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Steam Beta finally enables Proton on Linux fully, making Linux gaming simpler
(www.gamingonlinux.com)
Ah, Good Guy Valve helping us prepare for October eh?
this post was submitted on 18 Jun 2025
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And now Valve needs to figure out how to tell users which game works and which game doesn't work. Maybe some kind of badge for Proton?
Steam deck compatibility is close enough to the same thing.
A lot of games that that don’t work on steamdeck because they need more performance still work perfectly well with proton on a decent gaming rig
Yeah, when I made the switch, I checked a bunch of the games I played the most for steam deck compatibility and thought I had to give up on some of them, only to find that they were still fine because my desktop is much more powerful than the steam deck. Plus it has a keyboard; if a game requires a keyboard, it hurts the steam deck compatability score (how much depends on if it's required for playing the game at all or just needed every now and then to enter some text).
So treat "steam deck supported" as "works on linux" and "steam deck unsupported" as "maybe works on linux".
I think the better indicator of not supported at all on Linux is the "3rd party kernel anticheat" marker in the store, though I tend to avoid games with that anyways, so I can't really say for sure.
I usually just check protondb. It‘ll tell you everything you need to know
They've already expanded it into a non-deck-speciphic thing for the other compatible handhelds.
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As someone who hasn’t yet migrated their gaming PC to linux, does this mean that third-party games imported into steam should work automatically? No flags or config adjustments?
If so, will it choose specific Proton versions for known games or pick a default (latest, I presume) version for all of them?
Right now, all you have to do is go to the settings of your non-steam game, go to compatibility, and choose a Proton version. I'm not sure if this change will automate it, but it's pretty much as easy as it can be already.
If that’s really all there is to it at the moment, sounds great! The other obstacles are my nvidia graphics card, and HDR support…
I've had good experiences with my Nvidia card on Aurora (same basis as e.g. Bazzite), but HDR is indeed still an issue.
i feel like desktop nvidia cards are ok, laptop nvidia cards are a nightmare because of the weird igpu/dgpu shit under the hood
That's why I chose a laptop without iGPU, because only one GPU means less hassle.
Guess what: the Nvidia drivers aren't setup for laptop dGPUs without iGPU. It's horrible, even worse than my last laptop with two GPUs.
And the battery life is ridiculous.
I haven't had any issues with my 3070, and HDR works fine on kde-arch
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You can just add them and start them. If it doesnt work immediately, you can look at protondb which solution works best.
Gaming on Linux gets worse and worse every article he writes
Finally
Just in time for my new nvme drive so I can fully segregate windows and Linux after that mf broke my install again
Yeah that's what I did but Windows will insert itself to the top of boot entries in UEFI anyway lol
Install Windows on a separate SATA drive so you can remove it later without repartitioning. Also it is easier to boot, just change boot drive on startup.
Yeah I currently have Linux and windows sharing my only nvme drive because I wanted to use the fastest drive for the OS but clearly it's causing issues. So I just bought a cheaper one that I will dedicate to windows, along with a sata SSD.
Do you think I can get away with just wiping the partitioned drive and reinstalling both OS, keeping their data drives as is, since they are already each entirely dedicated to one OS ? Or should I do a full clean ?
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