I’m thinking of installing Linux (think I’m going to use Nobara) on my new budget gaming PC, and my biggest worry is video games compatibility. I have most of my games on Steam and Epic. Some on GOG, and some on Itch. I know a bit about steam compatibility, but not much about the rest. Is this something I need to worry about, or should it just work?

Edit: for anyone that finds this, sounds like the Heroic Launcher is the way to go. Thanks everyone!

Edit 2: I’ve used Heroic Launcher and Steam + Proton for a few days now, works great! I’d recommend it to anyone with a similar question.

  • Rudee@lemmy.ml
    8·
    9 months ago

    You can install Heroic Games launcher, which is an alternative Epic + GOG front-end (it also works on Windows and is apparently better than the real thing). You can use it to manage the compatibility layers similarly to Steam, but in my experience its function is on a game-by-game basis

    As another commenter has said, go through ProtonDB and check all the games you can’t live without

  • kevincox@lemmy.ml
    5·
    9 months ago

    Firstly, Epic Games doesn’t officially support Linux. So if anything goes wrong you may be out of luck.

    However I have had success playing a handful of games on Lutris under Wine. I would check online sites for reviews of the games that you are most interested in and see how they worked for others. Wine is getting better every day so this will keep improving but I would at least look at the games you currently play and see what is up.

    One major concern is games with DRM or anti-cheat. Most of these will not work on Wine, but providers are slowly adding support. But again, looking up the games you are interested in will tell you.

  • someonesmall@lemmy.ml
    3·
    9 months ago

    I’'m using Lutris to play games on Epic:

    • Create a new wine/proton prefix
    • Put the epic launcher installer on C:, set it as the exe to run in the Lutris settings, run it and install.
    • Change the executable to the exe of the installed epic launcher. Run the launcher, install and play your game.

    I’m using a separate wine/proton prefix for each game. This allows to appy custom proton settings and workarounds per game. The epic launcher is about 250mb so it doesn’t waste that much disk space.

  • Ljdawson (Sync dev)@lemmy.world
    2·
    9 months ago

    Hey your title has unescaped html in. I’m guessing you’re using sync?

    This was a bug in this last release when editing titles. It’s fixed for the next release but I thought I’d give you a heads up.