• Lv_InSaNe_vL@lemmy.world
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      5 hours ago

      Just play steam games. Then it’s only 90 minutes every other night of troubleshooting

      (Mostly satire, proton has gotten incredible. I still have a windows install on my PC for gaming but I honestly don’t know the last time I’ve had an issue on my steam deck)

      • theskyisfalling@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        5 hours ago

        looks at empty wallet after paying for rent and food for the month :P

        Yeh proton is pretty good and I know things are way better than they ever were before but things still aren’t always simple for people with no experience of Linux :)

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          Tbh, the only problems I ever had with gaming on Linux was:

          • Nvidia driver bullshit
          • Couldn’t do multiplayer on one indie game

          Gaming on Linux is like 98% of the way there imo. It was overall a good experience, and we’ve got plans to switch the big family gaming computer to Linux when MS starts pushing their live service windows 12 crap

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          looks at empty wallet after paying for rent and food for the month :P

          continues to choose a paid platform over an arguably-superior free alternative

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            Hi Hawke, I understand your fustration with needing to troubleshoot things. Steam allows you to import any exe as a ‘non-steam game’ to your library and run it with the proton compatability layer. I sometimes have success getting a GOG game installed by running the install exe through proton or wine. Make sure you are using the most up to date version of lutris many package managers are outdated flatpak will gaurentee its most up to date. Hope it all works out for you

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            3 hours ago

            Lol wut, my wallet is empty hence why I’m using repacks and my initial post was about the frustration of getting them to run on Linux… So what are you on about?

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                2 hours ago

                I default to DODI but sadly this game wasn’t available from them. I’m still very new to Linux and this is my first foray into repacks on there so it is just a learning curve :)

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        3 hours ago

        When did I once “blame the OS”? Just because I am frustrated with not being able to get it running I never once said it was the fault of the OS. In fact the opposite, I care about continuing to use the OS and that is why I spent so long troubleshooting my issue…

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          3 hours ago

          It was a sarcastic jab. I don’t agree with software piracy in general, that’s all.