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    Who played on linux before proton? (lemmy.world)
    submitted 1 year ago by Waffelson@lemmy.world to c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world
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    [–] Hubi@feddit.de 3 points 1 year ago

    I hated Windows 8 enough to put up with it at the time. It's nuts how much things have improved since then.

    [–] marzhall@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

    My eve online circa 2008-10 was on Linux, as well as other not-entirely well remembered attempts dating back to around 2005, when I was more interested in spinny cube desktop. Fglrx and I were well acquainted, but not quite friends.

    [–] sirico@feddit.uk 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    Basically some Source games, Gog's offerings and Guild Wars in-between rounds of tuxkart

    [–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 year ago

    Insert Tuxkart music

    [–] keyez@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

    10 years ago back in college I mainly ran Ubuntu and did the windows VM with VFIO GPU passthrough to game on a fullscreen windows VM that got full PCI usage of the GPU, was the best of both worlds

    [–] whyNotSquirrel@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    Does Teeworld count?

    [–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    The last time I played that game I was immediately kicked due to "skill issue"

    Its good you like it though, I just wish there was local version

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    [–] stoy@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 year ago

    OpenTTD worked excellent on Ubuntu on my Dell E5400 back in 2009-2011 or so.

    [–] TheFadingOne@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago

    I started gaming on Linux at the beginning of 2019, that was afaik half a year after Proton was released, and I still remember how rough around the edges it was. Back then it still felt somewhat like a coin flip (the odds in reality were obviously a good deal better) if a game ran. Seeing how much they improved it over the last 5 years is really quite something.

    [–] electromage@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    WoW runs well under Wine without much trouble.

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    [–] Tarogar@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago

    Iirc I did that for roughly a year and then proton hit. It was a bit of a different experience for sure but even at that time it was not all that bad. coincidentally that time also taught me a lot on how to troubleshoot stuff so I suppose it had it's benefits despite the added hassle that it was sometimes.

    [–] andrew0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 year ago

    I got NFS Most Wanted (2005) working in Wine, and was somewhat impressed how easy it was at the time. Game worked quite well, and would only crash once in a while with some cryptic errors that I don't remember. Made me hopeful for the future of linux gaming :)

    [–] MrSoup@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 year ago

    I played a lot on my laptop with Debian 9 with just plain wine and one prefix for everything (I don't remember the wine version).
    I can't remember all the games I played, but I do remember the last 3: all the Deadspace

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