Honestly, check www.protondb.com and look for the games you want to play, it will let you know how well they work out of the box by just installing them on steam and hitting play. The reality is that it very much depends on what games you want to play, if you like CoD and other competitive multiplayer you’re unfortunately in the missing 10%, but for most cases you should be fairly well covered.
yardratianSoma@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
thing is, not even protondb is reliable. There’s been many times I’ve tried running a game, and encountered an error not posted anywhere, nor protondb, reddit or steam forums. All the comments on protondb will say, “works great out of the box!”, and I’m just left digging through random forums at that point.
spicehoarder@lemmy.zip 19 hours ago
The ONLY issue I’ve had like this was related to me having a dual monitor setup.
racemaniac@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 hours ago
As if that’s an acceptable explanation.
Why the fuck is that breaking games… Reminds me of when i was playing around with linux 15 years ago, and i saw how poor multimonitor support was compared to windows back then. And they’re still managing to have stupid issues like this in 2025…
This is why the linux desktop keeps failing “i want to play a game but it doesn’t work because i have 2 monitors”… Who wants to use that as an OS??
dustyData@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
Multi monitor also breaks some games on Windows.
yardratianSoma@lemmy.ca 16 hours ago
well, I have a dual monitor setup, and can concur, have had many issues related to it, but I blame that more on linux/wayland than proton/wine.