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  • Scio@kbin.socialtoLinux Gaming@lemmy.world•GE-Proton8-31 Released
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    5 months ago

    Tl;Dr: Proton GE has extra game specific performance and compatibility patches that Proton doesn’t target for whatever reason.

    Too long but I typed it out so might as well post it anyway: This is how I understand it goes like—

    Now, we know Proton: a Valve-maintained fork of the venerable Wine project with many many gaming and game specific patches, made for Steam.

    Proton can be used outside of Steam, of course, but it isn’t really designed to be, there be quirks. Plus, Valve maintains what goes into Proton, so if anyone really wants to play a certain Windows game that doesn’t quite run well enough on Proton and put in the work needed to make the necessary changes, it’s probably not getting added to Proton just yet (I frankly don’t know how or whether Valve accepts PRs at all). And Wine does not really want game specific patches in the runtime. Wine wants to be as generally compatible as possible.

    That’s why most Proton variants exist. A certain Glorious Eggroll maintains this one, which has quite a few patches for games that aren’t targeted by Proton either at all or well enough, as well as making sure it can run outside of Steam (there are other variants of the patches for vanilla Wine or for use in Lutris as well, I think?)

  • Scio@kbin.socialtoLinux Gaming@lemmy.world•Beelink or Steam Deck for work/gaming on RV?
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    5 months ago

    I’ve been using a Steam Deck as my only PC for almost a year now, for work (graphics design, web dev, illustration, some Blender) as well as play ofc. Aside from my suboptimal dock options (Valve doesn’t sell any hardware in my market) It’s been a very smooth experience, and I’ve not even had to disable immutability at any point.

    I would like to support the point that Game Mode is one of the most important features the Deck has, and losing out on it by installing Ubuntu feels like a loss.

    But I would also like to note that Steam OS now has Distrobox built in: for most use-cases you can just set up all the software you need inside an Ubuntu container without much hassle.

    Ultimately though, the form factor is the main difference. If I only needed to keep it docked all the time a Deck would not make much sense. But I love shifting to my bed after a workday and playing anything and everything I would have needed to sit at a desk to do before!