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[–] poopkins@lemmy.world 1 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

I've never tried Proton, but I've gone down a rabbit hole of trying to use Wine for running games a few years back. I'll look into Proton, thanks for the suggestion.

[–] Revan343@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 hour ago

If you bought the game through Steam, using Proton is often as simple as installing it and hitting play. If you're curious about specific games, search them on ProtonDB

[–] Faildini@lemmy.world 5 points 19 hours ago

Yeah Proton is definitely the way to go over using Wine directly. Valve has put a ton of work into making it seamless. I have a large steam library and have found literally only one game (Destiny 2) that doesn't work. And that's just because Bungie has gone out of their way to make sure it won't run on Linux for "anti cheating" reasons.