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I've been dual booting Ubuntu and Windows for a good few years now. I keep the windows around for gaming, because, ahem, I don't like giving EA, among others, money. I know it's not a problem to play most of the games I've paid for on Linux, but does anyone have experience with playing games on Linux that you've, somehow, obtained for free? And keeping them updated, too?

I'm still going to dual boot because keeping my games separate from my work is a decent adhd strategy for me, so I'm open to gaming friendly OS suggestions as well!

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[–] 474D 2 points 1 week ago (2 children)

LinuxRuleZ makes repacks specifically for this. Has worked well with both Linux mint on desktop and bazzite on steam deck

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You can add a non-steam game to steam and run it using proton, did it for one game that I couldn't make work on Lutris or Heroic.

Though for some reason you have to enable the compatibility for it even if you have set it up to use Proton automatically for all games

[–] 474D 1 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Yep, all "3rd party" games can integrate seamlessly with steam very easily. It even works great for steam decks console mode. emulated games too