Idk about that. I put Linux on a second drive in my main PC a couple months ago and tried a handful of games, I don’t think I got any of them to work.
I know I tried baldurs gate 3, The Forest, and I think Satisfactory.
I’m sure that someone is going to call me an idiot for not being able to figure it out, but the point of the parent comment was that Proton is “really good now”, implying it shouldn’t be a headache, and if it takes more than 5 minutes for a game to simply launch that’s exactly what it is.
Make sure Proton is installed on the same drive the game is installed. I’ve never had a problem with ANY game I’ve attempted so long as that was true, and I’ve played BG3 and Satisfactory both on my Mint partition so I know those work.
If you’re running the game from a different drive then you have to get into symlinking and that gets complex. But if you make sure they’re on the same drive it should just work.
Proton is incompatible with the NTFS file system because NTFS lacks essential features Proton uses. Steam will try to stop you from running an NTFS game with Proton, and if you get it working anyway, you’ll corrupt your game data.
I see. Frustrating that I don’t recall the program giving any kind of warning or message that what I was trying simply would not work. I guess this is something a “real” Linux user would know.
No, you’re right to be frustrated. The support materials don’t explain it clearly at all, and finding out why NTFS isn’t supported is an ordeal. Steam should totally throw up an error message that explains the problem.
Drag prefers Linux because on Linux it’s actually possible to do everything right and have a perfect experience. It isn’t easy, it takes a lot of know-how and it’s best to be active on a support forum. But you can theoretically get it working perfectly. Windows? Not so much. Microsoft can decide to break your install basically whenever they want. Your knowledge isn’t an absolute factor, sometimes doing what you want is just impossible.
I do believe you but it’s getting to the point that it’s the same or not as cumbersome as Windows.
Of course, you already have Windows and you are used to the nuances so you stay with it. But the nuances are still there, you can’t do anything about them and there are more every year.
For me, the worst part is that you (and I) paid for it, and if you go an complain they tell you to eat dicks. So, I switched long time ago but dual booted for gaming until Proton became a thing.
If you need help setting your games, hit me/us the community up we will help.
This isn’t really about the user getting used to nuances, it’s about the games getting used to them. People complain when a game doesn’t work instantaneously on Windows too.
Plus, going off the latest Steam survey, people mostly play their own weird and obscure games with only some hundreds of players. So much of the time, searching for game support is not going to give any results because they might be the only Linux player.
That’s not even getting into how much setup annoyance there is if one of your choice games isn’t on Steam.
Idk about that. I put Linux on a second drive in my main PC a couple months ago and tried a handful of games, I don’t think I got any of them to work.
I know I tried baldurs gate 3, The Forest, and I think Satisfactory.
I’m sure that someone is going to call me an idiot for not being able to figure it out, but the point of the parent comment was that Proton is “really good now”, implying it shouldn’t be a headache, and if it takes more than 5 minutes for a game to simply launch that’s exactly what it is.
Make sure Proton is installed on the same drive the game is installed. I’ve never had a problem with ANY game I’ve attempted so long as that was true, and I’ve played BG3 and Satisfactory both on my Mint partition so I know those work.
If you’re running the game from a different drive then you have to get into symlinking and that gets complex. But if you make sure they’re on the same drive it should just work.
That might’ve been the issue, I have an SSD with all my games/programs installed and another SSD with my OSes, Proton is probably on the OS SSD.
Proton is incompatible with the NTFS file system because NTFS lacks essential features Proton uses. Steam will try to stop you from running an NTFS game with Proton, and if you get it working anyway, you’ll corrupt your game data.
I see. Frustrating that I don’t recall the program giving any kind of warning or message that what I was trying simply would not work. I guess this is something a “real” Linux user would know.
No, you’re right to be frustrated. The support materials don’t explain it clearly at all, and finding out why NTFS isn’t supported is an ordeal. Steam should totally throw up an error message that explains the problem.
Drag prefers Linux because on Linux it’s actually possible to do everything right and have a perfect experience. It isn’t easy, it takes a lot of know-how and it’s best to be active on a support forum. But you can theoretically get it working perfectly. Windows? Not so much. Microsoft can decide to break your install basically whenever they want. Your knowledge isn’t an absolute factor, sometimes doing what you want is just impossible.
See, the problem was not linuxing hard enough
I do believe you but it’s getting to the point that it’s the same or not as cumbersome as Windows.
Of course, you already have Windows and you are used to the nuances so you stay with it. But the nuances are still there, you can’t do anything about them and there are more every year.
For me, the worst part is that you (and I) paid for it, and if you go an complain they tell you to eat dicks. So, I switched long time ago but dual booted for gaming until Proton became a thing.
If you need help setting your games, hit me/us the community up we will help.
This isn’t really about the user getting used to nuances, it’s about the games getting used to them. People complain when a game doesn’t work instantaneously on Windows too.
Plus, going off the latest Steam survey, people mostly play their own weird and obscure games with only some hundreds of players. So much of the time, searching for game support is not going to give any results because they might be the only Linux player.
That’s not even getting into how much setup annoyance there is if one of your choice games isn’t on Steam.