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Valve's plan to bring SteamOS to more devices is a promising sign if you want to stop gaming on Windows (www.pcguide.com)

submitted 4 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) by penquin@lemm.ee to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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Even gamers nexus' Steve today said that they're about to start doing Linux games performance testing soon. It's happening, y'all, the year of the Linux desktop is upon us. ᕕ(ᐛ)ᕗ

Edit: just wanted to clarify that Steve from GN didn't precisely say they're starting to test soon, he said they will start WHEN the steam OS releases and is adopted. Sorry about that.

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[–] communist@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

What you just said is so much more difficult than running games through proton isn't it??

[–] lord_ryvan@ttrpg.network 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

For me, yes. But this is all using hands-holding Windows-like UIs, please realise that the recent-ish influx of Linux gamers understand this much, much better than terminals.

Although, I'm not sure how to install Proton as a CLI package on Mint, for instance. apt doesn't list it, but Steam and Lutris do install it internally...

[–] communist@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz 0 points 2 days ago (1 children)

You just go to steam settings > compat > enable for all games and then it just works for all games on steam

[–] lord_ryvan@ttrpg.network 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I'm not sure if you're reading my messages but I'm saying I'm not sure how to do Proton outside of Lutris and Steam. And that CLI outside of a launcher sounds more convenient, but gave Lutris instructions for someone running a game not from Steam.

[–] communist@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

okay, that is different, sorry.

for that

step 1. install wine-tkg

step 2. right click a .exe > properties, set wine-tkg as the default

left click on .exe's to open

done

[–] lord_ryvan@ttrpg.network 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I know Wine, even better Wine-GE, but they're not Proton qua performance.

[–] communist@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

wine-tkg lets you use all the proton patches, which is why i suggested it, making it identical to proton essentially.

[–] lord_ryvan@ttrpg.network 1 points 1 day ago

Oh! I assumed wrongly! Lemmy look into that tomorrow!