Re:It‘s been 9 years since Valve rolled out the Steam Linux ...
by gpderetta on Saturday November 06, 2021 @11:51AM
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Yesterday my son wanted to play Overlord II that I had purchased ages ago. It has a native linux version, and I remember 3-4 years and a few distro/steam updates ago it worked fine. Yesterday it would hang on startup. I didn't want to spend an evening debugging it, so I flipped the proton override on steam. After a quick reinstall, it worked immediately and flawlessly.
So, I don't care whether a game is native [1] or run on an emulation layer as long as it works and performs reasonably well and, most importantly, it is supported.
[1] the reality of course is that many, but not all, native ports still run on some sort of buggy, proprietary translation layer.
So, I don't care whether a game is native [1] or run on an emulation layer as long as it works and performs reasonably well and, most importantly, it is supported.
[1] the reality of course is that many, but not all, native ports still run on some sort of buggy, proprietary translation layer.