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What's the state of Linux gaming with Proton? (lemmy.zip)

submitted 1 week ago by psx_crab@lemmy.zip to c/gaming@lemmy.world

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As everyone know, Windows 10 support is ending very soon, and here i am having a very old hardware that couldn't support win11. So my choice now is either:

1)keep using it and risk security breach

2)upgrade hardware to something that support TPM 2.0 and upgrade to win11(costly)

3)switch to Linux and game using Proton

Since i mostly use this machine to watch movies, youtube, and gaming, and most of my game is on Steam anyway(some free games from Epic, and two from Window store), i'm wondering if it's better to just switch to linux from now on and wanted to know what's the compatibility of the game of late. Note that eventually i will have to upgrade my machine anyway, it barely play any new game released this few years.

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[–] FigMcLargeHuge@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Don't see why you wouldn't be just fine. I am playing Dune Awakening right now on my Linux machine. There's the proton db website to help if you run into issues, but I haven't had any so far. If I have a problem with a game, I usually force it to an older version of proton, or just fiddle with the versions and that usually fixes things.

Drives are cheap. Get a new drive, pull out the windows drive and put in the new blank drive and install linux and give it all a try. I just bought a new gaming laptop and the first thing I did before powering it up was swap out the nvme drive to a larger empty one and installed PopOs to match my desktop machine.

[–] nocturne@slrpnk.net 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I was unable to get past the privacy notice or Eula, I forget which to be able to play dune.

[–] FigMcLargeHuge@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 week ago

I just checked and I have Compatibility set to Proton 8.0-5. Try that and see if that makes it work for you.