i primarily use fedora linux and im looking a website or something specifically for linux versions of games, specifically stardew valley and hyper light drifter. any help would be great!

  • elidoz@lemmy.mlEnglish
    121·
    9 days ago

    I’m not sure if it’s better to play native linux games than to use wine

    some games I tried, the native linux version had broken lighting, while the wine version worked fine

    also with wine all your saves are in the game folder, and it doesn’t make a mess by saving files wherever the developer thought would do the job

    also it’s easier to find the latest version for windows than it is for linux

    • LittleBobbyTables@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
      1·
      8 days ago

      Agreed, and one particular example I can think of is Terraria’s Steam Workshop tools. If I try and publish a texture pack using the Linux-native version of the game, it crashes, but when I use the Windows version of the game via Proton, it works just fine. Not sure if the developers have gotten around to fixing this yet.

      Edit: Now that I think of it, it’s a similar story with Half-Life 2 now that they added Steam Workshop support for its 20th anniversary. Crashes on native, works fine under Proton.

      • elidoz@lemmy.mlEnglish
        1·
        3 days ago

        probably you’re right, I haven’t yet done the research to understand how to use them properly or know the difference (iirc proton is wine modified by valve but that’s about as much as I know), I haven’t had time to look closely into it