• 0ops@piefed.zip
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      2 months ago

      I’ve heard that there’s some older windows games that don’t run in newer versions of Windows but do run in proton

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      2 months ago

      Not necessarily, steam includes a windows compatibility layer making many windows games playable on Linux and that’s how most steam deck games run. On stream deck specifically the battery life and performance is often better under this translation layer than installing windows and running them natively.

      Edit: Just skimmed the article, this is exactly what it’s about.

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        2 months ago

        The comment you replied to did not dispute that. They said Windows games run on Windows, not that they don’t run on Linux.

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        2 months ago

        I think its more that you stated the obvious. Like saying 100% of Linux Appimages run on Linux. The reason to move from Windows, or one of them, is MS using telemetry and screen capture and other bloat that ruins the gamiglng experience due to processing power needed, you move that to a Linux machine and there’s no background garbage running.

        For example my machine had dual boot, at idle windows was using 6% of processing power to do nothing. On Linux it was 0 to .5% to idle.

        With windows updates I have to delete Ai.exe and Ai.DLL from the office folders or randomly ai starts hogging resources even if I have no office apps in use. Just a terrible user experience.

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          2 months ago

          They stated the obvious, which didn’t add to the conversation, and also was wrong. There are a number of older games that just do not work on modern Windows. Frequently they work through WINE/Proton just fine though.