I’ve been blown away by being able to finally, at long last, game on my linux machine. Between emulators and Steam’s Proton, I’m rarely if every needing to boot into W$ just for games. That said,while I can play the gamepass web streaming thing, I don’t know if there is a way to use gamepass locally with Proton. Is that possible?

  • B1S0N
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    102 years ago

    It is currently not possible. Games installed through GamePass have some kind of Windows compatibility layer which cannot be run by any wine or proton versions. At least not yet.

    • @Protegee9850OP
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      22 years ago

      Dang. Thanks! I’m assuming for eg Steamdeck folks are installing windows for game pass?

      • B1S0N
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        82 years ago

        Yep, for steamdeck your options are to install windows or to stream. Greenlight is a good linux application that handles the streaming better than the website imo. It can also do remote play if you have an Xbox, which generally has much lower input latency.

      • @vividspecter
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        12 years ago

        Some might be using the cloud based game pass, although I haven’t tried it myself.

        • @Protegee9850OP
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          12 years ago

          Yeah that works pretty well; but doesn’t solve the issue of needing/preferring a local install.

          • @vividspecter
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            12 years ago

            For sure. I can tell you it’s a very long way off, if ever, unless Microsoft step in and port it themselves.

    • @angrymouse
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      12 years ago

      To get some idea, even on windows if you have your time wrong you cannot open some games and others will work with partial support so, this will never be a thing.