#protondb

[manjaro-official]

deep rock is a good video game 👍

[avalost]

knock on wood, but so far Avowed is running fine on Linux! fuck yeah!!!

[vivy-nx]

tried running Undertale Yellow through Proton and it mostly works but also it runs noticeably slower than it ought to. anyone else run into this? it seems basically the same regardless of which version of proton I'm running, what else do people normally do to try and get performance to improve in a case like this?

[esquie]

wow elden ring does run well on steam deck… that’s crazyyyy

installing elden ring on anthonys steam deck cuz he wants to try it when he next visits and yknow what. good excuse for me to try it on steam deck too and maybe replay it... i do miss elden ring....all the time

[kde-plasma-official]

Sell me on kde plasma. Can I play all my steam games on it?

I'm just a desktop for your Linux PC, if u want to know if you can play a specific steam game, you can look

- on Steam, is it Steam Deck compatible? Steam will tell you if it is verified, playable or unsupported or unknown yet.

- check ProtonDB. People post their setups, experiences, and workarounds there. As Proton is Wine, just like on WineDB games get rated in in Bronze-Silver-Gold-Platinum and is a good indicator if u are able to play it.

- For multiplayer games there's Are We Anti Cheat Yet?, a crowd-sourced list of games using anti-cheats and their compatibility

[brudiza-spudnik]

to be honest I'm not going to be impressed with Proton until Steam implements automatic and game-specific fixes. when i installed Bully i had to go to protondb to find out i had to install xact and d3dx9, set compatibility mode to Windows Vista, change the launch options and use Proton experimental. i can do that as a moderately competent linux user, but Joe Regular cannot. until Steam knows to do all that automatically - especially on their own bespoke hardware which they know inside and out - Joe Regular cannot play Bully on Linux.

[onlylivingboyinsanmyshuno]

ill probably wait until its more stable on linux tho

everyone in simblr is off playing bg3 but i think i might try out starfield instead 🫣 i know the reviews have been meh but its not like im gonna pay for it

[aqwult]

considering the amount of noise i can find between october and now about how mesa/kernel is fucked (for certain rx 6800 xt users like me) plus there's multiple posts daily working towards repairing the errors i see on crash, and there's a protondb report from today from a nvidia gpu user claiming halo infinite crashes their display server now also (fwiw the crashing did start after a halo update not a system update)

i am just going to wait. impatiently.

[belost-the-watcher]

Day 3 of messing with Linux!

Finally got the graphics card drivers installed! I think I got it done right the first time too but Linux tried to boot using my onboard graphics which was making it just show a black screen. After plugging a monitor into the motherboard, I saw that it was actually working and waiting to log in. That hopefully also fixed the issue with Wayland randomly crashing and making everything unusable.

I got Steam working and learned how to use Proton and look things up in ProtonDB, so now games work too!

I compared the system resources between Linux (Fedora w/ KDE Plasma) and Windows 10 too. From running a web browser (Firefox on Linux, Brave on Windows), Discord, and Steam:

Linux - CPU 4-5%, Memory 5.4 GB Windows - CPU 11-19%, Memory 9.7 GB

Which was really surprising to me :V I knew Windows has gotten bloated (and it's even worse in Windows 11) but I didn't expect nearly a 300% difference in resources.

[pizzleyanked]

Good night, I'm sorry to bother, but you're one of the few people that play the Steam Deck and the Nintendo Switch. What do you think about the latest Switch 2 announcements? Do you recommend getting a SD over the Switch?

uhh that's quite a tricky question! i do truly believe that the core audiences for both handhelds are different. if anyone who sees this has experience with both devices please chime in with your view!!

for context: i own an oled switch and an oled steam deck (512 gb supplemented with a 128gb sd. i don't need a lot of space for the games i play, but i may upgrade in the future). i am an oled screen girl and it was actually the oled deck release that pushed me to get one, but ymmv!

i barely played any first party games on the switch, and i believe i own 2. i got into the switch because i love handheld gaming and at the time the switch was the only option. so to me, losing out on the nintendo exclusives isn't a big deal and i can just emulate them. granted, given that the switch 2 seems to be roughly similar in terms of specs to the steam deck, we can rule out the emulation of s2 specific titles on the deck. this doesn't concern me at all but it's important to keep in mind

also, nintendo is one of the scummiest companies in gaming in a way that hits on many points i'm passionate about--preservation, emulation, video game ownership, keeping people inside nintendo's environment with scummy pricing practices. they're a company i don't want to support in general, and the pricing issue is especially big on the s2

for me, the steam deck is excellent for many reasons. it's a handheld pc, which means that you can use it for whatever you want. you can emulate, you can play games from other libraries (like itch.io, gog, epic, etc), you can mod them, you can watch movies, you can write a novel, whatever. of course, it means learning how to work with steamOS, which is a linux distribution based on archlinux. it can be tricky, but because steamOS is making waves, there's a lot of resources to help. and again, you can just plug and play your steam library without ever going into desktop mode. since the deck is still kind of fringe, not many games have profiles set up for it, so you need to fiddle with settings more often than not (protondb is an excellent resource for this and you can do it using steam's performance settings tab to create a profile for each game). however, we've been seeing studios making an effort to support the steam deck more and more. i'm very much ok with this, but it may be a barrier to some. i don't need a huge performance since i just don't get the appeal of mainstream, high budget, high fidelity aaa games. if i did i'd look into the rog ally and legion go

again: it really depends on what you want to get out of your handheld device. i was never part of nintendo's core audience because i like their products, but because handheld gaming is better for me for many reasons. i like not being forced to play one game library exclusively and am ok with having to set performance settings (the deeper fiddly stuff is only if you want to go the extra mile and start modding on the deck and such). so the steam deck is my choice

[wayfire-official]

Trying to play Titanfall 2 because I bought it for 3gp during a sale, but it just won't start for some reason. Furthest I got was on wayfire where it gave me the splash screen in mega low resolution and then crashed. Now it doesn't even do that anymore. I even went back to x11 gnome just in case it's a Wayland thing. Northstar client doesn't seem to make a difference. Meanwhile protondb just says everything is cool and fine and works perfectly out of the box???

[lonepower]

my dad has been a linux nerd for as long as i can remember, and for as long as i can remember he has had all sorts of problems with it, mainly relating to wanting to tinker something but not fully understanding how ([/glances at my 8 consecutive brickings of mass effect] surely that's not hereditary or anything), so i was sort of braced for it to be A Process. but... and, not to quote todd howard or anything, but... it... just works? like protondb said all of my games could be made to run with custom proton or dxvk or whatever (some of which I'd already been using to spoof win10 games on 7), but the ones I've tried so far haven't needed any tinkering, they just... go right on? wack.

anyway i'm a linux convert now i guess

[psycheterminal]

HOW TO SWITCH TO LINUX

So, we're going to go through this step by step.

Before we begin, let's keep a few things clear:

Linux is not Windows, it is its own system, with its own culture, history and way of doing things.

There are many "distributions", "distros" or "flavors" of Linux. What works for you may be different from what people recommend.

You'll want to read up on how to use the terminal; the basics an absolute beginner needs is short, but important. It's not hard to learn, just takes a bit of time and effort.

ADOBE DOES NOT WORK ON LINUX.

WINE is not a Windows Emulator, it should not be treated as such.

Proton is a compatibility tool built on WINE by Valve, which has its own compatibility database, called ProtonDB. It still isn't an emulator and can have quirks.

Not everything will work on Linux. Dead by Daylight actively blocks Linux players from joining a game, as an example. The Windows Edition of Minecraft is another. (But the Java Edition does!)

There are many FOSS alternatives to popular programs, but they may lack maturity and features compared to their commercial counterparts.

You might want to invest in an external drive. It'll keep your files safe and you'll be able to move all your files to a

Step 1: why do you want to switch? Are you concerned about privacy? Are you wanting to boycott Windows? Is 11 not an option for your hardware? Want to try something new? Be honest with yourself on what you want to do. Write down your hardware specs. You'll want to know what kind of processor, RAM, video card and memory you're working on.

Step 2: Make three lists: Programs you need for work, programs you use at home (that aren't games) and games you like to play. Check each of these for if they already have a Linux port. For games, you can check if it's Steamdeck compatible! For those where you can't find one or it's not clear, you can check for the program on WINE HQ and ProtonDB (for games.) Not all of them might be compatible!

There might be Linux-based alternatives for several things, but keep in mind that Adobe does NOT support Linux and does NOT work on WINE! Sea of Thieves and LibreOffice works, Dead by Daylight and Scrivener do not.

Step 3: Get a GOOD QUALITY USB drive stick! I recommend one that's at least 30 GB. That sounds like a lot, but operating systems these days are huge-but there's some fun stuff you can get. It's really important that you get a good quality one, not just a random stick off a reseller like Wish.

Step 4: Remember when I asked you why you were switching? Time to pick a Linux version. There is no "one, true Linux" version-the operating system is open, groups make their own versions and put it out into the world. If you're confused, check out Distrowatch. Read a list here. Download an option-if you have a few sticks around, try multiple ones.

Step 5: Plug in your USB and use either UNetbootin or Rufus to create your boot device. Rufus might be easier if you're not super computer savvy. When looking over the options, make sure there's some storage, set it to most of what's left. Take out your boot stick for now.

Step 6: Find out how to boot to your BIOS. Every computer has a BIOS. Check out your model of laptop/motherboard to figure out what it is. Arrange boot order so that your USB gets checked first.

Step 7: If you have an external drive, move all your personal stuff, game saves, etc to it or purchase cloud drive storage for it. Always back up your files, and with multiple methods.

Step 8: You aren't going to be installing Linux quite yet; instead, boot it up from USB. Note, it'll be a bit slow on USB 2.0, though a USB-3 device and slot should make matters easier. Test each version you're considering for a week. It is super important that you test! Sometimes problems crop up or you turn out to not like it!

Step 9: Once you find a distro you like and have tested, consider if you want to dual boot or completely wipe Windows. Some programs for work might require Windows or you might have a few games that ONLY work on Windows and that's perfectly fine! Just keep in mind, as of Windows 11, this option is not recommended. If you want to use dualboot, you want to keep Windows 10 and NOT update. There's great tutorials on how to make it happen, search engines should be able to point you to one.

Step 10: Fully install Linux and immediately update. Even the latest installers will not have the current security patches. Just let it update and install whatever programs you want to use.

Step 11: Enable compatibility tools in Steam if you're a gamer. File, options, compatibility. Also, check the Software Store in your OS for open source re-implementations for your favorite older games!

You're now a Penguin!

[lamortwrites]

After all the complaining I was doing the other day. Just checked protondb and bg3 is rated gold...

[boreal-sea]

your probably have but uh, in case you haven’t, have you looked at protondb for help on running bg3 on linux?

I genuinely can't stress enough how much of a n00b I am when it comes to linux. I have heard of protondb but I haven no idea what it is lol.

Google tells me it's something that should be, in theory, automatically part of Steam on Linux already? like, built-in?

I've managed to get the game installed, at this point it won't run and I have no idea why.

[moonsinkfoxgirl]

trying to run pseudoregalia on ubuntu with proton unfortunately very unsuccessful... protondb is full of archlinux people for whom it just works out of the box, but not for me it seems...