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I remember when Proton launched it was like magic playing games like Doom and Nier Automata straight from the Linux Steam client with excellent performance. I do not miss the days of having the Windows version of Steam installed separately.

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[–] AlmightySnoo@lemmy.world 86 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (5 children)

And to say that there used to be a time when "Linux gaming" was an oxymoron as it at most meant SuperTuxKart or mindlessly watching glxgears.

[–] atmur@lemmy.world 51 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Mindlessly watching glxgears is the greatest experience a GPU can render.

[–] rikudou@lemmings.world 13 points 11 months ago

They're so smooth when you buy a high end graphics card.

[–] AlmightySnoo@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago

Windows gamers will never understand the joy that glxgears gave us

[–] SoleInvictus@lemmy.world 14 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I remember when Linux gaming meant Nethack.

[–] circuskid@lemmy.world 15 points 11 months ago

I mean, Nethack is still great...

[–] redcalcium@lemmy.institute 8 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Is there something like vulkangears now?

[–] Anafabula@discuss.tchncs.de 15 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

vkcube exists in most repositories I guess

Edit: Looks like there is a vkgears too

[–] russjr08@outpost.zeuslink.net 9 points 11 months ago

vulkangears

I know that the vulcan-tools package has vkcube in it. Someone did make vulkangears as an example, along with some other examples, but I don't think its a published package in any distro repos so it'd need to be manually compiled to run it.

[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Been playing Warcraft 3 / DotA and Counter-Strike on Linux since 2005. Still playing Dota and Counter-Strike. Are there other games worth playing? 😂