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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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[–] Drewmeister@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago

Some things I wasn't told ahead of time but wish I had been:

  1. Your particular gfx card might have issues with your Linux distro. Save yourself a lot of troubleshooting and research ahead of time which distros are more likely to work out of the box with your card. After I started over and switched to PopOS for Nvidia, my life has been a lot easier.

  2. There is a fork of Proton called Proton-GE made by some dude with the moniker GloriousEggroll. It includes more features than base Proton like the ability to play more cutscenes and various graphical updates. For my build, it was essentially required.

  3. Just another note. Steam is great; for everything else there's Heroic launcher. It'll launch Gog, Epic... The non-steam launchers. And you can choose your compatibility layer, so if you install Steam first, it'll default to Proton.