Valve released Proton 10.0-3, the latest main stable version of the compatibility layer to run Windows games on Linux / SteamOS machines like Steam Deck. And now the Steam Machine and Steam Frame too of course whenever they arrive sometime in 2026.

The secret sauce that makes Linux gaming so amazing now, enabling tens of thousands of games to run well, just not those with certain types of anti-cheat which is a continuing problem. It’s been a long road to get here, with Proton 10 being in some form of Beta since April. But it’s here now!

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    5 hours ago

    Does anyone have this issue on WINE where mouse1 (left click) is pressed but WINE keeps holding on to the press and it unpresses after another click ?

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    23 hours ago

    Those games that “can’t” run on Linux due to AAA developers and publishers being assholes should be left to die on Windows, Linux is a worthy investment if you have the patience to learn how it works and these days there are options to make the switch easy even for those that are not tech savvy.

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      23 hours ago

      The rust head guy has his head up his ass about cheaters. Guy is military and thinks he’s at war with them or something and can’t realize that it’s just a game and that windows cheaters still exist plentifully.

      Guessing there are similar oddballs out there deciding “no soup for you” because we’re “only” 3% of the hardware survey…assuming you include all those integrated GPUs running windows as actual gaming systems.

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        22 hours ago

        The more I thought about that statement, the more goofy it seems to me. Linux players make up .01% of your player base, Windows is basically the rest, but all the cheaters are in that .01% and they’re enough to ruin the game? Like come on bro. The math ain’t mathing there. 🫩

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          12 hours ago

          The Rust guy is saying that almost all of the 0.1% were cheaters so just removing their access by flicking a switch in EAC is a simple fix to the cheaters there.

          They of course have cheaters on Windows too but that’s an ongoing problem and more complicated for them to fix.

          He’s just picking low hanging fruit to address his cheater problem on Rust instead of finding a proper solution that would probably involve a way too costly rebuild of key services.

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    23 hours ago

    Been using Fedora for quite a while and will be moving to Arch when we get a new PC :D Proton is literally the reason why we did move to Linux much easier too! So far only had a few games not functional on Linux? But honestly think its our laptop being shit more than anything lmao

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        3 hours ago

        mostly from curiosity and wanting to try things out. it’ll be when we get a new pc and we’ll mess around with different distros on our laptop later on

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      21 hours ago

      In case you don’t know, for any of those games that don’t work, check ProtonDB. Often some easy additions to run arguments get it going and people post them here

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        12 hours ago

        Will do, one of the games we very much want to play but for some reason can’t get running is Voices of the Void. Will have to look it up there

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          8 hours ago

          Set launch options WINE_DO_NOT_CREATE_DXGI_DEVICE_MANAGER=1 %command%

          If that doesn’t work let me know and I’ll dig further for ya.

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            3 hours ago

            Thank you! Sadly its still giving errors :( Proton Experimental “Couldn´t start: “VotV-Win64-Shipping.exe” VotV CreateProces() returned 2” 9.0-4 and lower “The following component(s) are required to run this program: Microsoft Visual C++ Runtime”

            Also looking online, it seems to be a pretty common issue and no one has found an answer as of yet (far as we’ve seen. granted were not good at this stuff/havent looked for an answer for a few months now lol)

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              3 hours ago

              Can you link the game? I caught the flu and so have a bit of spare time to debug. Just want to make sure I’m not looking at the wrong game

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                3 hours ago

                sure, https://mrdrnose.itch.io/votv OS: Fedora 42 Linux

                also note, we tried re-unzipping with a different zip manager since people are saying the zip manager could be at fault. and now its not launching / giving any error at all 😅

                Edit: oh no!! hope you feel better too! We also got a cold / ear infection ouselves so we totally feel u aaa