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You open Steam, click Play, and the game launches.
The same as it does on Windows.
You left out the part where you have to install wine though.
Install Wine in the Terminal using "sudo apt install wine64" (64-bit computers) or "sudo apt install wine32" (32-bit computers). Download a Windows ".exe" or ". msi" program and go to the download location by typing "cd ~/Downloads" in the Terminal and pressing "Enter." Type "wine <name of ".exe" or "
Yeah. Sounds way more fun that just getting whatever game I want and having supported drivers right away.
Just fave it man. Linux knst a boss OS like you want people to believe. And why be so pushy about it in the first place? Windows works great for me. Linux is fine when I want to use it. What does my OS preference trigger you so hard?
I didn't leave it out because you don't need install wine. Wine is part of Proton, Steam installs and configures Proton automatically.
You can install Steam through the GUI. Every major Desktop Environment for the past decade has included the ability to install software through the GUI.
You open Steam, click 'Enable Steam Play' in the options and then it is functionally identical to installing and playing games on Windows. You don't need to even know what wine is, or how proton works.
Why are you in a Linux community if Linux triggers you so hard?
I can answer those.
Okay.
I'm not subscribed to any Linux forums, I happen to view "all" sometimes.
Linux doesn't trigger me. The community of users does because they can't grasp that not every human being thinks Linux is the best. It is extremely impractical for music production and for gaming.
Cool. You can is tall proton, but ever single Linux version I have ever used is nothing but problems and incompatibility with software.
Like I said before, I use Linux when I want to, but responding to the original post I replied it, it's not practical for me to use.
Of course it isn't practical for all purposes, the people that believe that are either ignorant or a caricature. I was addressing the specific task of gaming.
In that task, it is very workable. There are some caveats but the fact that the Steamdeck exists and is popular is testament to the state of gaming on Linux.
That's not because of Linux, but of your unfamiliarity with it. You needed to struggle to learn to do basic tasks in Windows when you were learning it and now you don't. Windows didn't change, you just learned
I'd need to use Google to do basic tasks in Adobe's software, but that doesn't say anything about the quality of the software, or it's usefulness... only my lack of familiarity. If I had experience with their products then I wouldn't need Google.