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My daily driver is Ubuntu 20.04, and I stopped dual booting with Windows back in December 2019, which up to that point had been the way I did all of my gaming.

I haven't looked back since.

Sure, there have been some games that haven't worked. Some of those just needed some tweaking, and for some I just waited a bit until Proton caught up. For the rest that still don't work, I am content with just shelving until such time that they work.

I have been consistently surprised at what games actually work through Proton. For instance I played Titanfall 2 & Battlefield 1 without any issues this year. On Linux.

I probably spend around 200$ each year on video games, and this initiative by Valve will be the sole reason I will continue to do so (and not having to run a Windows instance in my home).

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What if you want to install games from other stores, like Epic, Twitch, or GoG? Despite never buying any games there, I have a bunch that they gave out for free.

If it's not on Steam, you'll have to use Lutris. It's a slightly better experience than having all those stores on Windows, but not as simple as Steam.

There's a program called Lutris [0] that will handle GoG, Heroic will handle Epic [1]. Not sure about Twitch games, though, as I'm unfamiliar with their offering. If you mean Itch.io then Lutris handles that too.

[0] https://lutris.net

[1] https://github.com/Heroic-Games-Launcher/HeroicGamesLauncher

No, I mean Twitch. They offer free games via Amazon Prime: https://gaming.amazon.com/

Ah I see, I hadn't heard of those. Thanks.

Most of those games are redeemed through other clients like Origin or Epic. There are some games only available through the amazon gaming app, but they're mostly small indie titles.

> they're mostly small indie titles

I like small indie titles.

I don't have Epic or Twitch accounts, but Gog works excellently -- there are several alternative clients (e.g. lutris) that let you install Windows games into a proton prefix through GOG with a nice gui. Plenty of GOG games are actually linux-native -- and they "just work" quite well, amazingly including lib / .so constraints -- they have a standard script that does quite a lot to fix this. If you don't want a nice gui, there are a ton of CLI downloaders that "just work" and save you clicking buttons a lot.

GOG Galaxy for linux is "in progress" and has been for ~7 years. Alas despite being the most-requested item by far in their feature-request tracker, I think it's unlikely to happen soon. Galaxy itself works well inside a proton / wine environment, and will auto-update Windows games.

Gaming on linux is great!

I don't understand what point you are trying to make. Why should I care about storefronts that I can not use?

If and when they go about having Linux support, only then would they become relevant to me.

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Sorry, misread your message. I am not sure how you'd go about running games from those stores, or if that is even possible as I only use Steam.

Epic games come to Steam when they leave Epic Access, I had no idea Twitch could install games, and the games they'd support are likely the kind of trash I'm glad is being filtered out from other stores, and GoG is DRM free and therefore easily downloaded. Their client sucks anyway.

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