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    Who played on linux before proton? (lemmy.world)
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    [–] TheFrogThatFlies 5 points 7 months ago

    I was in the beta for the original World of Warcraft and restarted when it officially launched. This was 20 years ago, so memory is fuzzy, but somewhere along the way I was playing it in wine exclusively under Linux. Game updates were common and frequently broke wine, but I kid you not a patch was available within 24h. Yes, this forced me to compile my own wine, but it wasn't that difficult then. Together with "checkinstall" I could maintain a clean .deb package from the source code.

    Some links I found in a quick search showing the challenges:

    To be honest, keeping the game running in Linux sometimes felt as a fun side quest!

    After that I was mostly able to play all my games in Linux, with some exceptions, obviously, that sometimes required me to install windows.