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    [–] baatliwala 5 points 23 hours ago (5 children)

    I'd love to move to Linux but I play some old ass games that I've no idea if they'll work. I missed out a lot of games since my PC was pure ass and it's just something I like doing.

    For eg I want to play OG Deus Ex (never done before), and do a replay of Morrowind with fancy mods. I also recently replayed Splinter Cell because I felt like it.

    [–] Lorgres 6 points 21 hours ago

    I've played Deus Ex (and the revision mod) and Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory on Linux without issue. If you're playing steam games it's basically just install and play. Especially for old games.

    There's a website called protondb.com you can check for compatibility. Gaming on Linux is so good now though, I don't even check anymore before buying games.

    Word of warning though. While modding games running through wine/proton is possible, mod managers don't usually work or are tedious to set up. I don't mod too much so I usually just manually install or stick with steam workshop mods.

    [–] [email protected] 7 points 23 hours ago

    old games typically work better on linux than on modern windows versions

    [–] nul9o9 2 points 22 hours ago

    Should really check out open mw.

    [–] nyamlae 1 points 22 hours ago

    I play Morrowind on Linux all the time, running OpenMW (bought from GOG) on Lutris.

    [–] woelkchen 0 points 20 hours ago

    ProtonDB is known well enough at this point, you can be expected to look up these games yourself.