• highseas@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    1 year ago

    It’s as good as any other distro, in to say pretty good. There are some cracks that just refuse to work in Linux, but most are pretty easy to get going.

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    I’ve been incentivised not to, because Steam + Proton work so well.

    Probably worth downloading some backups and getting them running though, in case Steam decides to rug pull

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      1 year ago

      Same here. Haven’t even thought about pirating games because Steam is just working.

      Seems to me that Spotify and Steam has been really successful preventing piracy in music and games, but the streaming movie industry has failed because they got greedy.

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        valve is a private company, so they don’t need to jerk off the shareholders, and they can invest in what they want

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        Yeah steam does it very well. On stuff like the switch, the prices are so crazy I immediately go hack my console. But in steam, prices were so much lower to the point in which I never thought about it.

        I only recently started doing it when I noticed some games block you from playing offline.

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      1 year ago

      proton makes things work so well… i just sit there at /c/paitientgamer … and i’m as filthy as they come

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      1 year ago

      I think we can trust steam until there is an acquisition or a change in hands of some kind. But better safe than sorry!

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          1 year ago

          To be fair, if you already bought the game then you’re fine, but the only way to play Riddick now is to pirate it.

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            1 year ago

            This is true. Any game that you already have is still playable even after it’s pulled from the store for whatever reason. You can even uninstall it and reinstall it from your library to your computer when ever you want. I have a couple games no longer available and never had a problem.

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              1 year ago

              You’ve obviously never played it. It was one of the best games on Xbox.

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                I admit, I didn’t, but I thought the movie was so horrible that I couldn’t imagine how the game could possibly be better. Glad to hear they redeemed it a bit.

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      1 year ago

      i use steam+proton to run cracked steam games on my deck quite frequently actually. just gotta add em as non-steam games and tell em to use whichever proton version

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    1 year ago

    I run arch exclusively and find gaming to be pretty seamless and enjoyable, but it does require some config. This is mostly because arch makes no assumptions so dependencies installed by default on other systems are likely not present unless you installed them.

    I suggest running Lutris since it handles wine prefixes. Wine prefixes essentially do the work of keeping your individual game installs compartmentalized so each game has all the required dependencies to run properly.

    Regardless of whether you use Lutris, the maintainers of that software have good documentation on installing wine and its dependencies here. The guide has a section for Arch and is particularly helpful for ensuring you have all appropriate vulkan or nvidia drivers and driver dependencies installed.

    Best of luck if you decide to go down the arch path!

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    1 year ago

    Its great. I use lutris for my games and point the custom wine excutable to steam’s proton experimental

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      If anyone could answer these questions for me that would be 😎.

      I haven’t used lutris or wine/proto yet. Do you just sign into your steam account through lutris and it sets up the library automatically?

      Is steams proton installed with steam now? Or do I have to get that somewhere else?

      Why would I need to use lutris if the games are in steam big picture?

      I don’t really understand the wine and proton aspect in terms installing and using it.

      Edit: just realized this is about cracked games… For my post I am talking about steam store bought games.

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        Steam is available on most distro repo’s and even if it isn’t install it via flatpak and off you go

        once you’ve done that goto settings and steam play and there’s a option there something about “use proton for all unverified games” or something, I’m not at my pc to get the direct wording and then you’ll be able to install any game from your library and play it

        you can use protondb.com to check if games you want to play work on Linux with proton

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    It works fine. You’ll likely notice a slight decrease in performance and a lot of the time you’ll be using Windows versions of games instead of native Linux titles because that’s what’s available. Sometimes Lutris install scripts won’t play nice with pirated game installers so you might have to look at the script and see what tweaks it uses.

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      Same, I tried lutris but it just wasn’t working consistently. Bottles is both easier and consistent for me.

      Lutris still got them scripts tho for specific needs.

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    I’m not on Arch, I’m on Gentoo, but I’m using Flatpak, so this should apply to you too.

    Just get Bottles.

    I’ve tried it on:

    • Assassin’s Creed 1
    • Assassin’s Creed 2
    • Nier Automata
    • Nier Replicant
    • Crash Bandicoot
    • Dishonored

    … and probably some other titles I can’t recall on top of my head.

    The gotcha is that you may have to install the right library dependencies (e.g. DVDX, .NET, Mono, Redistributable C++, probably fonts), which can be done on the Bottles.