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Any experience running it on Linux? Using Wine?

It runs on Linux natively. Works well for me (installed via Steam).

Same goes for all the extensions. The Linux version is really solid.

The performance is a fraction of that on Windows though, from my experience.

Might this be a memory issue? I run it on Xubuntu and noticed it sometimes uses all my 8GB RAM so the PC starts swapping.

It loves RAM (and probably RAM speed), but not necessarily in a bad way. Jumping to 16gb (2x8gb) from 8gb (1x8gb) on the laptop I first played it on was a big jump in performance even with a GT740.

Yeah, C:S will gobble RAM like there's no tomorrow, especially if you've got a lot of mods installed.

Not my experience. Performance is pretty equal for me, always a bit laggy.

Yep, works perfectly on Archlinux through Steam for me as well

I tried installing it on Ubuntu MATE, GPD Pocket 2, with whatever the display-scaling default is for this distro. There is some stupid bug where I can't get past the privacy-policy adhesion agreement because it is rendered mostly off screen and doesn't recognize keyboard input. Classic Linux desktop paper-cut that I'm sure I could resolve with 15-240 minutes of web research.

Other than that, I assume the Linux version is fine.

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