve been paying Oblivion for a while with a ton of mods using a mod manager and I don’t know how to run this in Linux.
https://github.com/rockerbacon/modorganizer2-linux-installer Small caveat at the moment though is that Protontricks is borked and requires a more up to date version than what’s on most repos and flathub. I used the pipx install for Protontricks and that one worked though, but I think the beta branch on Flathub has an updated version now as well, which hopefully goes stable soon. Nexus is also working on a new cross platform compatible mod manager now, but that’s going to be far away.
For a lot of other games r2modman + Thunderstore are also working natively on Linux. Games like Stardew Valley have a native mod manager like Stardrop.
Been gaming on linux for the better part of last couple of decades, can agree its in a muhc better place now and its a rarety to find a title that doesn’t work through proton. There are some but not a massive amount.
Kinda ironic but out of the ones that don’t work for proton, sometimes they work via wine instead
Kinda ironic but out of the ones that don’t work for proton, sometimes they work via wine instead
Kinda weird rather, because Proton is basically wine + a lot of profiled tweaks for the titles. With wine you usually have to manually figure out tweaks or use third party installers, like through Lutris, which often also are somewhat wacky.
Exactly but since it worked, i am not complaining 😅
And some games want an older version of Proton (like River City Girls), so it’s not always intuitive what the fix might be, but there’s several options to improve compatibility, these days.
Now that ntsync has been added to the upstream kernel for the next release, it will only get better.
better part of last couple of decades
You mean like the lock down period
Damn near anything good works under proton. Cyberpunk 2077 is basically flawless out of the box. No issues with a lot of other newer games.
Ironically some of the older ones like Fallout 3 need a little bit of hackery to get the radio working
Does the RTX and DLSS work in Cyberpunk 2077 on Linux?
I was able to get it working perfectly fine. It was dicey around a year ago and required some run flags. Now it runs perfectly fine (for me at least)
As of a couple months ago, the ray tracing also works in Linux when on AMD.
At the same time the small amount of games that don’t support Linux also happen to be some of the biggest and most popular ones.
At the same time the small amount of games that don’t support Linux also happen to be some of the biggest and most popular ones.
Minecraft? CS2? Dota 2?
Good thing I don’t play mtx/fomo games.
Tbh neither do I, Debian runs all the games I personally want. My point is its not for everyone.
It’s more competitive ones. And yes, I know they come with that shit too but not all FOMO games are pvp games and Linux has plenty of working multiplayer games with that shit.
What competitive ones? Counterstrike and quake are on Linux just fine. R6 siege is cool, but the only reason you can’t run it on Linux is because the publisher is specifically blocking that.
Obviously not Valve titles. lol I don’t even know why you’re asking though, you know full well which games we’re talking about.
Nope. I don’t. You bring it up like there’s a competitive game that matters we’re missing out on. Is it the new Tribes?
Oh please save me the bad faith crap. Just look over at Epic. And next you say “they don’t matter”, to which I say “none of them matter”, since it is a purely subjective opinion to have.
LMAO!!!
There are far better wrong answers, and you raced straight to the bottom. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Yeah, I won’t be looking over at epic.
Joke’s on you, I play Dota.
🤮
Good même but you can very much run lol on Linux. It’s weird around the edges especially in the launcher but it’s definitely playable.
Didn’t they transition it to the same kernel-level antichest that Valorant uses? IIRC, that anticheat absolutely refuses to let you run it on Linux.
AFAIK there is a work around to run MacOS in a VM and run the Mac client which doesn’t have kernel anti cheat, but meh, why bother?
Yeah, but it is a PITA to setup a MacOS VM. Even if you get it working, it will probably be unsupported in a year or 2 because of Apple Silicon. All that effort just to play league lmao
Since when?
They switched the ac to use the vanguard kernel level ac so the workaround doesn’t work anymore.
Oh noes, my lootboxes!
I’m honestly at a loss as to why they are so popular. I barely remember the last time I enjoyed a AAA game. The only notable exceptions would probably be Baldur’s Gate 3 and Dishonored, which both work. Personally I haven’t run into any games that wouldn’t work and as much as I’d love to dismiss those (fucking atrocious) games, I get your point about it preventing popular adoption. Sadly it’s not something Linux can easily fix, as long as companies insist on using windows specific versions of anti cheat software (despite Linux versions of the same stuff existing) just so they can have kernel access to your machine.
Lots of people really enjoy competitive games. Competitive multi-player games attract the most cheaters, resulting in the strictest anti-cheat measures (which still barely work, honestly).
Frankly the only game I haven’t been able to play (besides a couple of old MMO private servers I couldn’t get running) has been Fortnite, and there’s frankly no reason it shouldn’t run on Linux already, Epic just sucks
It doesn’t run because Tim Sweeny is a salty jerk who had one negative interaction with a Linux user (the Linux user just posted a rice and he was pissed he couldn’t do that on Windows)
It wasn’t even a rice, just panel on the left side.
It doesn’t run because Tim Sweeny is a salty jerk who had one negative interaction with a Linux user (the Linux user just posted a rice and he was pissed he couldn’t do that on Windows)
Yeah, he’s a shithead. “We just don’t have enough developers” my ass
Linux users: please release your software on Linux
Tim Sweeny: we don’t have enough developers
The over 800 employees Tim Sweeny fired:
%1 Chromebook Ready😂😂
Which games are “borked”?
For my library of 390 games, only 2 are “Borked”.
One is Magic: Duels, which was discontinued by WOTC back in 2019. It’s still playable on Windows, but seeing as it was kind of a weird experiment they did that ultimately got replaced by Arena I can understand the lack of support there. Also it was free, and I got clean a few years ago, so I’m not salty.
The other of Flatout 3 (the car racing/destruction game, not to be confused with the similarly named Fallout 3). I remembered seeing ads and reviews for Flatout back in PSM when I was a kid. Never got to play it back then, but I grabbed the series bundle on sale at some point. Still haven’t played any of them yet, but it appears the issue with Flatout 3 in particular is… It’s a bad game. Just learned this now, but apparently it was made by a different developer than the first games and is, by review score, one of the worst games of all time. So there’s probably not a whole lot of demand for it on Linux.
Fun stuff. Always neat to find a new way to look at the library.
Destiny 2 and Tarkov is my guess.
Games where the devs actively reject Linux support.
Usually games that require some shitty anti-cheat.
For me it’s less positive, but still quite impressive!
The tier # system will lean towards negative results compared to Plat/Gold etc.
Lot of indies and linux compatibility is high in my priorities.
Does this mean 58% of my games would just work and rest need tinkering or are broken?
From my experience, only “borked” are without hope. (Almost?) All of the silver games work on my deck, I can’t remember the last one that didn’t work. I’ve had one verified game that doesn’t work at all, I believe square enix borked it with a patch (because they released the "hd"version and didn’t want to support the previous one, aka they deliberately broke the working version)
Maybe it’s just my “golden touch”, but like 70% of the games I’ve tried to play have had some kind of issue. I recently got a steam deck and I regularly have crashes where the whole deck just does a full restart. Usually while I’m already gaming for a while. On the deck most games do generally start though, which is better than my own PC. On my PC I tend to have to hack around a bit before it works. For now I’m still gaming on Windows because of this instability, but I will have to switch at some point due to Micro$oft’s ever growing greed
How do you generate this?
You just log in with your Steam Account to ProtonDB.
Thank you
Just link your account at Protondb and go to the dashboard. https://www.protondb.com/dashboard
“why doesn’t my recently released porn game work under proton” mfers when they realize they can’t tell other people they’re trying to play porn games on linux.
Seriously, just do it. Most folk don’t give a fuck (I sure as hell don’t). There’s a game that isn’t running on linux, and folk wanna help to get games runnin on linux. That’s all there is to it, really. Are there going to be comments going “haha porn game” from immature folk? Ofc. But those can just be downvoted/ignored entirely, like… who cares? So really it’s all up to whether ya want for folk to know that yer playin those or not, but like at the end of the day? Let’s just be adults bout it, shall we?
i get it, but the pain with those is that they’re going to be the 1% most of the time. renpy natively supports linux, so most VNs aren’t a problem. Most modern game engines support building for linux. It’s mostly just the tiny devs doing weird niche shit not building it properly cross platform, or building it for cross platform.
You also run into the problem of dealing with things at an incredibly small scale, which just make it more annoying. Both for the user and the dev, and anybody working on proton.
It’s the development cycle thing of getting 80% of the way there takes 20% of the effort, and getting it 99% of the way there is the rest of it.
Although to be fair, the amount of shit proton just works on is actually staggeringly impressive. I’ve only found a handful of things it implodes itself on.
I was talking more abt “Oh noo I can’t ask folk for support when it comes to getting that game to run in Proton cause it’s a porn game and they’re gonna laugh at me!”, not abt the fact that it isn’t native. My point basically is: Why treat it any different in that regard from any other game that yer trying to run through proton? Yeah sure it’s a porn game, but who like actually cares? Proton is supposed to make games run on linux, and a porn game is a game.
Chromebook: *whomp-whoump*
What I don’t get is why some games (even newer ones) don’t work in newer versions of proton but do work in older versions of proton.
I’m talking games working in proton 7.x or 8.<low number> that don’t work in say proton 9 or proton 8.<higher number>.
I rarely seem to have any luck with newer versions let alone proton experimental.
🤷♂️
Some newer tweaks might interfere with older games, but in my personal experience it’s very rare that a game does not work with the latest versions and I typically run experimental or the latest GE build.
Too bad this apparently only counts Steam games. Lately, I’ve been trying to use GOG (because no DRM) whenever possible.
Just use Lutris or Heroic for that.
I’ve had really good luck with Bottles so far! A lot more luck than I had with Lutris which I always had problems with.
The site is https://www.protondb.com/ if you want to check your own library.
Can you use that site to see which of your games fall into each category? I’ve got a few in the red bronze and silver, but it would be nice to see at a glance which of them it is.
More like 84%. Silver tier is probably way more unplayable than on Windows.
