How to disable Proton?
I don’t want to (even accidentally) be counted as a Windows user, neither do I want to support “just build a Windows version, Linux users can run that too”. That’s how developers treated OS/2, and look where that got them.
You are not counted as windows user if you are playing games with Proton as long you are using official Steam client for Linux, if you are using Steam for windows and running it with WINE then (i think) you are counted as windows user
I had the same experience introducing Linux to other people:
“Oh yeah, gaming just works out of the box on Linux”, one install later…
“Hey, it says ‘Only for 🪟’ for everything except Portal and a couple other games!”
“Whoops, you have to go in the settings and check this very particular box, then it just works out of the box.”
I have to add an extra parameter to all my proton enabled games so that I use wine for 3d. If I don’t, I get blank screens. If I do, works like a charm. I post to the proton db after I verify it on each game.
Do you mean PROTON_USE_WINED3D=1 ? If so, you don’t have Vulkan compatible hardware (GPU from like before 2012) or missing drivers. With this flag you use OpenGL rendered instead, that is inferior in every way. If you try it on modern hardware with the right driver in place you’ll get much worse performance, if it even works. This flag shouldn’t be promoted generally.
If you run ancient GPU and want to always fallback to OpenGL, you can put the line
PROTON_USE_WINED3D=1in
/etc/environmentand reboot. No need to set that in properties for every individual game.Do you think adding to /etc/envoronment would work with kde-inhibit? I’ve been trying to find a way to have Steam block sleep when a game is running, which I can do on a game-by-game basis with kde-inhibit, but I want it to run for every steam game. For some reason my machine does not inhibit sleep when games are running, or even when audio or video are playing
I don’t think that’s the good idea even if possible to do with env variable. This should just work correctly, you either miss something in your system or hit some nasty bug of your distro/build or it’s general KDE bug
“make it easier” meanwhile Steam is still only 32-bit
Edit: I forgot Lemmy users need everything explained - many package managers require manual intervention to enable multi-lib repos in order to install 32-bit software, hence why having 64-bit binaries would be easier. ✨
That, itself, doesn’t really make using steam and more difficult
If that doesn’t make it more difficult to use, then enabling Proton by default doesn’t either. Most distros I’ve used require enabling multi-lib repos in the package manager just to try installing steam - you’re telling me that isn’t added difficulty?
All 64 but cpus can run 32 bit processes just fine, and many distros enable multilib, or have some sort of alternative (e.g. SNAP) by default. Only distro I’ve had to do that on is arch… And that’s a DIY distro, so that makes sense.
They’ll get there. The LAST thing we want is for them to rush Steam 64 bit. What we have is pretty damn stable.
