Celebrating 6 years since Valve announced Steam Play Proton for Linux

Re:Celebrating 6 years since Valve announced Steam Play Prot... by Asmod4n on Thursday August 22, 2024 @07:39AM (#41319110)

The situation outside steam is sadly still pretty bad.

Imagine you buy most of your games on DRM free platforms and they hardly even install on any gaming focused distribution.

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Re:Celebrating 6 years since Valve announced Steam Play Prot... by boudin on Thursday August 22, 2024 @08:13AM (#41319383)

I find heroic quite nice for gog and egs games.

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Re:Celebrating 6 years since Valve announced Steam Play Prot... by MisterTea on Thursday August 22, 2024 @08:05AM (#41319309)

I wonder if there is a chance Valve could release a standalone proton wrapper for such situations. Then We could install and run these DRM free games or even games you legally purchased years ago and still own.

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Re:Celebrating 6 years since Valve announced Steam Play Prot... by ftk_ on Thursday August 22, 2024 @09:45AM (#41320205)

There are now third party launchers for proton, such as: https://github.com/Open-Wine-Components/umu-launcher

As well as "game libraries": Lutris, Bottles, Heroic

Personally I use this alias to launch an exe via proton:

  alias proton='SteamGameId="${SteamGameId-1000}" PROTON_USE_WINESYNC=1 STEAM_COMPAT_CLIENT_INSTALL_PATH="$PWD" STEAM_COMPAT_DATA_PATH=$HOME/proton /usr/share/steam/compatibilitytools.d/proton-cachyos/proton waitforexitandrun'
  # cd /gamepath
  # proton Game.exe

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