• psmgx@lemmy.world
    76·
    6 months ago

    Yeah I did. God bless WineDB.

    Steam before proton was okay for stuff like Fallout 3. Needed some hackery with Wine prefixes and getting the right DLLs in there but eventually worked. Older GoG games like Alpha Centauri were fine with DosBox.

    Proton is great. Cyberpunk 2077 on Ultra.

  • SavvyWolf@pawb.socialEnglish
    48·
    6 months ago

    It was rough. I basically gave up on playing 3D games on Linux for the longest time and used a dualboot. Much less hassle.

    What convinced me was when they verified Apex Legends, which was a game I was not expecting to be verified at all. Turns out Proton secretly got really good in all that time.

    • unalivejoy@lemm.eeEnglish
      11·
      6 months ago

      It’s hit or miss. A gold rated game on protondb performed terrible when I used a keyboard and mouse. Everything was smooth, but looking around was studdery. Even worse, the game failed to properly capture my mouse, so I kept getting stopped when my “cursor” hit the edge of the screen. I literally could not look around.

      • umbrella@lemmy.ml
        4·
        6 months ago

        the stutter has to do with mouse capture too.

        on my side changing to exclusive fullscreen helps, hope it helps you too!

  • Grass@sh.itjust.works
    44·
    6 months ago

    Back when you had to install steam in wine and then for a while you would have native steam and wine steam in the same distro install. Now it’s so easy that I figure anyone talking shit about gaming on Linux only plays those rootkit anticheat shooters or hasn’t played games since having kids or something and have become one of those people that are shocked to hear what they thought were current gen consoles are actually really old already.

      • Grass@sh.itjust.works
        3·
        6 months ago

        Trying to find the correct steamapps folder for the particular instance of the game and going through all the dot folders and wine folder structure… that hasn’t actually improved much now that I think about it.

        Gaming on Linux in general has improved a lot more than the pollution levels in my town at least.

  • Thrashy@lemmy.world
    36·
    6 months ago

    My first attempt to switch to Linux for my primary desktop was in 2007, and ended when my attempt to run WoW via WINE mostly worked, but had a weird an completely unfixable audio delay.

    Proton (and Valve’s efforts on SteamOS and the Steam Deck more generally) have been an absolute godsend for Linux as a usable daily-driver.

  • Diplomjodler@feddit.de
    24·
    6 months ago

    I would never have considered gaming on Linux until the Steam Deck came out. When reviews said it’s actually awesome, I became convinced to try it. Basically, the deck pushed me over the edge to ditch Windows altogether. So suck on that, Satya! No wonder MS is trying so hard to stop other OEMs from making Linux handhelds.

      • Goku@lemmy.world
        2·
        6 months ago

        Lol u stole the Arch mantra… I use arch btw.

        Ubuntu mantra should be something else like “snaps are my homies”

        • jelloeater - Ops Mgr@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          6 months ago

          I’ll use snaps if I HAVE to, ex Telegram. AppImages just seem like the same prob with grabbing binaries, in terms of updates. I might jump on the FlatPak train if I didn’t like apt so much. Man, OSX and brew really is so much better then this shit, just works and is always up to date.

    • Cyborganism@lemmy.ca
      5·
      6 months ago

      For real. I’ve been a pretty steady Linux user all my adult life and gaming was barely ever an option unless the game was built to run in Linux. When proton came out I gave it a shot and was blown away.

    • olutukko@lemmy.world
      22·
      6 months ago

      Actuslly wine was closest thing to proton, play on linux was nothing but a front end for managing wine software

  • spikederailed@lemmy.world
    21·
    6 months ago

    Wine and Cedega back in the early days, I played WiW in the Vanilla days on Suse Linux. My first foray into Linux was 2002 on a system that was decent for the time. I have fond memories of the first time I got my GeForce 3 card actually doing hardware acceleration. glxgears rendered hundreds of FPS.

  • Björn Tantau@swg-empire.de
    16·
    6 months ago

    I bought Tomb Raider 2013 because it was Linux native. Nowadays I recommend people to play the Windows version.

    I remember that Unreal Tournament 2003 came with a bootable Linux CD to play the game.

    • stoy@lemmy.zip
      6·
      6 months ago

      I have the original CD release of UT2004, it has a full Linux installer and worked well on a Dell E5400 running Ubuntu back in 2008-2010 when I was attending LAN perties

  • Okami@lemmy.worldEnglish
    14·
    6 months ago

    My last foray into Linux gaming was back in the early-2010s, and I was mostly just trying to get EVE Online to run unsuccessfully. I was running a laptop that was top if the line (in 2009) and my PCs were cobbled together from old Dells and HPs donated by family and friends or retired and given away by my company IT team.

    Steam on Linux was nice, and would show you which games in your library had Linux native versions to install. I held out on that and browser gamed for a while. Played a lot of Runescape and Minecraft. Taught myself to code a bit, but didn’t really get anywhere with that.

    Eventually I had money and time to put together a “proper” gaming PC, and of course I put Windows on it since I wanted to get an NVidia graphics card as I’d had so much trouble with the AMD drivers on my laptop.

    Ran Windows for gaming and kept Linux on the laptop since then. First PC ran Win7, which i loved. Next one ran Win 8, which I hated. Current one was running Win 10, which was meh, and I’ve only soured on it over time. Made the switch back to Linux last week after I got tired of M$ constantly asking me if I want to try Copilot on /both/ my work and personal PCs.

    Proton is fucking great. Never going back. The old laptop is still running strong after 15 years. It’s got BunsenLabs installed at the moment.

    • dtrain@lemmy.world
      4·
      6 months ago

      I read this and was like “pffft….starcraft 2 didn’t come out in 2010 , it was waaaay later”

      Then I checked and was like “Well fuck me”

  • BeigeAgenda@lemmy.ca
    12·
    6 months ago

    I have been playing on Linux for years before proton.

    WoW, HL, Fallout, Diablo, Quake, RimWorld to name a few.

    • ikidd@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      6 months ago

      Yah, I used to WoW on linux when I played. Pissed my guildies off because some patches I’d have to reboot before every boss attempt. But eventually it got pretty bulletproof.

    • loutr@sh.itjust.works
      3·
      6 months ago

      Back in 2008 or so, for a few patches WoW actually ran better under linux than windows because of some bug.

  • GluWu@lemm.ee
    11·
    6 months ago

    So much minecraft and kerbal space program. They were two of the very few games that ran naively and had cracked Linux files available on public trackers. I had to put a minimum of 1000 hours of minecraft using the clit mouse that old Dell laptops used to have. I hate that they got rid of those and now the only modern laptops with the clit mouse are Lenovos which I hate. Lenovo ruined ThinkPads.