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Any word on when it will get Linux support?

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It's working for me using Steam Play (Proton 4.2-7) on Xubuntu 19.04.

I thought Steam could automatically load up Wine, or something like that?

Not at all. Linux support is developers effort and if you are serious about it you won't use wine.

Some games run better on wine than on their native platforms.

It can actually load arbitrary games with a port of Wine https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/

You are correct, they have developed Proton [1] which is based on Wine.

[1] https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton

have you managed to get it working on proton?

But it's not automatically. I think the developer has to enable that. Probably because the developer is still intended (or wants) to verify that it really works properly in Proton.

Or not sure. But I have not found a way to run arbitrary Windows Steam games on Linux with Proton. Not sure how I would do that.

I thought if you enabled the beta version, you could try any Windows game using Proton.

I tried Proton a while back. My experience was hit and miss with my particular collection.

Yes, you can force it on all games if you want. I'm currently playing many games on the latest version of Proton.

It might be named a bit confusingly though, I'm at work and don't remember exactly but it might be worded something like "Override proton version for all games" which also enables it for games not explicitly marked as compatible.

I really believe gaming is the #1 thing holding back linux in the home. The #1 thing in enterprise is probably cheap sysadmins.

Try Steam's new built-in "Proton" system. It's made almost every Windows-only game in my Steam library run flawlessly with a double-click.

With recent developments like DMVK / Vulkan and such, even the latest DirectX games run amazingly well (I'm able to run high-end games like Heroes of the Storm, Witcher 3, etc at native speeds on High/Ultra quality settings).

Got ahead of myself and forgot to check the Steam forum for it... and it was asked and answered already. TLDR; No plans.

https://steamcommunity.com/app/929860/discussions/0/17433576...

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