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beastlykings@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks agoWine need not apply. That’s old school. Sims 4 works great in proton. Basically just install steam and the rest is handled.
Better yet, install bazzite as your distro, gaming works out of the box.
CatLikeLemming@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 weeks ago
Proton is a fork of Wine, when people say Wine in a gaming context, there’s a decent chance they just mean Proton. Also there’s absolutely no need for gaming distros in this situation, gaming works out of the box on any (semi-normal) distro, the most you’ll have to do is flick a switch in Steam.
beastlykings@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
That’s fair, I’m a bit uninformed on wine and proton’s roots. However I’d argue that for someone like OPs girlfriend, a somewhat-immutable atomic based distro like bazzite might be better. Especially if it’s only used for gaming and YouTube 🤷♂️
But different strokes for different folks, so perhaps they’d be better off just installing steam on their distro of choice 👍
CarbonBasedNPU@lemm.ee 5 weeks ago
if you try giving someone used to windows an immutable distro they will think that something is wrong or things are too confusing.
beastlykings@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
It’s not fully immutable like steamos. But yes I do see your point, it could be confusing.