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Pika@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

I’m parroting old talking points because those talking points still exist. They existed in 2022. They existed in 2012 when I started, and they still exist today August 2025.

I said I agree that wines gotten better, but I’m sick and tired of people thinking that it’s some sort of magical unicorn that can just resolve all the inner communication issues with Windows & Linux.

In the last 2 months alone I have had several games that have failed to launch completely. at least 10 games that have required me using a specific proton version. One game that required me to install a custom wine runner that’s specifically configured for the game to function, a handful of software incompatibilities, The most annoying of which being the software that is supposed to make my headset compatible with the computer, which required me due to the fact it’s not compatible with wine, to have to make my own audio profile to split the two mixes it has, and I’m currently working on a custom user interface for it to allow me to actually change the settings on the headset.

All of these examples are completely ignoring the reason that you provided of companies not wanting to support it. It’s just the support doesn’t exist in the current wine infrastructure. If we’re including the games that are using kernel level AC or disabling the usage on Linux, that list becomes bigger.

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theunknownmuncher@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

those talking points still exist. They existed in 2022. They existed in 2012 when I started, and they still exist today August 2025.

Nope!

at least 10 games that have required me using a specific proton version

So in other words, 10 games that worked on Linux…

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- Pika@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  10 games that /launched/ on linux. there is a difference. It was for sure not 10 games that ran the same as if in a windows enviroment. For example one of those games in that critera you can’t tab out of it or it hard crashes.
  
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  - theunknownmuncher@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    
    For example one of those games in that critera you can’t tab out of it or it hard crashes.
    
    LOL That’s literally a classic window bug. Try borderless-windowed. You’re welcome!
    
    Another one of those games was “The Isle” which has a raving disco ball sky during the night time.
    
    You should probably try this again, I can only assume that it has been a long time since you tried, because the protondb posting for the last 4+ months all say there are zero issues and it works perfectly. No clue why you’d need to use a specific version of proton because the posts include the latest version as well as a variety of others.
    
    Then theres phas… which while it functions the mic support is iffy cant work in lobby and night vision video is broken
    
    Lol I literally played this one on linux, and no, it works 100% without any issues or bugs.
    
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    Pika@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    
    LOL That’s literally a classic window bug. Try borderless-windowed. You’re welcome!
    
    this doesn’t work sadly, I tried it already. it’s not the act of tabbing out that causes it, it’s the fact the window loses focus which is still done with borderless
    
    Another one of those games was “The Isle” which has a raving disco ball sky during the night time.
    
    I tried it 2 weeks ago but i guess I’ll try giving it another shot
    
    Then theres phas… which while it functions the mic support is iffy cant work in lobby and night vision video is broken
    
    I don’t know what to tell you here. The proton db page for it is filled with others having the issue. Mic works in game, spirit box requires text mode, and no communication in lobby. I have tried GE 9-20, experimental, latest and bleeding edge, the issue remained. I have been waiting for another major update to hopefully address it.
    
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