With Proton and Steam Play, many Windows games now work on Linux

Re:With Proton and Steam Play, many Windows games now work o... by CivBase on Tuesday December 08, 2020 @09:45AM (#25345769)

Seems to me like there should be something like a "Docker for games" which uses container tech to create a lightweight, predictable execution environment for video games.

I suppose that's kind of what Proton does, although it focuses on emulating a Windows environment in particular.

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Re:With Proton and Steam Play, many Windows games now work o... by e2le on Tuesday December 08, 2020 @10:24AM (#25346362)

Sounds like something that AppImage is perfectly suited for, given that each application is a one-click executable with automatic updating built-in and can optionally provide a predictable execution environment although it's not a container.

In one particular case, I packaged up Mirrors Edge into an AppImage with the AppRun script taking care to setup the environment and WINE. It worked surprisingly well.

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Re:With Proton and Steam Play, many Windows games now work o... by CivBase on Tuesday December 08, 2020 @10:40AM (#25346637)

That's awesome!

If anyone at Valve is reading, I think this would be an excellent feature for Proton or the Steam client.

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Re:With Proton and Steam Play, many Windows games now work o... by gen3 on Tuesday December 08, 2020 @11:41AM (#25347652)

They already have something like that. The steam runtime has been in development since at least 2013 now.

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Re:With Proton and Steam Play, many Windows games now work o... by b0rsuk on Tuesday December 08, 2020 @11:28AM (#25347433)

In all honesty, I ran Riven through wine, and Proton is a wrapper around wine and some other tools to cover the rough edges.

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