• mesamune@lemmy.world
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      21 days ago

      95% of my games work on Linux. Quite a few windows specific programs too. Praise proton and the wine team!

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          20 days ago

          One very specific 3d printer program, greetings workshop (my mom had the program back in the day and she likes getting cards from it), Starcraft1 and Starcraft2 (works pretty well!), some contract specific programs. Theres a couple of others I have hooked up, but you get the idea.

          If it doesn’t work the first time, I usually go on https://appdb.winehq.org/ or the proton specific one and take a look.

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      20 days ago

      Yes, because of Proton, I’m seriously considering dumping Microsoft now. My big holdup was my library of Steam games. I just found out about Proton a couple of weeks ago, and as it turns out, most of my games are pretty compatible.

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        20 days ago

        Do it! I just made the switch (using PopOS as my distro, AMD CPU, 1080ti GPU) and haven’t had much trouble with my extensive Steam collection. The biggest issue so far was Bioshock Infinite which actually runs native and I had to edit some configs for texture pools. SteamVR / Index has been a little unstable but seems to generally work (I don’t use it enough to be sure if it’s Linux or my hardware getting old).

        SteamDB has been a excellent resource for checking compatibility and game specific tweaks.