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There's still room for improvement, but Linux gaming has come a long way in a short time. (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I remember when Proton launched it was like magic playing games like Doom and Nier Automata straight from the Linux Steam client with excellent performance. I do not miss the days of having the Windows version of Steam installed separately.

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[+] [email protected] -28 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

lol i was playing WoW on wine when most people here were in the fecal exchange phase

please tell me how valve saved gaming

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

lol i was playing WoW on wine when most people here were in the fecal exchange phase

Then just like me you can remember how much harder it used to be.

please tell me how valve saved gaming

No need to be a snarky dick you know.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

Congratulations, you played the only Windows game that consistently scored Platinum rankings on Wine's AppDB in the mid to late 2000's.

If you went past the tedious install process and didn't mind the lack of Vsync on OpenGL, WoW ran like a dream on Linux and could actually pull higher framerates than on Windows.

Valve definitely deserve credit. No other games publisher has contributed as much to the Linux gaming community as them, and they did it because they perceived Microsoft as an existential threat to their storefront.