i primarily use fedora linux and im looking a website or something specifically for linux versions of games, specifically stardew valley and hyper light drifter. any help would be great!

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        26 days ago

        In my experience not just sometimes, but rather commonly. It often feels like the native Linux version, if it is even available, gets far fewer bug fixes - not like I can blame them, considering the far lower amount of Linux players, but sometimes I wonder why they even bother with it in the first place if they don’t want to bother with focusing on it, with how good Proton is.

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        26 days ago

        What I find even more amazing is that with some regularity the windows versions run better (faster, fewer issues) in wine than on native windows. Used to happen more frequently when DX12 was still fairly fresh, but still happens.

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            26 days ago

            Yes. But Proton is just wine with extra patches. And many eventually find their way into upstream wine.

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              26 days ago

              Yeah, I know… I just think it’s an important distinction if we’re talking to people who are new to Linux gaming.

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    27 days ago

    You do you and maybe you have no spare money, but Stardew Valley is probably one example of a game that is worth buying. Not too expensive, goes on sale regularly, available on GOG, creator still pumps out updates with small new content even.

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    25 days ago

    It’s funny, I frequently find myself configuring native Linux games I legitimately own to instead run the windows version through Proton.

    …I’m sorry that that’s pretty much the exact opposite of an answer to your question.

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    27 days ago

    There are a few linux native games, with actually compiled for Linux binaries. Otherwise you’d better look at the WINE project and all that make many windows (as in win64) games runs on Linux.

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      For OP’s sake, I’ll add that many, many games in steam can be jiggered to work in compatibility mode on Linux. Its as simple as telling steam to use compatibility mode on all games, and checking proton.db for tricks.

      With Heroic launcher, Epic, Amazon Prime (untested for me) and GoG too.

      The only games I have so far been unable to play are Fortnite and an obscure FPS I forget rn, both with EAC.

      WINE is the last thing I try after these easy solutions.

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    27 days ago

    I game on Linux (Arch, btw) and the only games that don’t work using wine/proton (so far) are those that require kernel level anti-cheat software. Everything else runs mostly flawlessly throgh Steam or Lutris.

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    27 days ago

    I’m not sure if it’s better to play native linux games than to use wine

    some games I tried, the native linux version had broken lighting, while the wine version worked fine

    also with wine all your saves are in the game folder, and it doesn’t make a mess by saving files wherever the developer thought would do the job

    also it’s easier to find the latest version for windows than it is for linux