Emma
steam on linux
is steam on linux… good now? without VR, just for normal games?
I avoid steam as much as possible, & it's not helping that they've officially dropped support in the client/launcher for Windows 8 (still have 8.1 on the other boot sector, you'll never catch me running 10/11+)
but I do have a bunch of old games there anyway
re: steam on linux
I don't have / never been interested in getting a "steam deck"
the sense I'm getting is that steam's "proton" (runtime? environment?) isn't restricted to the steam deck; it's a regular linux application (gui?) that can in turn run many/most games that were only built for windows?
re: steam on linux
@emerald Proton is usable in regular desktop Linux in Steam. It's typically transparent when it works, you just run the game like a normal Linux game. If you want to use it to run a Windows game that's not on Steam, that's possible but a little weird to set up.
There are also various other launchers that can do stuff with Proton outside of Steam, and forks of Proton, that I have no experience with.
(My job has me working on Proton sometimes.)
