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I used to be a Linux gamer in the early 2000, at the time when companies like Loki, LGP and Tribsoft released games on Linux, and when Desura was so promising. Due to personal and professional reasons, I went away from Linux gaming for years, even if I have Steam installed on my Linux machine.
As I have now more spare time, I wanted to take a look on the games available on Steam and I am rather disappointed:
- I wanted to play the original Quake (released in 1996). I noticed this is only available on Windows while it was possible to play it on Linux decades ago. We can still use Steam Play or do some tricks with opensource clients like vkQuake but we have to buy the Windows game before
- Almost all the RuneSoft games once available on Linux through Desura are only available on Windows / MacOS on Steam. We can still use Steam Play but what a shame, this is like a rollback !
- Very few major games are available on Steam for Linux. There are plenty of minor games, especially for very young people, but not for gamers
I thought Linux was mature enough to have many good games available on it, but this is not the case...
Just buy the versions that's there and use Proton. If you buy and play on Linux, it counts as a Linux sale in Valve's stats and is reported as such to the dev/publisher of the game.
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I think the old games ported by now defunct companies like Loki or Tribsoft had their IP disappeared along the company, so you won't find them on Steam. But you can try on GoG as they republished a lot of old franchise
There's quite a lot of native linux games on steam (but sometimes, they may not be advertised as such. It's rather rare though). Almost all the Paradox catalog is available, for example. I played a lot to Battletech, Valheim and 7 days to die, recently.
I usually play only native games, but it may happen thzt I play with proton, especially for games I bought in bundles. All the programs derived from the wine compatibility layer, like proton, work well enough for a lot of games.
You can check on protondb how well a game works on linux.
https://www.gog.com/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/892970/Valheim/
https://www.paradoxinteractive.com/our-games/discover
https://www.protondb.com/
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Thank for all the information. I will try Proton, I never thought it existed. Will try Proton on the old Quake game.
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https://www.protondb.com/app/1173370
The games install but don't start at all. A pity !
Maybe this is because I use Steam (latest version) on OpenSUSE (not officially supported)
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ERROR: ld.so: object '/home/arnaud/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/gameoverlayrenderer.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32): ignored.
ERROR: ld.so: object '/home/arnaud/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_64/gameoverlayrenderer.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS64): ignored.
ERROR: ld.so: object '/home/arnaud/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/gameoverlayrenderer.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32): ignored.
ERROR: ld.so: object '/home/arnaud/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/gameoverlayrenderer.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32): ignored.
ERROR: ld.so: object '/home/arnaud/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/gameoverlayrenderer.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32): ignored.
pid 21971 != 21964, skipping destruction (fork without exec?)
GameAction [AppID 1241500, ActionID 4] : LaunchApp changed task to WaitingGameWindow with ""
GameAction [AppID 1241500, ActionID 4] : LaunchApp changed task to Completed with ""
Nothing works
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GameAction [AppID 521320, ActionID 8] : LaunchApp changed task to ProcessingInstallScript with ""
GameAction [AppID 521320, ActionID 8] : LaunchApp changed task to SiteLicenseSeatCheckout with ""
GameAction [AppID 521320, ActionID 8] : LaunchApp changed task to CreatingProcess with ""
GameAction [AppID 521320, ActionID 8] : LaunchApp waiting for user response to CreatingProcess ""
GameAction [AppID 521320, ActionID 8] : LaunchApp continues with user response "CreatingProcess"
/bin/sh\0-c\0/home/arnaud/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/reaper SteamLaunch AppId=521320 -- '/home/arnaud/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/common/SteamLinuxRuntime_soldier'/_v2-entry-point --verb=waitforexitandrun -- '/home/arnaud/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/common/Proton - Experimental'/proton waitforexitandrun '/home/arnaud/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/common/Final Warrior Quest/Game.exe'\0
Game process added : AppID 521320 "/home/arnaud/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/reaper SteamLaunch AppId=521320 -- '/home/arnaud/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/common/SteamLinuxRuntime_soldier'/_v2-entry-point --verb=waitforexitandrun -- '/home/arnaud/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/common/Proton - Experimental'/proton waitforexitandrun '/home/arnaud/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/common/Final Warrior Quest/Game.exe'", ProcID 32069, IP 0.0.0.0:0
chdir /home/arnaud/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/common/Final Warrior Quest
ERROR: ld.so: object '/home/arnaud/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/gameoverlayrenderer.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32): ignored.
ERROR: ld.so: object '/home/arnaud/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_64/gameoverlayrenderer.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS64): ignored.
ERROR: ld.so: object '/home/arnaud/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/gameoverlayrenderer.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32): ignored.
ERROR: ld.so: object '/home/arnaud/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/gameoverlayrenderer.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32): ignored.
ERROR: ld.so: object '/home/arnaud/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/gameoverlayrenderer.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32): ignored.
pid 32076 != 32073, skipping destruction (fork without exec?)
GameAction [AppID 521320, ActionID 8] : LaunchApp changed task to WaitingGameWindow with ""
GameAction [AppID 521320, ActionID 8] : LaunchApp changed task to Completed with ""
*** stack smashing detected ***: terminated
Game process removed: AppID 521320 "/home/arnaud/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/reaper SteamLaunch AppId=521320 -- '/home/arnaud/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/common/SteamLinuxRuntime_soldier'/_v2-entry-point --verb=waitforexitandrun -- '/home/arnaud/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/common/Proton - Experimental'/proton waitforexitandrun '/home/arnaud/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/common/Final Warrior Quest/Game.exe'", ProcID 32069
ThreadGetProcessExitCode: no such process 32231
ThreadGetProcessExitCode: no such process 32227
ThreadGetProcessExitCode: no such process 32226
ThreadGetProcessExitCode: no such process 32074
ThreadGetProcessExitCode: no such process 32073
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Very disappointing
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