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it's wine with bubble wrap, dxvk, and a shit ton of game specific hacks
True, but that is what did the trick. No tinkering, just a flawless experience (in most cases). This changed everything. No longer I start a game in the evening, wondering if it will start or not (I worked all day, I don't want to google what I have to change to get the game to run again...). I double click and expect it to work (and it normally does).
There are things to learn from this...
I think the real gamechanger has been Vulkan and DXVK. Proton would have never taken off with OpenGL.
It would be nice though if Valve finally dropped 32 bit Steam client dependencies, and maybe made a wow64 Proton build. I'm really tired of enabling multilib just for Steam.
100%, I deleted Windows partition (despite paying for it, thanks OEM deals...) only after Proton was insuring I could play the games I wanted on Linux too, no reboot required.
I was there playing whatever worked since the steam client linux beta
7 years feels like it's too long, but then again 1999 was only 10 years ago too. lol
Double check that math. 😜 It feels like only a few years ago, and it being a quarter century seems impossible.
... and it being a quarter century seems impossible
how DARE you?!!! lol
I have a kid that was born in 99, every year i am reminded how's long ago it was.
game-changer
pun intended
proton is fantastic. I installed linux on my latop, just as a sort of introduction to it. But I've managed to run whatever games I want using Proton. For my next pc I'll use linux
For my next pc I’ll use linux
Check my post history but that's pretty much my #1 transition recommendation : do check that your future hardware is actually compatible. Most is... but you don't want to risk it when it's relatively easy to check!
PS: if you can, try to buy from manufacturers that do NOT sell a PC with a Windows installation. Ideally do buy something pre-built, try to give money to companies that even do ship with Linux installed. It's economically and morally nicer but also insure that your setup will 100% work.
When you have a new PC, put it on the old one too. You could run a Jellyfin server off it it or use it as a NAS device or something.