I dunno but I tried that and it didn’t work at all. Had to go searching around online for how to even install a damn game. Then when I launched it, the game started running at like 2FPS.
The same game runs on the same PC on Windows at 144FPS.
And that’s the story of the time I tried to game on Linux.
I dunno but I tried that and it didn’t work at all. Had to go searching around online for how to even install a damn game.
Just for shits and giggles I fired up a VM and did a clean Steam installation from Flathub. This is the default:
Steam Play (=Proton) is on for supported Windows games. For unsupported games it’s off.
Had to go searching around online for how to even install a damn game.
Wait, you had so much trouble to look if the “Enable Steam Play” checkbox was ticked? 🙄
Yet another person missing the point 🤦
Yet another person missing the point 🤦
Nah, we all get the point. You claim that Steam does not come with Proton on regular Linux distributions but you’re wrong which is an easily googlable fact you continue to deny. If your installation of Steam is somehow broken, that’s specific to you. At most the “Enable Steam Play” checkbox has to be ticked in Steam’s settings.
You claim that Steam does not come with Proton on regular Linux distributions but you’re wrong which is an easily googlable fact you continue to deny.
I continue to deny it because it’s wrong. I don’t know what Google says, I just know how it worked when I used it myself.
At most the “Enable Steam Play” checkbox has to be ticked in Steam’s settings.
Which is something it does not tell you and does not tell you how to do.
Gabagoolzoo@kbin.social 11 months ago
Installing games is same as Windows, download and launch via Steam. As for lack of FPS, willing to bet you had an Nvidia card but didn't install the drivers for it.
helenslunch@feddit.nl 11 months ago
So it sounds a lot like you’ve never actually done this before because that’s factually incorrect.
Wrong again.
Gabagoolzoo@kbin.social 11 months ago
You click the game on Steam, click "install". That's the same on Windows or Linux, the client doesn't change.
Going from 144fps to 2fps sounds like a graphics driver issue, what was the problem then?
helenslunch@feddit.nl 11 months ago
Incorrect again.
I don’t know. The “that’s the story of the time I tried to play games on Linux” indicates that I, and most every other user, doesn’t care enough to spend all day burrowing through search engines and support threads to figure out how to just make the thing work.
That’s why the Steam Deck, and SteamOS, exists.
woelkchen@lemmy.world 11 months ago
As a long time openSUSE user I know for a fact that you’re wrong.
helenslunch@feddit.nl 11 months ago
And as someone who has actually used Steam on Linux, I know that you’re wrong .