WoW has been running well on Linux since before Proton existed. Here’s the WineHQ application page for it: https://appdb.winehq.org/appview.php?iAppId=1922

Try using Protonup-QT to install the latest GE-Proton version on your machine, restart Steam and then set the game to run with GE-Proton.

Personally it usually works for me with Experimental, but GE is generally the best.

You need to put games into specific folders, but that’s the whole setup. Everything else is automated.

For PC games you can put the .desktop shortcut files for the games into the steam folder

ES-DE is probably the fastest to setup

If your top priority is connection stability (and latency is right behind that), consider going wired with a USB extender and a big USB splitter at the couch-end. You’ll save a bundle and the connections won’t ever drop

I have the 8bitdo pro 2 and I love it. Feels great wired or wireless

Sunshine docs show how to not stream the Discord audio

As far as your system being muted on your end, there’s a setting in Sunshine called audio_sink. If you set that, the sound will be captured from whichever device you set instead of a virtual device. That will keep Sunshine from muting your speakers.

Happy to help!

It’s almost certainly not the drive.

What version of Wine or Proton are you using to run those games? Heroic should let you install a bunch of different versions. Personally I use Proton Experimental and the Steam Runtime for BG3

Somebody recently mentioned Monado, which apparently supports asynchronous reproduction on Linux. Should help a lot with the stutter

Are you talking about C:S 2? Because Cities Skylines 1 does have a native Linux version, per ProtonDB (and also my computer)

I contributed to that once! Super cool project

What framerate are you getting? According to PCGamingWiki, the game is capped at 62FPS by default and if you want to get around that you’ll need the fan-made Advanced Launcher.

They also mention on there that you’ll need to have the PhysX System Software installed if you want PhysX to work (in your case installed probably via winetricks on the same Wine prefix as the game).

https://www.pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/Batman:_Arkham_Asylum

Valheim is very Linux friendly and is a great game. No Man’s Sky runs great on Proton, as well.

Linux Mint is just Ubuntu but with no snaps and better optimized for desktop (as opposed to server) use

As another person who’s used Linux for a long time, I also use Mint on my gaming machine because it’s so boringly stable I never waste time fixing it.

It just works

Likewise I use an 8Bitdo Pro 2. Works great for me on Linux, Android, and Switch. Even has gyro support on Switch.

You can also swap the RAM and SSD

The open source Nvidia drivers are part of Mesa. You were talking about RADV and RadeonSI, the open-source AMD drivers in Mesa.

In addition to the differences in permissions and kernel behavior you’ve pointed out, there’s also a huge difference in the filesystems themselves.

Windows’ default filesystem is NTFS. Linux’s is EXT4.

EXT4 is significantly more modern (2008 vs 2001) and featureful (no fragmentation, handles small files much better, journaling, etc) than NTFS.

In stable? It’d be available when 23.3 is released, so 3 months.

That said, it depends on your distro when it’d be available to you

Because she has my copy of the game installed on her PC too, so with one copy we’re able to play together on two different computers instead of sharing a screen.

The lack of DRM means GoG doesn’t care about whether I’m online on more than one PC. Steam does, meaning one of us would need to be in offline mode. In games that implement the Steam DRM this would mean that the person in offline mode wouldn’t be able to play multiplayer.

Apparently that isn’t the case with this game but I didn’t realize that.

Heroic supports Epic, GoG, and now Amazon games. Supports installs, updates, file validation, and uninstalls perfectly. I think for Epic it supports cloud saves as well, but I don’t use that feature and have heard horror stories from early adopters of it.

I have it. Installed/updated using Heroic. Works perfectly. I use the latest Proton-GE with it, and run the Vulkan backend (seems to have fewer bugs for me on AMD GPU than the DX11 version).

Running the latest Mint with the 6.1 OEM kernel and kisak-mesa drivers.

My wife has it installed with Galaxy on Windows. DRM-free means we can play co-op over LAN instead of being stuck with split-screen.

Let’s not forget VKD3D and DXVK. Absolutely earthshattering impact

If this and monolithic pipeline get merged, 23.3 is going to be insanely impressive

I use Mint for gaming with a 6.1 oem kernel and kisak-mesa drivers. Works great, super stable with no issues. Most stuff has an Ubuntu LTS release, for everything else I use Flatpak.

You’re using FSR through Gamescope, which is configured entirely by the Steam Deck’s version of the Steam client. This is FSR for anyone using any steam client (or using Heroic or Lutris!) and can be enabled/configured via some environment variables.

For those of us using X11 instead of Wayland this is one of the simplest options.

For Steam Deck users it doesn’t really matter because you get it thru gamescope/the Steam Deck UI.

You double posted this comment, might wanna delete one

There are firmware fixes and such that need to be implemented, so yes, coders.