I’ve made the jump to Mint for my gaming PC. I work primarily on Ubuntu systems (cli, no gui) so it was a pretty simple choice. I installed GE proton, which fixed the lobby audio bug in phasmophobia, is there any reason I shouldn’t just use that version of proton for all steam games?
One other question, evolution looks pretty solid for mail, any reason I should look elsewhere?
Some proton versions are compatible with some games, or some versions of games. Use whatever works, but generally, the newer the Proton version, the better performance you’ll get out of a game. Check for compatibility notes and tricks per game here: https://www.protondb.com/
Evolution is fine. Thunderbird is fine. There’s a bunch of others as well. Use whatever you like!
I installed GE proton, which fixed the lobby audio bug in phasmophobia, is there any reason I shouldn’t just use that version of proton for all steam games?
Typically if you install a specific version to fix a specific bug, that version will be static (to maintain the bugfix) and may not get future Proton updates rolled into it (unless someone is actively maintaining that special version).
It’s best to stick with the default Proton version (which should be the latest stable build) except when you need to fix a specific problem, and assign specific fix versions only for the game/application that requires it.
proton ge is actively maintained: https://github.com/GloriousEggroll/proton-ge-custom - same guy that maintains nobara linux.
it’s essentially proton experimental with extra patches and more up to date dxvk etc etc. While it is the bleeding edge of proton experimental, and all the other components, it’s pretty stable in my experience. But as always: experimenting with different proton versions is key, what works - works.
Ooh, that’s nice, I might have to try that myself.
Is it just one guy’s project though? that kind of thing worries me in an xkcd #2347 kind of way.
Is it just one guy’s project though? that kind of thing worries me in an xkcd #2347 kind of way.
honestly I don’t know. That’s a fair point, though I don’t really consider proton-ge to be mission critical by any means.
It is mostly just the one guy. But afaik a lot of the maintenance involved is just bumping versions up to the latest version, which besides testing shouldn’t really take much work.
I think he also sometimes adds his own patches for games, which would be a lot more work for one person of course. But this doesn’t happen every release.
Evolution is a fine mail client, but I’m not too sure if it’s being actively developed much. Not many distros ship it out of the box.
If it works, it’s fine to use GE builds, but generally I just leave it on the default for Steam and only change it if I have a problem.
The reason is, different proton builds work better or worse for different games depending on the optimizations in that particular build and game. GE is pretty solid all around, but with some older games you may need to roll back or go to experimental for some others
I liked the UI of Evolution when I used it, but there were some usability issues which made me switch to Thunderbird in the end. There’s a good extension in Thunderbird for markdown support when composing emails, which I could not use on Evolution. And Evolution failed to attach .eml files when I tried that (as opposed to including previous emails inline). But if your email use case is very basic, it should be fine.
I like Evolution too
