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I've been meaning to get a Linux VM spun up for testing games. I gather that I'll have some issues (i.e. blockers) with multi-player games and cheat-prevention, but I'd just as soon play single player games anyway.
I've been a Linux/Unix admin for 25+ years so I've no excuse other than convenience. But I'm done.
I'm sure you know this already, but for anyone who doesn't: If you want to know if a specific game will work under Linux, Proton DB is your friend!
Thanks for posting this, I didn't realise how many of my most played games have issues, or are unplayable, according to Proton DB. I forgot that it was effectively impossible to play a huge number of multiplayer games with anticheat/whatever stuff.
Again though, appreciate it!
That's really unfortunate, but yeah, better to know beforehand.
The really painful part about this is it doesn't need to be this way. A lot of popular anti cheat software supports Linux, but the game devs just don't enable it. GTA is one example of these. It's allegedly just a checkbox that Rockstar won't check.
Out of curiosity, what games are you looking at?
R6 Siege, Apex Legends, PUBG, Insurgency Sandstorm (which seems to be an off/on thing from the descriptions.)
Honestly I migrated to bazzite about a month ago and my entire library has just… worked. It was shockingly easy. I haven’t changed anything from defaults at all.
I'd recommend the other way around; Windows in a VM for the vew games that don't work on Linux.
Kernel anti-cheats won’t (shouldn’t) work in a a VM
Now no one should have those but if someone was smart enough to know that then they would be on Linux already
Wait, really? I only knew VM-detection from malw... oh.