If rainbow 6 ever gets Linux support, I think I can fully uninstall windows. Unfortunately if I need to have windows installed for something, I might as well compartmentalize Linux for productivity, and windows for gaming
I’ve been working on a NixOS setup over the past few days and I just got BG3 to run a couple of hours ago. I had to switch from the Mesa driver to the AMD one, I can’t login to the launcher (CORS issue lmao), and it sometimes doesn’t launch at all. It’s still a bit of a WIP, but it did seem to run at least as well as it did on Windows when it worked. I’m hoping that having an ephemeral, config-based setup will save me a lot of this trouble in the future.
Proton is a translation layer that uses Wine and other tricks to allow you to run Windows games on Linux. It’s a Valve project that is making a ton of progress on compatibility. It’s a huge part of the success of the Steam Deck.
A compatibility layer that lets you run native windows games on Linux through Steam. It’s gotten better and better over the years and supports a majority of popular games now.
I’ve recently installed Linux. Have a hdd full with steam games (for windows)
Is there any way to get that to work without needing to format the drive and install the games again? Looked a bit at it but every article seems to suggest formating the drive to get it to work with proton.
It’s technically possible but not recommended as the NTFS format has some quirks under Linux. Give yourself the best chance at everything working and do full reinstalls after a format.
“Has some quirks” is putting it mildly. I had a couple of drives that I thought were dead because I kept getting errors. I reformatted them to ext4 and they were fine.
With proton, this is less and less the case.
Indeed, God bless proton
Basically, I tried proton and I’ll never go back.
The overhead of windows is so heavy
I just made the jump again and I don’t think I’ll be going back to Windows. I’m getting improved performance in many of my favourite titles.
Very happy to be free of windows finally.
If rainbow 6 ever gets Linux support, I think I can fully uninstall windows. Unfortunately if I need to have windows installed for something, I might as well compartmentalize Linux for productivity, and windows for gaming
This is understandable, I still have a Win10 install on a separate disk in case I want to run VR on my Oculus CV1. Otherwise it’s all Linux babyyyy
I’ve been working on a NixOS setup over the past few days and I just got BG3 to run a couple of hours ago. I had to switch from the Mesa driver to the AMD one, I can’t login to the launcher (CORS issue lmao), and it sometimes doesn’t launch at all. It’s still a bit of a WIP, but it did seem to run at least as well as it did on Windows when it worked. I’m hoping that having an ephemeral, config-based setup will save me a lot of this trouble in the future.
Was amazed at how good this is.
what is proton? what does it do?
Proton is a translation layer that uses Wine and other tricks to allow you to run Windows games on Linux. It’s a Valve project that is making a ton of progress on compatibility. It’s a huge part of the success of the Steam Deck.
A compatibility layer that lets you run native windows games on Linux through Steam. It’s gotten better and better over the years and supports a majority of popular games now.
if only I could multibox.
turns out a compatibility layer takes up system resources. who knew.
edit: also fuck minimize on focus loss, I’m not even sorry for my Windows partition while that’s a thing.
It’s just a even more evil cheating if still do it
I’ve recently installed Linux. Have a hdd full with steam games (for windows) Is there any way to get that to work without needing to format the drive and install the games again? Looked a bit at it but every article seems to suggest formating the drive to get it to work with proton.
It’s technically possible but not recommended as the NTFS format has some quirks under Linux. Give yourself the best chance at everything working and do full reinstalls after a format.
“Has some quirks” is putting it mildly. I had a couple of drives that I thought were dead because I kept getting errors. I reformatted them to ext4 and they were fine.
I think the real gamechanger was Vulkan. OpenGL was just not suited for this.