The last few days at work have been pretty rough. I came home today and immediately passed out after eating some leftover lasagna from dinner at a friend and former co-workers house. Today wasn’t as bad, but yesterday and Tuesday were crazy busy with no rhyme or reason. I played a bit of DMC1 today during lunch, that was fun. I also tried running DMC HD Collection in Mint today. The good news is that the launcher works perfectly, the bad news is that once you choose what game you want to play it’ll just crash to desktop. Of course you can still technically play it under Linux, but you’ll have to use an emulator instead and have the necessary ROMS or disks on hand.
I’ve been collecting video footage documenting my adventures with Proton, and plan on making an introductory video showing my desktop as well as games that work under Linux via SteamPlay. I watched a couple big YouTubers about the subjects, and I can tell they’re mainly making videos about Proton and Linux gaming just to garner attention and rake in the ad revenue. I can tell especially when I compare their videos to other YouTubers who actually do use Linux on a regular basis. For example I’ve been reading and seeing others try to add their Windows Steam Library straight from their Windows game drive, which causes the desired game to download in a loop over and over again, as well as potentially corrupt your game on the Windows side.
Even though Proton uses the same install paths as Windows you can’t install or mount games from a drive that uses the ntfs file system (you can thank Microsoft for not wanting their filesystem to work properly with other operating systems). Best results are achieved if you use ext4 instead. This is one the many things inspiring me to make my own Linux videos, plus YouTube could use more Tux love. :v: