Turre<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mementomori.social/@rolle" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>rolle</span></a></span> I had this revelation about ... I think four years ago, when I suddenly realized Skyrim works out of the box on Linux Steam, and not just works but runs perfectly, and at least as fast. It never crashed a lot for me on Windows either, but it has never done it on Linux. And when you take away the PITA of rebooting to Windows and suffering through hours of upgrade churn and reboots and all just to play a game on a rainy day, I rediscovered my long lost love for gaming again.</p><p>GTA 5 also worked just fine when I tried it, but I didn't care for it enough for a proper replay. And incredibly, so did BG3 and Cyberpunk 2077. On a 14 year old desktop PC that is way underspecced for either. These two push the display adapter hard enough that it reveals some thermal management issues in the driver/hardware, I need to force it to stay out of the high power states to prevent occasional crashes. Mildly annoying but far, far less so than rebooting to Windows to play a game. </p><p>Valve has done an *incredible* job on improving the Linux gaming experience, not just on packaging all the wacko Wine tricks for running games neatly out of sight and mind in Steam, but also general infrastructure work in the kernel, vulkan and whatnot.</p><p><a href="https://mementomori.social/tags/valve" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>valve</span></a> <a href="https://mementomori.social/tags/proton" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>proton</span></a> <a href="https://mementomori.social/tags/steam" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>steam</span></a> <a href="https://mementomori.social/tags/linuxgaming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>linuxgaming</span></a></p>