Hello @AtFreezingPoint, this comes down to who provides the support for a game title. If a game developer chooses to directly support a platform (not limited to the Linux user base), then the direct support from the game developers for their own game should take priority. Forcing a compatibility tool should in principle be the exception here, not the norm.
Having written that, my personal opinion doesn't invalidate your request, but I don't expect this to be implemented in the near future.
Hello @AtFreezingPoint, this comes down to who provides the support for a game title. If a game developer chooses to directly support a platform (not limited to the Linux user base), then the direct support from the game developers for their own game should take priority. Forcing a compatibility tool should in principle be the exception here, not the norm.
Having written that, my personal opinion doesn't invalidate your request, but I don't expect this to be implemented in the near future.
:wave:, i don't deny what you said on support but giving the option for people that just want to do so (run the software as if on a platform that they believe is supported much better than the one they might be on) is surely not bad now, is it? Also i believe it should be pretty easy as everything that's necessary to provide the said choice is already pretty much there.
This tale is as old as Proton, and it's one me and many others are sick of hearing. "One Linux binary is bad, so all Linux binaries must be bad. Why do we ever need Linux binaries when we have Proton anyways?" This is a massive spit in the face to the developers who put care into making their Linux binaries instead of just haphazardly tossing them over the wall, calling it a day, and never thinking of Linux support ever again.
Don't insult the people who treat our platform with the care that it deserves.
I would say "run all windows games with compatibility option by default"
since I will never use such an unsafe patchwork, some call windows
"operating" system on my custom laptop.
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Generally Windows versions of games are more optimized ( at least in my
experience, see Mad Max for example that game has only an older version for
Linux ) and i believe that having an option that'd run games that have
Windows versions with compatibility layers by default would be appreciated
with a few people within the community that think the same, though it
should ofc be manually overridable.—
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Having a global option to force all games to use the Windows version can be useful for dual booting when the two systems use the same Steam library.
When booting into Linux, Steam will update all games which have a Linux version.
The reverse happens when booting into Windows: Steam updates the Linux games to their Windows version.
Generally Windows versions of games are more optimized ( at least in my experience, see Mad Max for example that game has only an older version for Linux ) and i believe that having an option that'd run games that have Windows versions with compatibility layers by default would be appreciated with a few people within the community that think the same, though it should ofc be manually overridable.