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Re:Developing Games on Linux: An Interview with Little Red D... by stingraycharles on Thursday June 24, 2021 @02:47PM (#27622143)
As a Linux gamer, I’d say: just make sure the Proton version works, focus on fixing glitches there, don’t bother spending time on porting any code otherwise.

Pretty much all games I play are through Steam’s compatibility layer anyway, and nowadays it’s a very smooth experience.

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Re:Developing Games on Linux: An Interview with Little Red D... by A4ET8a8uTh0 on Thursday June 24, 2021 @03:51PM (#27622959)
I agree. The few times I can't run it via Proton ( Fallout 4, FF11 come to mind ) I jump on Windows VM anyway. It is absolutely bananas how powerful hardware is these days.
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Re:Developing Games on Linux: An Interview with Little Red D... by Cloudef on Thursday June 24, 2021 @09:59PM (#27626358)
FF11 works fine with proton for me
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Re:Developing Games on Linux: An Interview with Little Red D... by darthrupert on Thursday June 24, 2021 @03:18PM (#27622583)
> Make sure the Proton version works

On which distro and graphics hardware? ;)

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Re:Developing Games on Linux: An Interview with Little Red D... by stingraycharles on Thursday June 24, 2021 @03:31PM (#27622714)
Good one. I’d say, take either Steam or Lutris or something like that, so that the distro is abstracted away as much as possible.

I’m not a game dev so I don’t know how much you still actually notice of the distro / hardware once you’re running in Proton or Wine.

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Re:Developing Games on Linux: An Interview with Little Red D... by Cloudef on Thursday June 24, 2021 @10:01PM (#27626372)
Flatpak version of steam would be good candidate as anyone can install it on any distro (even non-glibc based ones)
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Re:Developing Games on Linux: An Interview with Little Red D... by darthrupert on Thursday June 24, 2021 @05:06PM (#27623762)
You do. You totally do.
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