Maybe the answer is having a PC only for those games. As a console. Like some people bought the N64 just to play Zelda and nothing else.
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FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 2 weeks agoIf I could get all my games to work on Linux, I’d nuke my dual-boot in a second. But I’m 99% linux at least.
(And yeah, I’ve tried the compatibility tools.)
bufalo1973@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
Saucepain@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Out of interest, when’s the last time you tried? So many games now seem to have Linux compatibility because of Valve’s push for the Steam Deck (and Machine). I’m in the same boat as you though, still haven’t taken the plunge.
Kualdir@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
The last barrier, anti-cheats.
apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
*the companies that refuse to use Linux compatible anti-cheats
Kualdir@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
or make their anti-cheats linux compatible :)
The kinda sad part is that a lot of people say “just don’t play those games then”, I play Valorant and PUBG with friends and I can’t force them to find us something else to play just because I want to switch to Linux.
eager_eagle@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
which is basically spyware anyway. I prefer to not play those games entirely.
sparky@lemmy.federate.cc 2 weeks ago
I blew away my Windows install in favour of Fedora about a year ago. There are only two games in my entire library that don’t work - Call of Duty and Battlefield, both of them because of anti-cheat fuckery. The other 300+ that I’ve tried playing have just worked. Basically tinkering required.
Times have really changed. The life hack you should know is to use ProtonPlus to install Proton-GE which is a customised version that has a bunch of fixes for different games. You just set Steam to use this one over Valve’s default version for all games and you’re pretty much done. They’ve integrated tweaks and fixes for thousands of games, on a per-game basis, so if you’re using this build of Proton then you have nothing else to do. No fiddling, no command line monkeying, just launch and play, same as Windows.
It’s honestly very impressive these days.