I’m fully Linux for two years now, have played ~140 games and had a total of 2 major issues and 2 minor issues with games:
Cyberpunk 2077 (at least before the 2.0 update) crashed frequently because of a called function that the nvidia gpu driver couldn’t handle. Since I switched to AMD this has been resolved and I had no issue whatsoever, even modded
Minecraft has a memory freeing issue when using an AMD GPU (kinda ironic) which causes the game to crash every 3-5 hours or so. This is resolved by either restarting the game gracefully every few hours or not being an addict
I couldn’t get achievements to log for Return to Moria on any proton version I had. Kind of silly problem but I’m an achievement hunter so it still annoys me
the windows version of fear and hunger via proton runs better than the native Linux version, especially on steam deck. It’s weird but I don’t make the rules
A lot of dev companies treat their native Linux versions like an afterthought, if they don’t outright outsource the project to a 3rd party. That’s why the Proton version typically works better if the title isn’t Indie. If an Indie dev makes the port, it’s probably alright.
Admittedly, I think this is one thing about Linux gaming that Proton will make worse, now that devs can just test the game in Proton and not even bother with a native Linux version. I don’t foresee that changing unless Linux somehow becomes the overwhelming majority OS, and while I think it will take a good chunk of market share in the coming years, I don’t foresee it becoming the overwhelming majority for some time.
Damn, that Minecraft issue sucks. Have you tried using launchers, different Java versions, and performance mods?
I’m on AMD GPU and I have no issues with Minecraft on Prism launcher. Prob better performance than Windows, but I never had it to compare
I’m fully Linux for two years now, have played ~140 games and had a total of 2 major issues and 2 minor issues with games:
A lot of dev companies treat their native Linux versions like an afterthought, if they don’t outright outsource the project to a 3rd party. That’s why the Proton version typically works better if the title isn’t Indie. If an Indie dev makes the port, it’s probably alright.
Admittedly, I think this is one thing about Linux gaming that Proton will make worse, now that devs can just test the game in Proton and not even bother with a native Linux version. I don’t foresee that changing unless Linux somehow becomes the overwhelming majority OS, and while I think it will take a good chunk of market share in the coming years, I don’t foresee it becoming the overwhelming majority for some time.
Damn, that Minecraft issue sucks. Have you tried using launchers, different Java versions, and performance mods? I’m on AMD GPU and I have no issues with Minecraft on Prism launcher. Prob better performance than Windows, but I never had it to compare
I only used native Minecraft and the normal Minecraft launcher, idk this issue might’ve been resolved