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megabat ,

Oh yeah. Back in the late 90s I played all the games ported by Loki Games. I played the native quakes, portal 1 & 2. And using regular Wine and some winetricks I played about 300 hours of Skyrim and completed Mass Effect 1,2,3.

suzune ,

Yep. Unreal Tournament was also great and Neverwinter Nights.

TimeSquirrel , (edited )
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I was playing Quake 3 and Unreal Torunament 2003 in the early 2000s, they had native versions. One of the first mainstream Linux gaming pioneers.

I used to use Second Life on Linux too with a third party client.

parricc ,

The first half of the 2000s was a lot better for Linux gaming than the second half. That time period after game companies stopped releasing anything for Linux but before Wine became realistically usable was very dark.

thehatfox ,
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Quake 2 also had a Linux port, as did Return to Castle Wolfenstein. iD Software was one of the few early supporters of Linux for commercial games.

Gork ,

I once got The Elder Scrolls: Oblivion to run on Ubuntu, but some strange Bethesda bugs managed to creep into the experience. There was a giant 2D tree taking up a chunk of the skybox that I couldn’t get rid of, so I made it headcannon when I was playing it.

Luckily when I tried it on the Steam Deck not too long ago, this bug was no longer present.

Voroxpete ,

So, what you’re saying is you had an early access build of Elden Ring?

TheFadingOne ,

I started gaming on Linux at the beginning of 2019, that was afaik half a year after Proton was released, and I still remember how rough around the edges it was. Back then it still felt somewhat like a coin flip (the odds in reality were obviously a good deal better) if a game ran. Seeing how much they improved it over the last 5 years is really quite something.

BeigeAgenda ,
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I have been playing on Linux for years before proton.

WoW, HL, Fallout, Diablo, Quake, RimWorld to name a few.

loutr ,
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Back in 2008 or so, for a few patches WoW actually ran better under linux than windows because of some bug.

ikidd ,
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Yah, I used to WoW on linux when I played. Pissed my guildies off because some patches I’d have to reboot before every boss attempt. But eventually it got pretty bulletproof.

rickyrigatoni ,

PlayOnLinux was a good friend. Sometimes.

humbletightband ,

Isn’t it now?

Voyajer ,
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Except for all the bad runability reports made to winehq by its users to the appdb

muntedcrocodile ,

I try to only support the games that provide a linux gnu build but proton has really made that a fuzzy line.

chrishazfun ,

When all I was playing was browser games and Minecraft like 10 years ago

ipacialsection ,
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There was still Wine, and PlayOnLinux helped further, but when I looked for a game I wanted to play on WineDB, there was no guarantee it even had an entry, and if it wasn’t listed as “platinum”, the chance of you experiencing any reported issue was very high.

Not to mention, playing Steam games that weren’t native was an impossibility.

Thankfully I was more of a console gamer at the time, and I got a lot of enjoyment out of the few games that received Linux ports - like Team Fortress 2!

DJalexTheGameDev ,
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I played cracked Minecraft on Xubuntu in 2014. And some games on Wine too.

Diplomjodler ,

I would never have considered gaming on Linux until the Steam Deck came out. When reviews said it’s actually awesome, I became convinced to try it. Basically, the deck pushed me over the edge to ditch Windows altogether. So suck on that, Satya! No wonder MS is trying so hard to stop other OEMs from making Linux handhelds.

cyborganism ,

For real. I’ve been a pretty steady Linux user all my adult life and gaming was barely ever an option unless the game was built to run in Linux. When proton came out I gave it a shot and was blown away.

jelloeater85 ,
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Proton got me to dump Windows… NGL Windows 11 and Lemmy did help push me over the edge. I use Ubuntu btw.

youngGoku ,

Lol u stole the Arch mantra… I use arch btw.

Ubuntu mantra should be something else like “snaps are my homies”

jelloeater85 ,
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I’ll use snaps if I HAVE to, ex Telegram. AppImages just seem like the same prob with grabbing binaries, in terms of updates. I might jump on the FlatPak train if I didn’t like apt so much. Man, OSX and brew really is so much better then this shit, just works and is always up to date.

tormeh ,

Brew sucks. It’s soooo slooooow. Flatpak is awesome, AppImage is weird, and Snaps are kinda there as well I guess.

jelloeater85 ,
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Brew on Linux, yeah, I don’t even bother. But on OSX it’s a first class citizen, works as well as yum and apt.

tormeh ,

I’m using OSX for work and Homebrew is really slow there too. Honestly though that’s really my only complaint. That, and some aesthetic yank caused by it being a bunch of shell and ruby scripts in a trench coat, but that’s not an objective thing.

jelloeater85 ,
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I there is a setting to have it not check all packages for updates when installing a new one. I forget where. It’s auto update something.

CalcProgrammer1 ,
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I started using Linux with Ubuntu 6.06 and at the time I was really into the game Jedi Academy. It used OpenGL and thus ran fairly well on Wine. I upgraded from an NVIDIA GeForce 4 MX420 to an ATI Radeon X1600Pro and the ATI drivers were absolute garbage so I kinda gave up on Linux gaming for a while. I was set on going NVIDIA on my next PC but around that time AMD bought ATI and opened up their documentation, leading to rapid improvements in the open source AMD drivers. Went with a Radeon HD 5870 and not long after I built that PC I was gaming in Wine again, though poorly on non OpenGL games still. Then Steam for Linux officially released and a lot of native games became available but I was still running Windows Steam in Wine as native Steam didn’t play Windows games. Then the Gallium Nine project offered a way to play DX9 games with significantly improved performance and I played a lot of Skyrim on Linux as well as a lot of other DX9 games. Then Vulkan happened and soon DXVK and Proton and the modern Linux gaming landscape evolved quite rapidly until we got to where we are today.

MrSoup ,

I played a lot on my laptop with Debian 9 with just plain wine and one prefix for everything (I don’t remember the wine version).
I can’t remember all the games I played, but I do remember the last 3: all the Deadspace

Hubi ,

I hated Windows 8 enough to put up with it at the time. It’s nuts how much things have improved since then.

andrew0 ,
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I got NFS Most Wanted (2005) working in Wine, and was somewhat impressed how easy it was at the time. Game worked quite well, and would only crash once in a while with some cryptic errors that I don’t remember. Made me hopeful for the future of linux gaming :)

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