I’ve recently moved my whole game library over to Linux and stopped dual booting. Everything runs great on Linux, I just run it through Steam’s Proton layer.

Therein lies the problem. Even my non-Steam games I run through Steam since it’s so convenient with Proton. My experience with using straight up wine, winetricks, Lutris etc. had been much more clunky in comparison and less reliable for getting things running.

While it’s working fine for now, what do I do if I’m offline and Steam decides this is one of those days offline mode doesn’t work? What if I get banned from Steam?

Has anyone had any luck replicating their Proton setup outside of Steam? Or simply just running a Proton game outside of Steam after getting it set up using Steam?

  • henfredemars@infosec.pub
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    4
    ·
    17 hours ago

    Lutris is definitely the strongest contender, and is mostly based on the same compatibility technology.

      • Lime Buzz (fae/she)@beehaw.org
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        4
        ·
        edit-2
        16 hours ago

        Yeah, Heroic is good but sadly it only supports gog and epic. Not everything is from those stores, sadly. Whereas Lutris supports a lot more sources.

        • entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.org
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          3
          ·
          13 hours ago

          It supports GoG, Epic, and Amazon, but it also supports installing games manually, which has worked for literally everything else for me so far.

          I used to use Lutris, but in the last year or so Heroic got so good I stopped ¯\_(ツ)_/¯