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tio_bira@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• hornywarthogfart@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Switched to Linux a couple years ago and at this point it is rare that a game doesn’t “just work” and even rarer when it still won’t work after trying other versions of proton in the Steam compatibility settings for the game.

  Depending on if there is a specific game you know doesn’t work that is a deal breaker for you, it might be fine at this point to switch. Just throwing that out there. You may not need more compatibility than what is available.

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  • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Yeah I think a lot of people don’t understand how far it’s come. Often even games that Steam lists as “unsupported” will work with some very light tinkering.

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    • spicehoarder@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Using wine and Proton, I’ve been able to play old windows games that haven’t worked on real windows for over two decades.

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  • tio_bira@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    How moddings tool like MO2 and the mods from nexus are behaving on Linux ?

    Also, PCVR, playing HALF LIFE ALYX, Arizona Sunshine, OpenMW VR are huge deal breakers for me

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    • hornywarthogfart@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I don’t think I’ve actually played any of those so I can’t speak to them but hopefully someone else can. There is a website you can check compatibility on although I don’t know if it includes non-games and/or tools. Arizona Sunshine looks like it’s fine: www.protondb.com/search?q=arizona+sunshine

      If it’s gold or higher it’ll almost certainly play without issue. Silver will very likely play if you tweak the compatibility settings to change proton versions (go to game options in steam > compatibility > change the version. Bronze or lower are likely to require more than trivial tweaks or not work.

      Anyways, someone else can probably answer those games specifically but if not you can use the website to check.

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