Check Steam protonDB for playing Windows game on Linux!

[E-waste]

I'm posting this in Windows so that more people see it, might also cross-post into General if that is acceptable.

 

Go to https://protondb.con/ and type in any "Windows" game you can think of and check out the compatibility rating.  It's actually any steam store game, so there's a lot that's not searchable, like Forza Horizon 2 or games released some time ago.

 

I want to encourage you all to try Linux and steam on Linux to check compatibility and maybe not even need to use Windows for games

[Skiiwee29]

Moved to Linux section and no cross posting is not allowed. 

[thevictor390]

Can't talk about ProtonDB without mentioning WINE's AppDB

 

https://appdb.winehq.org/

 

Check there if it's not a Steam game.

[E-waste]

On 6/20/2023 at 5:35 PM, Skiiwee29 said:

Moved to Linux section

Can we work out a way to more easily share this with the Windows crowd who might have no idea that Linux even exists?  There are a lor of people who have no idea, or think it's just too difficult.

 

There is so much dedication to Linux that it is unbelievable and it would be great to share this information with those who are unaware.

[Skiiwee29]

1 minute ago, E-waste said:

Can we work out a way to more easily share this with the Windows crowd who might have no idea that Linux even exists?  There are a lor of people who have no idea, or think it's just too difficult.

 

There is so much dedication to Linux that it is unbelievable and it would be great to share this information with those who are unaware.

No. If people are interested in it, they will ask for it. No need to force feed them something they're not interested in. 

[BasicWombat]

On 6/22/2023 at 9:36 AM, E-waste said:

 There are a lor of people who have no idea, or think it's just too difficult.

While I'll give credit where it's due, I will say that for a lot of games it's still a pain.

With the effort from Steam, it's brought a lot of development to getting Windows games running under [some distros of] Linux, there's still too much fragmentation and issues.

 

A lot of popular games will never run under Linux (i.e. Activation/Blizzard), and others that run but are buggy to be fun.

I've gone through this experience lately trying to make an honest go of making the transition but just found too many irregularities to make it sustainable for me.

 

Look forward to the further development, but this is still far away from being a serious consideration for a lot of PC gamers.

 

[thevictor390]

6 hours ago, BasicWombat said:

A lot of popular games will never run under Linux (i.e. Activation/Blizzard)

Pretty sure all of the "Blizzard" side games run fine under WINE/Proton. Even Diablo 4 which just released, I have a friend playing it on Steam Deck. I've personally played Heroes of the Storm on Linux Mint.

[BasicWombat]

7 hours ago, thevictor390 said:

Pretty sure all of the "Blizzard" side games run fine under WINE/Proton. Even Diablo 4 which just released, I have a friend playing it on Steam Deck. I've personally played Heroes of the Storm on Linux Mint.

I stand corrected

[r00tb33r]

More and more I find myself asking the question "but why!?"

 

Don't get me wrong, I've used Wine 15 years ago.  I even had Cedega, the paid flavor for gaming, which predates Proton by like a decade.

 

With Microsoft practically giving away the operating system and availability of tools to customize (read: unbreak) it, I see no point in going through the pains of emulation (Wine can call itself a compatibility layer, but there is still an emulation/API translation aspect happening).

 

Linux runs so well in a virtual machine, why not just use it like that?

[Sarra]

On 6/21/2023 at 4:39 PM, Skiiwee29 said:

No. If people are interested in it, they will ask for it. No need to force feed them something they're not interested in. 

I wish I could agree with and like your post at the same time.

[Xiee]

22 hours ago, r00tb33r said:

Linux runs so well in a virtual machine, why not just use it like that?

Because running on bare metal is still better rather than a VM.

[cretsiah]

On 6/26/2023 at 5:23 PM, BasicWombat said:

While I'll give credit where it's due, I will say that for a lot of games it's still a pain.

With the effort from Steam, it's brought a lot of development to getting Windows games running under [some distros of] Linux, there's still too much fragmentation and issues.

 

A lot of popular games will never run under Linux (i.e. Activation/Blizzard), and others that run but are buggy to be fun.

I've gone through this experience lately trying to make an honest go of making the transition but just found too many irregularities to make it sustainable for me.

 

Look forward to the further development, but this is still far away from being a serious consideration for a lot of PC gamers.

 

i dont know about activision / blizzard

 

but i have more success with

- microsofts minecraft and halo master chief collection than i do ubisoft's launcher, granted i might not be able to play multi-player on halo's masterchief collection but that doesnt faze me

- epic and gog games via heroic launcher or through something called bottles again multi-player and or anti-cheat might be an issue