Quoting: KimyrielleSo...

What do people think is the better choice to run Windows games now? regular WINE? Staging? Proton?

I think the only definitive answer is "It depends." I suppose "Whatever works" is also acceptable.

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Quoting: Mountain ManMaybe it's Skyrim. Wouldn't that be ironic now that you can play Skyrim in Steam for Linux using Proton.

As far as I know, you can't play Skyrim using Proton yet. Or am I wrong?

I assure you that you can, and it actually works extremely well.

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Maybe it's Skyrim. Wouldn't that be ironic now that you can play Skyrim in Steam for Linux using Proton.

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I've tried it with four games so far: Spelunky, Batman: Arkham Asylum Game of the Year, LEGO The Lord of the Rings, and Skyrim.

Spelunky worked flawlessly and ran like a native game, which isn't too surprising.

Skyrim works with a slight loss of performance; also, I can't see when swimming underwater. The most surprising part is that Steam synced my save games from the last time I played nearly 5-years ago! I was able to select "Continue" from the main menu and pick up where I left off. Now the only question is, do I prefer playing on my PC, or on my Switch?

LEGO LotR showed me the first loading screen and then immediately crashed to desktop, and Arkham Asylum didn't start at all.

So it's a good start for Proton, but it seems it has a long way to go. To be fair, it is still in beta, so there's a lot to be done. Right now Proton is closed, and your game will either work, or it won't, and there's nothing you can do. I hope Valve opens it up and lets the user tweak things for themselves (it is Wine, after all) and then maybe implement a system where custom tweaks can be shared with other users.

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Too bad they also seem to have a "FCK LINUX" initiative. When is the Linux version of GoG Galaxy supposed to be released again?

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"Proton counts as Linux."

Now that is huge!

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For an "action RPG", that trailer doesn't feature much action.

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Looks very interesting. It's intriguing that you start out as a full-powered mage instead of having to progressively develop your character. It's such a break from gaming tradition that I'm curious how it's going to work in practice. It's currently showing "Mixed" reviews on Steam. The most common complaint is that there's not a lot of substance to it, and the novelty of it all wears thin after a couple of hours.

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Quoting: EMO GANGSTERsweet another free game

Yeah, I've gotten so many free games from one source or another over the past couple of years that it's almost silly to spend money on them any more. My Steam library is so large at this point that it's unlikely that I'll ever play every game in it.

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Quoting: Mountain Man

Quoting: Purple Library Guy...or, hate to say it, the GIMP for Photoshop.

I actually prefer the GIMP to Photoshop, although admittedly I am not a graphic design professional. When it comes to post-processing my photos, I find that it produces results just as good as anything I've done with Photoshop. Plus, you can't beat the price, especially when you consider Adobe's onerous subscription model that effectively locks your intellectual property behind a paywall.

I don't doubt that the GIMP is really good. But at the professional level it seems image fiddling is dominated by various proprietary schemes which the GIMP can't pay to use--or at least, that's how it was for a number of crucial years in the early evolution of Linux. And certain famous features of its UI (which, again, have changed rather these days) were very much of an acquired taste by all accounts. Between those things and a few others, the GIMP was just not as workable a substitute for Photoshop (to a lot of Photoshop users), as OpenOffice was for Office.

GIMP is a lot better than it used to be to the point that I think it's a viable alternative to Photoshop, assuming you don't rely on some of Photoshop's proprietary features.

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