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DosDudešŸ‘¾@retrolemmy.com
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With proton, this is less and less the case.

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AbsolutelyNotCats@lemdro.idOP
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Indeed, God bless proton

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intelati@programming.dev
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Basically, I tried proton and Iā€™ll never go back.

The overhead of windows is so heavy

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batmangrundies@lemmy.world
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I just made the jump again and I donā€™t think Iā€™ll be going back to Windows. Iā€™m getting improved performance in many of my favourite titles.

Very happy to be free of windows finally.

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ComradeKhoumrag@infosec.pub
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If rainbow 6 ever gets Linux support, I think I can fully uninstall windows. Unfortunately if I need to have windows installed for something, I might as well compartmentalize Linux for productivity, and windows for gaming

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bigdog_00@lemmy.world
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This is understandable, I still have a Win10 install on a separate disk in case I want to run VR on my Oculus CV1. Otherwise itā€™s all Linux babyyyy

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o_d [he/him]@lemmygrad.ml
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Iā€™ve been working on a NixOS setup over the past few days and I just got BG3 to run a couple of hours ago. I had to switch from the Mesa driver to the AMD one, I canā€™t login to the launcher (CORS issue lmao), and it sometimes doesnā€™t launch at all. Itā€™s still a bit of a WIP, but it did seem to run at least as well as it did on Windows when it worked. Iā€™m hoping that having an ephemeral, config-based setup will save me a lot of this trouble in the future.

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zcode@infosec.pub
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Was amazed at how good this is.

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heehaw@lemmy.ml
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what is proton? what does it do?

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moody@lemmings.world
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Proton is a translation layer that uses Wine and other tricks to allow you to run Windows games on Linux. Itā€™s a Valve project that is making a ton of progress on compatibility. Itā€™s a huge part of the success of the Steam Deck.

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Ibaudia@lemmy.world
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A compatibility layer that lets you run native windows games on Linux through Steam. Itā€™s gotten better and better over the years and supports a majority of popular games now.

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metaStatic@kbin.social
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if only I could multibox.

turns out a compatibility layer takes up system resources. who knew.

edit: also fuck minimize on focus loss, Iā€™m not even sorry for my Windows partition while thatā€™s a thing.

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whitecapstromgard@sh.itjust.works
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I think the real gamechanger was Vulkan. OpenGL was just not suited for this.

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Petter1@lemm.ee
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Itā€™s just a even more evil cheating if still do it

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Poopmeister@lemm.ee
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Iā€™ve recently installed Linux. Have a hdd full with steam games (for windows) Is there any way to get that to work without needing to format the drive and install the games again? Looked a bit at it but every article seems to suggest formating the drive to get it to work with proton.

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Water1053@lemmy.world
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Itā€™s technically possible but not recommended as the NTFS format has some quirks under Linux. Give yourself the best chance at everything working and do full reinstalls after a format.

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seitanic@lemmy.sdf.org
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ā€œHas some quirksā€ is putting it mildly. I had a couple of drives that I thought were dead because I kept getting errors. I reformatted them to ext4 and they were fine.

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