I am buying a friend’s PC for games. I want to avoid windows if at all possible, and I’m wondering what people’s experience using Proton in Linux for gaming has been. Are there certain publishers who use libraries Proton doesn’t handle well? Are there distros to avoid using with proton? Any other notes I should be aware of?

  • @[email protected]
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    311 year ago

    The main issue nowadays is anticheat. If you play esports (league of legends,apex legend, fortnite), you will have trouble. Pretty much everything else will be good to go.

    • laenurd
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      71 year ago

      Apex works flawlessly, without having to do any manual tweaking.

      Afaik there is a patched wine version that still lets you play LoL, but with Fortnite you’re sol.

    • @[email protected]
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      51 year ago

      As others have mentioned, the main caveat here is that anti cheat games can work if the developers enable the support.

      I’ve been playing dead by daylight very happily for a good few months now on Linux. Apex legends has also got official support for Linux as well.