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ELI5: What causes a Steam game not to run on an operating system like a Linux distro? (lemmy.world)

submitted 21 hours ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I primarily use my pc for gaming, and want to avoid upgrading to Windows 11. Beginning the journey of looking into alternatives.

I am ignorant, trying to be less so. I have a hard time understanding what exactly makes a game not work just because of OS.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

So far the only thing that has been an issue has been anticheat

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

I'd say the anti-cheat has only recently become the "only issue". It's not like wine and proton could run everything flawlessly before kernel level stuff came along. The translation was imperfect and incomplete, so shit simply did not work. Lots of hard work on those projects slowly but surely filled in the gaps, and now we are finally at a stage where we can say that if a game doesn't work it's by design.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 hours ago

There are certain instances where certain games on Windows run slightly better because the Windows function implementation was possibly written slightly better. However, this is becoming rarer and rarer. I've faced it only when playing random 3d indie games.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 19 hours ago

Same here. Newer versions of Easy Anti-Cheat work fine, but pretty much anything else breaks. Rising Storm 2: Vietnam is an example of a game that uses EAC, but with a version too old to work with Linux