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If this happens, will it be a mass exodus to Linux/Mac? Or will people just live with it? The fact that the Steam Deck has shown great promise in playing games on Linux has made me reconsider Windows yet again.

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[–] _ParallaxMax_@kbin.social 21 points 2 years ago (12 children)

Actually, if you're interested, gaming on Linux is great nowadays.
Nvidia GPUs are not really well supported, but they work.
However, if you game using Intel integrated graphics or an AMD GPU, the performance is perfect.
On steam I have yet to encounter a game that does not run well using Proton.

[–] themadcodger@kbin.social 3 points 2 years ago (5 children)

How does Proton work? Is it another application like wine?

[–] AshDene@kbin.social 6 points 2 years ago (4 children)

It's literally a fork of wine.

But from a practical perspective, you tell steam to start the game and it starts it, installing and using proton as necessary. If the developers haven't configured it you have to first click a button in preferences that says "use proton" (paraphrased), but that's it.

[–] TGRush@forum.fail 1 points 2 years ago

It isn't just a fork, its a collection of tools and patches around wine tailored for a specific purpose.

DXVK, VKD3D and other components aren't part of Wine or Proton's Wine builds, for example. They're extra tools used on-top of Wine.

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