Valve’s plan to bring SteamOS to more devices is a promising sign if you want to stop gaming on Windows

@penquin@lemm.ee · edit-2 4M

Valve’s plan to bring SteamOS to more devices is a promising sign if you want to stop gaming on Windows

Fonzie! · 4M

ran through proton

See, this is after where most gaming folks hop off.

In all fairness, if you just run Lutris (pre-installed on Bazzite), log into GOG from there and install and run the game through their wizard, it also “just works”.
That might be easier for most.

@vort3@lemmy.ml · 4M

Probably true, it depends. There are Steam folks and then there are GOG folks.

I prefer GOG tbh because it’s DRM free, but for some games I still need Steam, unfortunately.

Communist · 4M

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

Fonzie! · 4M

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 · 4M

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

Fonzie! · 4M

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 · edit-2 4M

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

Fonzie! · 4M

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

Communist · 4M

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

Fonzie! · 4M

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