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I remember when Proton launched it was like magic playing games like Doom and Nier Automata straight from the Linux Steam client with excellent performance. I do not miss the days of having the Windows version of Steam installed separately.

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[–] [email protected] 86 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

And to say that there used to be a time when "Linux gaming" was an oxymoron as it at most meant SuperTuxKart or mindlessly watching glxgears.

[–] [email protected] 51 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Mindlessly watching glxgears is the greatest experience a GPU can render.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

They're so smooth when you buy a high end graphics card.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Windows gamers will never understand the joy that glxgears gave us

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I remember when Linux gaming meant Nethack.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

I mean, Nethack is still great...

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Is there something like vulkangears now?

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

vkcube exists in most repositories I guess

Edit: Looks like there is a vkgears too

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

vulkangears

I know that the vulcan-tools package has vkcube in it. Someone did make vulkangears as an example, along with some other examples, but I don't think its a published package in any distro repos so it'd need to be manually compiled to run it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Been playing Warcraft 3 / DotA and Counter-Strike on Linux since 2005. Still playing Dota and Counter-Strike. Are there other games worth playing? 😂