I’m thinking of installing Linux (think I’m going to use Nobara) on my new budget gaming PC, and my biggest worry is video games compatibility. I have most of my games on Steam and Epic. Some on GOG, and some on Itch. I know a bit about steam compatibility, but not much about the rest. Is this something I need to worry about, or should it just work?
Edit: for anyone that finds this, sounds like the Heroic Launcher is the way to go. Thanks everyone!
Edit 2: I’ve used Heroic Launcher and Steam + Proton for a few days now, works great! I’d recommend it to anyone with a similar question.
Hey your title has unescaped html in. I’m guessing you’re using sync?
This was a bug in this last release when editing titles. It’s fixed for the next release but I thought I’d give you a heads up.
You are very correct. Nice to hear it’s been fixed, thanks!
You can install Heroic Games launcher, which is an alternative Epic + GOG front-end (it also works on Windows and is apparently better than the real thing). You can use it to manage the compatibility layers similarly to Steam, but in my experience its function is on a game-by-game basis
As another commenter has said, go through ProtonDB and check all the games you can’t live without
You can check https://www.protondb.com/, but games by Epic will generally have a bad time
That title only keeps getting better over time.
I’ve had good experiences launching games from Epic on the Heroic Games Launcher. Most games that don’t have extreme anti-cheats should just work. If compatibility is an issue, you can install Linux as a dual-boot option, so you could switch to Windows for certain games.
