Assuming you’re playing proprietary games, I’m not sure why Steam also being proprietary is a step too far for you.
Anyway if you’re playing games with low enough spec requirements to run on an iGPU, they’ll just run, no extra steps needed. Distro shouldn’t matter either.
By install another distro, I meant install a distro that has a nonfree repo(I’m using pureos), and just boot from a usb. I’m not sure how steam is packaged, but I’d imagine it would go against the point of a distro like pureos.
Proton is Wine with prefixes, basically, you can use it without Steam on Lutris for example (Wine-GE suggested); also, emulation for old games isn’t so demanding, try different cores for RetroArch.
Can you elaborate? Do you mean that it includes prefixes with it?
emulation for old games isn’t so demanding
By old, I meant 2010 to 2015, which is where my laptop reaches it’s limits. I’ve tried ps3 emulation and it couldn’t pull that off, and there is no emulator for 360 on linux(that I know of).
If you want to learn more in depth about how Proton works I suggest you to ask here on [GloriousEggroll’s Discord](https://discord.gg/6y3BdzC.
For emulation, X360 and PS3 needs intense resources and their emulators may be in an early development state; look back to the previous generations, maybe with a cool megabezel shader on RA.
Wine-GE was abandoned for the new UMU-launcher. Lutris will use UMU if you target the GE-Proton (latest) version.
You can always use vanilla wine or wine staging too, make sure you install dxvk in the prefix though with winetricks.
Assuming you’re playing proprietary games, I’m not sure why Steam also being proprietary is a step too far for you.
Anyway if you’re playing games with low enough spec requirements to run on an iGPU, they’ll just run, no extra steps needed. Distro shouldn’t matter either.
By install another distro, I meant install a distro that has a nonfree repo(I’m using pureos), and just boot from a usb. I’m not sure how steam is packaged, but I’d imagine it would go against the point of a distro like pureos.
There’s a flatpak steam package. You could also use distrobox to install containerized packages from other distros.
If you don’t want to use Steam you can use the Heroic Launcher that does Epic and other games, especially itch.io games.
Um… were you looking for only open-source games? Good luck
It’s just a preference, I prefer downloading from GOG, without the DRM or proprietary clients. Edit: I know steam has an open source command line tool
Proton is Wine with prefixes, basically, you can use it without Steam on Lutris for example (Wine-GE suggested); also, emulation for old games isn’t so demanding, try different cores for RetroArch.
Can you elaborate? Do you mean that it includes prefixes with it?
By old, I meant 2010 to 2015, which is where my laptop reaches it’s limits. I’ve tried ps3 emulation and it couldn’t pull that off, and there is no emulator for 360 on linux(that I know of).
If you want to learn more in depth about how Proton works I suggest you to ask here on [GloriousEggroll’s Discord](https://discord.gg/6y3BdzC.
For emulation, X360 and PS3 needs intense resources and their emulators may be in an early development state; look back to the previous generations, maybe with a cool megabezel shader on RA.
Thanks for the invite, I decided to have a squizz at the github, and saw that
Do you think that Wine-GE might be better for GOG games? I remember Wine-GE working fine for me before.
Wine-GE was abandoned for the new UMU-launcher. Lutris will use UMU if you target the GE-Proton (latest) version. You can always use vanilla wine or wine staging too, make sure you install dxvk in the prefix though with winetricks.
Despite Steam being proprietary, Proton (it’s emulation system) is so profoundly stable I feel like it’s a necessary evil at this time.
I haven’t found a single “windows” game yet in my library that doesn’t work with steam
Thanks for the input, do you use the official steam client?