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Linux users: Are we over-reliant on Steam? (beehaw.org)

submitted 2 days ago by slauraure@beehaw.org to c/gaming@beehaw.org

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I’ve recently moved my whole game library over to Linux and stopped dual booting. Everything runs great on Linux, I just run it through Steam’s Proton layer.

Therein lies the problem. Even my non-Steam games I run through Steam since it’s so convenient with Proton. My experience with using straight up wine, winetricks, Lutris etc. had been much more clunky in comparison and less reliable for getting things running.

While it’s working fine for now, what do I do if I’m offline and Steam decides this is one of those days offline mode doesn’t work? What if I get banned from Steam?

Has anyone had any luck replicating their Proton setup outside of Steam? Or simply just running a Proton game outside of Steam after getting it set up using Steam?

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[–] Toes@ani.social 23 points 2 days ago (2 children)

You should be able to select "GE-Proton(Latest)" as your runner in Lutris. But if its missing for some reason, https://github.com/gloriouseggroll/proton-ge-custom

I haven’t noticed any major issues between using Lutris and Steam for the games I play.

[–] henfredemars@infosec.pub 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Lutris is definitely the strongest contender, and is mostly based on the same compatibility technology.

[–] entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Meh, I like Heroic better personally. It's a preference thing at this point between the two of em IMO

[–] SweetCitrusBuzz@beehaw.org 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Yeah, Heroic is good but sadly it only supports gog and epic. Not everything is from those stores, sadly. Whereas Lutris supports a lot more sources.

[–] entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It supports GoG, Epic, and Amazon, but it also supports installing games manually, which has worked for literally everything else for me so far.

I used to use Lutris, but in the last year or so Heroic got so good I stopped ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[–] SweetCitrusBuzz@beehaw.org 2 points 1 day ago

Ah, okay, thanks for the correction!

[–] slauraure@beehaw.org 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Yeah, it’s been at least five years since I tried Lutris last time. It’s probably matured alongside Proton. Honestly I started moving all my non-Linux games over to Linux after getting a Steam deck and seeing how well the games worked without tinkering.

I don’t mind leaving my Steam games in Steam but I would like to run some of my Windows titles e.g. GOG titles, Guild Wars without relying on the Steam network being up. Is Heroic the way to go?

[–] swab148@startrek.website 3 points 1 day ago

If Heroic doesn't work, Bottles is usually my go-to for GOG games.