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I remember when Proton launched it was like magic playing games like Doom and Nier Automata straight from the Linux Steam client with excellent performance. I do not miss the days of having the Windows version of Steam installed separately.
Serious question: how do nvidia drivers perform on Linux? I've heard they're not very good and missing features. Anything I should know about? I have an RTX 3060ti that I use for both games and stuff like blender, substance designer/painter, etc.
I also remember that “magical” moment — Proton really took away the pain of dual-booting and separate Steam for Windows. Doom/Nier run like a charm, and now it's increasingly a case of “install and play.”
A couple of life hacks, if they come in handy:
In the game properties, try Proton Experimental or Proton-GE — it often fixes finicky titles.
Check ProtonDB before installing, there are working launch parameters there.
For comfort: shader pre-caching, FSR/Gamescope, MangoHUD (fps/frametime).
If you run into anti-cheat issues, check if the game has support enabled; many already have it built in.
I also tried https://www.jenny-mods.net/ and was pleasantly surprised.
Linux gaming is now truly “plug and play,” and it's awesome.
Cool could this be an engine that would allow someone using DamnSmallLinux to get better frame rates?
Iam using a Laptop with a thunderbolt connected gtx1070. Does someone have experience or tips using linux and gaming with a setup like that. That and (solidworks) are the last reasons i didn't switch already.
It's an important milestone as it's the only effective way to make PC gaming available on operating systems other than Windows (i.e., reduce one of the Windows monopolies). Still, Linux gamers shouldn't take it too far. I'd advise everyone to still not support game studios which are openly hostile towards Linux gamers. This especially includes the ones who rely on client-side anticheat tools and then use those to block Linux gamers even though the game would run perfectly fine on Linux as well. Please do not support such games or studios (e.g.: Epic Games, EA, Bungie, Riot). Thanks to Proton, there is still a massive number of Windows games that can be played instead.
It hurts my soul to see windows simps say the only reason they won't transition to linux is because 'GaMes!' Like every game i've played with proton on linux mint has run perfectly smooth for years now, even before the deckening. If you're willing to be cucked by microsoft because one or two games you play is a competative shooty that uses a garbage anticheat (cough rainbow6siege cough) even though every other game in your library works just fine, you deserve what you get.
Games, music, photography are all still legitimate use cases.
I pretty much exclusively play anticheat games and have 0 interest in single player games. I’d quit gaming overall because I’m simply not interested in playing the type of games that end up working on Linux.
Im kind of that guy. I use Windows solely to run Arma 3 and have it up to date.