Im just kicking the breeze but it does seem like a lot of people are secretly ( not so secretly ) wanting to switch to Linux. Certainly more than even when windows 8 arrived, 10 seems to have royally pissed a lot of people off.
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That’s a good thing! I have seen so many linux users around me hoping to get a compatibility layer.
Would be extra interesting if they also supported it by using the “add non-steam game to my library” option.
90% of my games are from steam. I can get Photoshop/Premiere Pro/Etc to work with WINE.
They do this, I stop using Windows indefinitely.
You have NO IDEA.
My gaming keyboard and meteor microphone, as well as a slew of personalized settings, get borked EVERY SINGLE TIME Win10 has an update. EVERY TIME. Minimum 1hour of bullshit to fix things after waiting on the update to finish. This is just 1 of many issues.
Edit: last update screwed up Window’s interaction with Discord. My mic didn’t work for 2 weeks and no troubleshooting steps could figure anything out. I just randomly solved the issue by mass-resetting a lot of stuff and then putting the settings back to where I wanted them.
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Looks like Valve just confirmed that this is happening…
Valve has their own fork of Wine and it is called PROTON.
Quote:
as a result of this work, today we are releasing the Beta of a new and improved version of Steam Play to all Linux users! It includes a modified distribution of Wine, called Proton, to provide compatibility with Windows game titles. Here are some of the improvements it brings to the table:
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Soooo. What’s going to happen to wine now? With Proton, is wine still going to be a thing?
Yeah, of course Wine will still be a thing. It’s not going anywhere. Wine is used for more than just gaming. Proton is Valves own fork that will be built into SteamOS and the Linux client of Steam.
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Looks like your in luck
yes i know that is only three posts up lol
I forgot wine was for more then just gaming. lol. My bad.
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Ah well, it’s exciting news anyway!
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I just turned it on. It’s now giving me the option of installing all my Windows games, even Fallout 4. Don’t know if they work or not.
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Be our guinea pig!
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Lol. Alright. Downloading Sniper Elite 3 now, at 92MB’s 2 minutes left
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You da real MVP.
Don’t mind if i do.
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Sniper Elite 3 Installs and launches, but I’m getting a Microsoft Visual C++ Runtime Error.
Installing Payday: The Heist, which is on the whitelist, so it should work.
Payday Works! Now downloading Batman: Arkham Asylum
Batman doesn’t launch 
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excuse my ignorance but i have payday native on Linux already… or is that payday2 i forget.
Payday 2 is native. I have that too.
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Wonder if it is worth starting a dedicated Proton Linux thread for compatible games, so we can start testing en mass ?
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