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[–] [email protected] 65 points 7 months ago (1 children)

You can use Steam’s proton even on non Steam games. It might work better than wine.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Thanks for the tip!

[–] [email protected] 12 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

further, heroic games launcher isn't just for epic and gog games, you can install any exe. i use it for the ea games launcher because the lutris script was broken at the time. and in the wine manager in hgl settings you can choose either wine-ge latest or proton-ge latest (or whatever number version) as your default layer, which you can also change per game/app if you have trouble.

edit: and also you can set it to add to steam so you can still just use steam as your main launcher, for example on steam deck or using a media center rig in big picture mode.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

Thanks!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Also to add, it's not just for games but any application. Games are just the primary focus.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

Yup, that's something I never realized until now.