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I am buying a friend’s PC for games. I want to avoid windows if at all possible, and I’m wondering what people’s experience using Proton in Linux for gaming has been. Are there certain publishers who use libraries Proton doesn’t handle well? Are there distros to avoid using with proton? Any other notes I should be aware of?

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[–] teawrecks@sopuli.xyz 39 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I use steam + proton (on arch btw). I'd say 70% of the time, the game just works without issue. 25% of the time, you can get it working with a bit of tinkering, or it works fine but has annoying performance issues. And 5% of the time it just refuses to work.

Pain points usually involve anti-cheat and/or 3rd party launchers.

It's not perfect, but it's totally viable.

[–] EveryMuffinIsNowEncrypted@lemmy.blahaj.zone 20 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I use steam + proton on arch.

I don't believe you. You didn't say "btw" at the end.

[–] teawrecks@sopuli.xyz 11 points 1 year ago

Whoops my bad. Fixed 👍

[–] dylanmorgan@slrpnk.net 0 points 1 year ago

Cool, thank you! I was thinking about Arch so it’s good to know it generally works well for running games in proton.