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Nearly half of Steam's users are still using Windows 10, with end of life fast approaching (www.pcguide.com)
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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Did you install Steam for Windows in Linux or Steam as a flatpak or something? My experience on many PCs is install Linux, install Steam from the distro's repo, flip the compatibility switch in Steam settings, and only customize bits here and there because I'm busy gaming or doing work.

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

This has nothing to do with steam (as much as you can separate the two). Even through Lutris it Proton work. Even plain wine was janky but technically worked.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Huh. Yeah, proton is from Valve... it's not difficult to get proton-ge from Glorious Eggroll in the mix for some finicky games. I don't try to put non-Steam games in Steam because Lutris is good at getting everything the game might need. It's not Valve's or a Linux OS's fault if Windows games can't package everything the game actually needs to run with the damn game. Yeah, yeah, people just want the software to work... For Windows software, that means automatically downloading shit from all over the place and Wine/proton needs to have all that software set up in a workable fashion. It's like having a bubble of chaos properly contained within the order of Linux but letting in what the bubble needs.

I saw antialiased text in Wine for the first time the other day, that was exciting. 😂