There’s only a difference if you haven’t stored credit card data in your steam account.
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No I don’t 
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Great thread!
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Played a bit of reforger tonight with the guys. Worked very well, with the exception that the experimental branch produces some flickering grass artifacts. I checked against the non-experimental branch, which doesn’t have that problem.
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Experimental branch of Proton or Reforger?
Reforger.
Edit: I should add that the experimental branch of proton works much better then the others, the other’s produced some frametime spikes that I didn’t notice in experimental.
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Just managed to “port” my Stalker 2 savegames over to my Lutris install.
Wine creates a file tree similar to a Windows system installation inside the game install, so you just have to copy the save game files to the right folder , i.e. in my case
~/Games/gog/stalker-2-heart-of-chernobyl/drive_c/users/sgrill/AppData/Local/
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Also I hit my first real roadbump, tried to get Garmin Express running in Wine. Had to tinker a bit with what dotnet version to install via winetricks but finally got it running. It does however not find my Garmin watch. There seems to be an open issue concerning this problem but it has gone stale. Perhaps this is one for the virtual machine then.
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Does that mean you have DCS running on Wine?
Edit: I just found a github repo dedicated to running DCS with Wine/Proton, gonna start with that.
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No I fly DCS in VR, just like MSFS so that is all on Windows only still.
I did stumble upon that repo before but never got around to it yet. IIRC @TeTeT runs the dedicated server in a (Linux) Docker container.
Let me know how that works out for you!
What base distro are you on btw?
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Fedora.
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Gah, I feel like I am falling behind as I haven’t bought my new Hardware yet.
Gotta get onto that Linux gaming hype train!
(I enjoy your posts a lot. They give me hope.)
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I’m still such a noob with Wine, it‘s just that Lutris & Steam make this dead easy.
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It’s the future - your average gamer isn’t going to mess around with the fine controls (except maybe some advanced users following some instructions in the Steam Community to make something run better), they just want it to work.
And Linux is going to make it work better! 
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Played a short stint of Stalker 2 yesterday, worked like a charm.
I also discovered that Wine doesn’t want to talk to my soundcard when it is configured as pro audio device. Maybe the reason is that Wine still talks to a pulseaudio driver that talks to pipewire instead of talking with pw directly. Needs further investigation.
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This may have been my own fault for using proton experimental with reforger experimental. I just found out that by default it is configured to use proton hotfix.
It works when I configure the card as stereo duplex, then start a game, then configure the card as pro audio again. This definitely looks like the wine pulse audio driver not passing some info correctly to pipewire. I’m still reading up on how to trace the actual problem, though.
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OT but I just noticed that Discourse has started supporting WebAuthn, which is pretty cool. I already use it to secure all my work related accounts and I love it, way less hassle and more secure than OTP etc.
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Ahahahaha I am such a frickin’ noob!
I have to shame myself here.
I got my brand new gaming PC yesterday and installed it today.
Everything worked out of the box, pretty nice. Installed all the necessary stuff.
Then Steam… and just a handful of games to test.
…and then I noticed that something was weird. Everything is kinda slow in games…
It is Kernel 6.8, which doesn’t support my graphics card! The 9700XT is running in some legacy compatibility mode. Still plenty enough for everything except gaming.
Ok, I thought. Just install a new Kernel.
Maximum I can install is 6.11…
I looked up what I need for that GPU to be supported… …it is 6.12 of course. ARGH Everything else works fine but now I have to install another distro.
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What did you use originally?
Mint 22.1
Checking the capability with CPU and GPU should have been my first step, I would have noticed it instantly.
I kinda assumed that you can install a Kernel 6.12+ but that was a wrong assumption.
Since I want a debian based distro (I know those best) and XFCE as the desktop I am now installing Xubuntu 25.04 which is very similar (I prefer Mint but I have installed Xubuntu on another PC as well) and comes with Kernel 6.14 which has the driver.
That probably won’t be the final distribution but I want to get something running NOW.
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