It’s as good as any other distro, in to say pretty good. There are some cracks that just refuse to work in Linux, but most are pretty easy to get going.
I’ve been incentivised not to, because Steam + Proton work so well.
Probably worth downloading some backups and getting them running though, in case Steam decides to rug pull
Same here. Haven’t even thought about pirating games because Steam is just working.
Seems to me that Spotify and Steam has been really successful preventing piracy in music and games, but the streaming movie industry has failed because they got greedy.
valve is a private company, so they don’t need to jerk off the shareholders, and they can invest in what they want
proton makes things work so well… i just sit there at /c/paitientgamer … and i’m as filthy as they come
I think we can trust steam until there is an acquisition or a change in hands of some kind. But better safe than sorry!
To be fair, if you already bought the game then you’re fine, but the only way to play Riddick now is to pirate it.
This is true. Any game that you already have is still playable even after it’s pulled from the store for whatever reason. You can even uninstall it and reinstall it from your library to your computer when ever you want. I have a couple games no longer available and never had a problem.
The real question is why would anyone want to play Riddick.
It’s really good dude. Violent, tons of swearing, great graphics, stealth and action.
You’ve obviously never played it. It was one of the best games on Xbox.
Couldn’t you just keep your games and use a Steam emulator?
Is that a thing?
Sure is. If you want examples search Fit-Girl’s (or your favorite repacker’s) website for the term Goldberg. If you want to know more you can find their GitLab page pretty easy.
I don’t think it’s completely flawless but it seems to be pretty commonly used.
i use steam+proton to run cracked steam games on my deck quite frequently actually. just gotta add em as non-steam games and tell em to use whichever proton version
I run arch exclusively and find gaming to be pretty seamless and enjoyable, but it does require some config. This is mostly because arch makes no assumptions so dependencies installed by default on other systems are likely not present unless you installed them.
I suggest running Lutris since it handles wine prefixes. Wine prefixes essentially do the work of keeping your individual game installs compartmentalized so each game has all the required dependencies to run properly.
Regardless of whether you use Lutris, the maintainers of that software have good documentation on installing wine and its dependencies here. The guide has a section for Arch and is particularly helpful for ensuring you have all appropriate vulkan or nvidia drivers and driver dependencies installed.
Best of luck if you decide to go down the arch path!
It works fine. You’ll likely notice a slight decrease in performance and a lot of the time you’ll be using Windows versions of games instead of native Linux titles because that’s what’s available. Sometimes Lutris install scripts won’t play nice with pirated game installers so you might have to look at the script and see what tweaks it uses.
Protonup+lutris
Or if you have a lot of ram, heroic launcher
I’m not on Arch, I’m on Gentoo, but I’m using Flatpak, so this should apply to you too.
Just get Bottles.
I’ve tried it on:
- Assassin’s Creed 1
- Assassin’s Creed 2
- Nier Automata
- Nier Replicant
- Crash Bandicoot
- Dishonored
… and probably some other titles I can’t recall on top of my head.
The gotcha is that you may have to install the right library dependencies (e.g. DVDX, .NET, Mono, Redistributable C++, probably fonts), which can be done on the Bottles.
I use Bottles for most stuff, and everything works smoothly.
