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I heard it's starting to get better (lemdro.id)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 123 points 11 months ago (9 children)

With proton, this is less and less the case.

[–] [email protected] 48 points 11 months ago

Indeed, God bless proton

[–] [email protected] 32 points 11 months ago

Basically, I tried proton and I'll never go back.

The overhead of windows is so heavy

[–] [email protected] 24 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I just made the jump again and I don't think I'll be going back to Windows. I'm getting improved performance in many of my favourite titles.

Very happy to be free of windows finally.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

If rainbow 6 ever gets Linux support, I think I can fully uninstall windows. Unfortunately if I need to have windows installed for something, I might as well compartmentalize Linux for productivity, and windows for gaming

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago

This is understandable, I still have a Win10 install on a separate disk in case I want to run VR on my Oculus CV1. Otherwise it's all Linux babyyyy

[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago

Was amazed at how good this is.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (2 children)

what is proton? what does it do?

[–] [email protected] 21 points 11 months ago

Proton is a translation layer that uses Wine and other tricks to allow you to run Windows games on Linux. It's a Valve project that is making a ton of progress on compatibility. It's a huge part of the success of the Steam Deck.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 11 months ago

A compatibility layer that lets you run native windows games on Linux through Steam. It's gotten better and better over the years and supports a majority of popular games now.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

if only I could multibox.

turns out a compatibility layer takes up system resources. who knew.

edit: also fuck minimize on focus loss, I'm not even sorry for my Windows partition while that's a thing.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I've recently installed Linux. Have a hdd full with steam games (for windows) Is there any way to get that to work without needing to format the drive and install the games again? Looked a bit at it but every article seems to suggest formating the drive to get it to work with proton.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It's technically possible but not recommended as the NTFS format has some quirks under Linux. Give yourself the best chance at everything working and do full reinstalls after a format.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

"Has some quirks" is putting it mildly. I had a couple of drives that I thought were dead because I kept getting errors. I reformatted them to ext4 and they were fine.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

It’s just a even more evil cheating if still do it

[–] whitecapstromgard 1 points 10 months ago

I think the real gamechanger was Vulkan. OpenGL was just not suited for this.