i primarily use fedora linux and im looking a website or something specifically for linux versions of games, specifically stardew valley and hyper light drifter. any help would be great!

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You do you and maybe you have no spare money, but Stardew Valley is probably one example of a game that is worth buying. Not too expensive, goes on sale regularly, available on GOG, creator still pumps out updates with small new content even.

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I bought it on my iPhone. I want to transfer the save to my computer and play it there.

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I don’t think you can transfer saves

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You can from Android, but I don’t think you can access the app data on iOS.

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Didn’t the latest big update give us cross-save or am I confusing this with another game that recently got it?

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Oh, can you do that? That would be cool.

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I’m not sure if it’s better to play native linux games than to use wine

some games I tried, the native linux version had broken lighting, while the wine version worked fine

also with wine all your saves are in the game folder, and it doesn’t make a mess by saving files wherever the developer thought would do the job

also it’s easier to find the latest version for windows than it is for linux

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To clarify, in case it’s not what you meant, I would recommend using Proton over wine

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probably you’re right, I haven’t yet done the research to understand how to use them properly or know the difference (iirc proton is wine modified by valve but that’s about as much as I know), I haven’t had time to look closely into it

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Agreed, and one particular example I can think of is Terraria’s Steam Workshop tools. If I try and publish a texture pack using the Linux-native version of the game, it crashes, but when I use the Windows version of the game via Proton, it works just fine. Not sure if the developers have gotten around to fixing this yet.

Edit: Now that I think of it, it’s a similar story with Half-Life 2 now that they added Steam Workshop support for its 20th anniversary. Crashes on native, works fine under Proton.

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I game on Linux (Arch, btw) and the only games that don’t work using wine/proton (so far) are those that require kernel level anti-cheat software. Everything else runs mostly flawlessly throgh Steam or Lutris.

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Some games have annoying issues. For example Brawlhalla has keyboard inputs locking

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Bro just use Proton, it’s unbelievable how well it works these days

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It even somehow works better than native Linux ports sometimes.

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What I find even more amazing is that with some regularity the windows versions run better (faster, fewer issues) in wine than on native windows. Used to happen more frequently when DX12 was still fairly fresh, but still happens.

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When you say wine, you do mean proton, right? Much better for games from what I understand.

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In my experience not just sometimes, but rather commonly. It often feels like the native Linux version, if it is even available, gets far fewer bug fixes - not like I can blame them, considering the far lower amount of Linux players, but sometimes I wonder why they even bother with it in the first place if they don’t want to bother with focusing on it, with how good Proton is.

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