I did some Linux gaming during COVID and recently swapped my HTPC to Linux (Bazzite/Deck) for a console style setup in the living room.
The game I was playing heavily at the time (Wildmender) absolutely runs better in Proton on Linux than it did on Windows. Less crashes, less stutters, faster load time. I assume it is due to preRendered shaders? Honestly not really sure but it is nice.
Going to do some Enshrouded on it next which is a game absolutely not at all optimized for Linux, so far it seems to be working fine but I’ve not gotten to that late game CPU intensity of loading areas heavily modified.
Nugscree@lemmy.world 1 day ago
They have been investing in proton heavily to make games work on Linux, most of my library just work out of the box, some with parameters and a very small amount of my 300+ games do not work. So when are you going to get your GabeCube?
nutsack@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
I don’t know because they haven’t announced a release date
Nugscree@lemmy.world 1 day ago
In the mean time you can check on protondb how much of your steam library is compatible with Linux using this link https://www.protondb.com/profile
Of the 474 games I have most are Gold or higher. 2 are Bronze (crashes often), 2 are Borked and 13 are awaiting more data to be rated. 60 even have native clients.
nutsack@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 hours ago
my hope is for native Linux releases like it used to happen with id software in the quake 3 days