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    [–] DosDude@retrolemmy.com 120 points 2 years ago (8 children)

    With proton, this is less and less the case.

    [–] AbsolutelyNotCats@lemdro.id 51 points 2 years ago

    Indeed, God bless proton

    [–] intelati@programming.dev 32 points 2 years ago

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

    The overhead of windows is so heavy

    [–] batmangrundies@lemmy.world 24 points 2 years ago (2 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.

    [–] ComradeKhoumrag@infosec.pub 4 points 2 years 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

    [–] bigdog_00@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years 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

    [–] o_d@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 2 years ago

    I've been working on a NixOS setup over the past few days and I just got BG3 to run a couple of hours ago. I had to switch from the Mesa driver to the AMD one, I can't login to the launcher (CORS issue lmao), and it sometimes doesn't launch at all. It's still a bit of a WIP, but it did seem to run at least as well as it did on Windows when it worked. I'm hoping that having an ephemeral, config-based setup will save me a lot of this trouble in the future.

    [–] zcode@infosec.pub 10 points 2 years ago

    Was amazed at how good this is.

    [–] heehaw@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

    what is proton? what does it do?

    [–] moody 22 points 2 years 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.

    [–] Poopmeister@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years 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.

    [–] Water1053@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years 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.

    [–] seitanic@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 2 years 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.

    [–] whitecapstromgard@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 years ago

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

    [–] Petter1@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago

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