I barely even check protondb anymore. I just assume everything works these days it’s awesome.
Truly it is a golden age of Linux gaming.
Yup, the only game that I never got to work was Vermintide 2, and that was because of Fatshark and not Proton.
I play a lot of these games. Is this the kick I need to switch off Windows? That and the endless self promoting from Microsoft.
Do it! I just did and I’m loving it.
I’ve been using Raspbian and Lakka on some SBCs. But I’m not sure what distros to take the plunge with on my desktop running Intel 9th Gen and 2080 ti.
I’m really liking Pop!_OS, but I am far from an expert. Big draw to me is that is very unWIndowslike as far as UI go. And the auto tiling is slick, but you can implement that on pretty much any distro I believe. I tried EndeavourOS as well, but since it’s Arch based it was a bit too different than what I’m used to. I have two VPS running Ubuntu 20.04 LTS and since Pop is Ubuntu based it was more familiar. Pop also has a Nvidia specific image.
The new Debian-based Mint looks neat as well, but for now I’m very content with Pop.
If you’re using Raspbian, any of the Debian family will suit you.
Ubuntu is still an excellent choice, despite the hipster hate. It comes in many flavours.
Vanilla Debian is absolutely fine for Steam-based gaming.
Pop!_OS, Mint & Zorin all have big followings. There’s also MX.
Take your pick, really.
Yes
Nothing unique about the release, proton gets better and better. There are some games however that will likely never work, because their studio or developer blocks it. Most of these are competitive shooters. As long as you are OK not playing these, any time is a good time.
How well does proton work on Nvidia GPUs now days?
I’m really tried of windows as a whole and would like to get away from that ecosystem. There’s really nothing keeping me there other than I’ve been told gaming on Nvidia is still way behind, but that might have changed
To simplify what’s been said already, if your nvidia card is working on Linux in your system, it will work fine with Proton.
From what Ive heard the issues with Nvidia on linux are less about proton not working and more about the closed source drivers being a little more effort to install, and causing issues with more bleeding edge and rolling distros because nvidia drags its feet on supporting the newer features and standards. Plenty of people use Nvidia on linux and it does come with benefits as well such as better video decoding and encoding, better work drivers, and since its not foss they can just support HDMI 2.1’s closed nonsense without having to worry about stepping on toes.
I dont use Nvidia so I cant say for sure but I feel like the solution to the typical “oh no I ran an update and everything is broken!” is to just use a stable/lts distro.
I have an Nvidia 2060 Super with Pop_OS driver version 535.xx(?), and I haven’t run into a game proton doesn’t work with.
i have more choppiness on the desktop, booting takes longer, and a few more annoyances here and there.
gaming usually works well.
its not ideal and a few details are out of place but is perfectly usable. they have a better oss driver on the works too.
nothing but bad experience running an nvidia laptop though so be wary of that
NFS Heat is finally playable on my 6800 XT, so I’m very happy
CsGO 2 works better on linux than windows
