On: Super Tux Kart – Linux racing game

[santoshalper]

Linux Gaming is the equivalent of Christian Rock.

[Shared404 → santoshalper]

Check out Proton. Linux can run almost any windows game at this point.

On the subject of Christian Rock, check out Skillet.

[lmedinas → Shared404]

It can run some games but it still has issues with multiplayer games mainly due to anti-cheating.

Sadly Vulkan has not really took off as being a major multi platform graphics API which would be the right approach to bring more games to Linux.

[monadic2 → lmedinas]

True, but that's just a small subset of even PC gaming.

[dependenttypes → Shared404]

I think you mean wine.

Honestly though, a lot of games are now native for linux. There are very few games that I need wine for nowadays (and there is no game that I want but can't play)

[Shared404 → dependenttypes]

Yes, wine underlies proton, but Proton makes it accessible for those who don't have the time/desire to debug games individually.

Proton "Just Works(tm)", whereas vanilla Wine takes setup.

> Honestly though, a lot of games are now native for linux. There are very few games that I need wine for nowadays (and there is no game that I want but can't play)

I have to agree here. Almost every game I play can run natively.

[dependenttypes → Shared404]

Isn't Proton Steam-only? Plus there are quite a few other wine front-ends (playonlinux and lutris come to mind).

Personally I had better luck fiddling with Wine than with Proton. (and by fiddling I mean "checking a few dlls in winetricks")

[Shared404 → dependenttypes]

I don't remember for sure. It is it's own open source project however. I do use lutris as well, but mostly for emulators.

> Personally I had better luck fiddling with Wine than with Proton. (and by fiddling I mean "checking a few dlls in winetricks")

To each their own. Almost all of my Window's only games I have in my steam library and I've just been able to click install and play, so I haven't looked in depth at any of the other options yet.

[ISL → santoshalper]

This seems like a challenge to a developer to make the death-metal of open-source games.

If it were written, would it make it into the major distros? :).

Are there any titles that would meet that definition written in Scumm?

[Shared404 → ISL]

> to make the death-metal of open-source games.

The original DOOM is open source, I think.

Update: Found it! It's here, but it's the engine only:

https://github.com/id-Software/DOOM

[chungy → Shared404]

Unfortunately they only pushed the non-open source licensed one. It was relicensed as GPLv2 a couple years later.

https://github.com/Doom-Utils/historic-ports/tree/linuxdoom

[Andrex → santoshalper]

With Unreal becoming verboten on macOS, and Google working with Valve directly on Steam + Linux for Chrome OS...

What does that make Mac Gaming? Insane Clown Posse? Brokencyde?

[gspr → santoshalper]

No. https://store.steampowered.com/linux