It's as good as any other distro, in to say pretty good. There are some cracks that just refuse to work in Linux, but most are pretty easy to get going.
I've been incentivised not to, because Steam + Proton work so well.
Probably worth downloading some backups and getting them running though, in case Steam decides to rug pull
proton makes things work so well... i just sit there at /c/paitientgamer ... and i'm as filthy as they come
i use steam+proton to run cracked steam games on my deck quite frequently actually. just gotta add em as non-steam games and tell em to use whichever proton version
I run arch exclusively and find gaming to be pretty seamless and enjoyable, but it does require some config. This is mostly because arch makes no assumptions so dependencies installed by default on other systems are likely not present unless you installed them.
I suggest running Lutris since it handles wine prefixes. Wine prefixes essentially do the work of keeping your individual game installs compartmentalized so each game has all the required dependencies to run properly.
Regardless of whether you use Lutris, the maintainers of that software have good documentation on installing wine and its dependencies here. The guide has a section for Arch and is particularly helpful for ensuring you have all appropriate vulkan or nvidia drivers and driver dependencies installed.
Best of luck if you decide to go down the arch path!
Its great. I use lutris for my games and point the custom wine excutable to steam's proton experimental
If anyone could answer these questions for me that would be 😎.
I haven't used lutris or wine/proto yet. Do you just sign into your steam account through lutris and it sets up the library automatically?
Is steams proton installed with steam now? Or do I have to get that somewhere else?
Why would I need to use lutris if the games are in steam big picture?
I don't really understand the wine and proton aspect in terms installing and using it.
Edit: just realized this is about cracked games... For my post I am talking about steam store bought games.
U dont need to use lutris if u buy games on steam. Just enable proton
Steam is available on most distro repo's and even if it isn't install it via flatpak and off you go
once you've done that goto settings and steam play and there's a option there something about "use proton for all unverified games" or something, I'm not at my pc to get the direct wording and then you'll be able to install any game from your library and play it
you can use protondb.com to check if games you want to play work on Linux with proton
It works fine. You'll likely notice a slight decrease in performance and a lot of the time you'll be using Windows versions of games instead of native Linux titles because that's what's available. Sometimes Lutris install scripts won't play nice with pirated game installers so you might have to look at the script and see what tweaks it uses.
I use Bottles for most stuff, and everything works smoothly.
Same, I tried lutris but it just wasn't working consistently. Bottles is both easier and consistent for me.
Lutris still got them scripts tho for specific needs.
I'm not on Arch, I'm on Gentoo, but I'm using Flatpak, so this should apply to you too.
Just get Bottles.
I've tried it on:
- Assassin's Creed 1
- Assassin's Creed 2
- Nier Automata
- Nier Replicant
- Crash Bandicoot
- Dishonored
... and probably some other titles I can't recall on top of my head.
The gotcha is that you may have to install the right library dependencies (e.g. DVDX, .NET, Mono, Redistributable C++, probably fonts), which can be done on the Bottles.
Protonup+lutris
Or if you have a lot of ram, heroic launcher
