I’ve almost completely switched over at this point. The only reason I really keep Windows around anymore is because of some specific games that use incompatible anti-cheat systems (like CoD), and for VR (although, I hear the Valve Index works almost perfectly on Linux, and projects like OpenHMD are getting closer to running Oculus on Linux too)
I started dual booting Linux back when Steam for Linux was reasonably new and Portal 2’s native port was on beta. Briefly went back to Windows after building a new, much powerful system for about a year, DXVK & later on Proton happened, and now all the games I care about work flawlessly.
There have been games on my Steam library that I never ran on Windows despite them not officially supporting Linux.
With the deck I seriously hope devs slowly but surely start thinking about native ports as well, but I won’t mind waiting another - uhh, 10?! - years for that to happen. I expect Steam Linux Runtime & Flatpak to be the DXVK & Proton of native ports - as in, the thing that will make them “viable” instead of “theoretically possible”. Win32 is still the most stable ABI on Linux after all.
I’ve been playing BG3 using Proton since Patch one. It went from running alright, too absolute shit, too Amazing recently. There was a period during EA where Vulkan wasn’t working at all. Possibly because they were optimizing. As of now, I run it 1440p, max or near max settings, on a mediocre PC with Proton 8.0x. It’s a truly beautiful game, and I’ve only seen about 75% of ACT 1…
So yes, although not natively supported, it runs perfect with Proton.
I know I’m super late to this post, but I just bought a brand new gaming laptop that came with w11. Was installing games to play and installed days gone. It refused to launch. Went over to my steam deck, installed it, and it ran flawlessly.
Moral of the story, w11 is so bad that sometimes games work better on Linux! 😂
Ahh thanks this looks promising. The only thing that I don’t get from that article is where they talk about the nvidia gui settings. I’m not seeing that. Is that the same as the nvidia xserver application?
So I found the issue in case anyone comes across this. I had to switch to x11 gnome instead of wayland on the login screen in fedora 38. After that Diablo runs like butter!
Afaik it's nearly impossible. Even the Index has a lot of issues and is I think somewhat semi abandoned in favor of the Deckard and because of their internal SteamOS change towards Arch. I would expect some news & improvements with the Deckard release but right now I wouldn't recommend it.
this is what I have been dealing with on steam both Xorg and Wayland, it will launch after a really long time, wondering if this has anything to do with. Other games also work fine one steam is opened however
Have you tried using different proton versions wit hit? Launcher uses .NET/C# so it can be problematic. After the first execution you should be able to just add –launcher-skip to the command and skip it.
Execute steam with PRESSURE_VESSEL_SHELL=instead steam and launch the game. In the term it will open type “$@” (with the ") and paste output here, we’ll see what proton fusses about
What fascinates the most about desktop Linux and gaming on Linux that all of that was achieved with limited funding compared to Microsoft. Imagine what could be possible with more market share and more companies investing in the space. The current state is already great, but I believe we are just getting started.
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