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    Who played on linux before proton? (lemmy.world)
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    [–] Limonene@lemmy.world 5 points 8 months ago

    I never got Proton working on my main distro (Debian), so I probably fall into this category. I did use Wine, but Wine is a lot harder to set up, and never ran games as well as Proton did.

    Here is my major gaming history, since I started on Linux in 2007. Yes, I really could focus on a single game for years back then.

    • 2007: Starcraft, in Wine
    • 2007: Nethack, native
    • 2011: Morrowind and Oblivion in Wine
    • 2012: Minecraft, native
    • 2014: sgt-puzzles, native
    • 2016: Steam, got hundreds of native Linux games.
    • 2017: Briefly got Steam and Path of Exile working inside a Wine instance.
    • 2022: Steam deck, with the specific purpose of being able to run Proton on it.
    • 2023: New Ubuntu installation, and Proton finally worked on my PC.

    Today, I still prefer native Linux games. I mostly only use Proton when peer pressure for a multiplayer game required it. But I never use Wine any more.