I’ve gotten to the point where I just assume that the game will work with proton. I’ll check protondb if it’s an expensive game but other than that I just pretend I’m using Windows.
In my experience, Linux has been superior for older games because proton (the compatibility layer that makes windows game work on Linux) has a ton of old windows components packed in that are broken on modern windows.
The main issue people have these days are with newer multiplayer games and anti-cheat not playing nice with proton.
Modding can also be a bit of a hurdle if you’re into that sort of thing, but with a bit of work it’s doable.
Most MMOs should be fine. Off the top of my head the games that don’t work because of anti cheat are Destiny, CoD, and the Riot games (League and Valorant)
Dawn of war works great for me, ive also managed to play space marine one and two, (granted one is a bit of a pain in the ass to get working) ive also gotten Gothic armada 2 and gladius to run. As far as I remember the only one that didn’t work out of the box was space marine 1 and that’s because of some stupid DRM that’s been put on it. I’m on Pop!OS for reference.
not only can i install steam i can run almost any game marked windows only
I’ve gotten to the point where I just assume that the game will work with proton. I’ll check protondb if it’s an expensive game but other than that I just pretend I’m using Windows.
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In my experience, Linux has been superior for older games because proton (the compatibility layer that makes windows game work on Linux) has a ton of old windows components packed in that are broken on modern windows.
The main issue people have these days are with newer multiplayer games and anti-cheat not playing nice with proton.
Modding can also be a bit of a hurdle if you’re into that sort of thing, but with a bit of work it’s doable.
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Most MMOs should be fine. Off the top of my head the games that don’t work because of anti cheat are Destiny, CoD, and the Riot games (League and Valorant)
not really an expert at warhammer but steam has done a lot of work in compatibility of games.
you can check protondb and lutris.net
The main hurdle is modern anti cheat. Many old games actually work better on Linux because of fans making dedicated tweaks.
Dawn of war works great for me, ive also managed to play space marine one and two, (granted one is a bit of a pain in the ass to get working) ive also gotten Gothic armada 2 and gladius to run. As far as I remember the only one that didn’t work out of the box was space marine 1 and that’s because of some stupid DRM that’s been put on it. I’m on Pop!OS for reference.
I can even run games that don’t work on modern Windows, like Fallout 3.
I’ve been meaning to try out the new version of React OS
It probably still won’t work well but it is cool that it is still a work in progress.