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[-] [email protected] 52 points 2 weeks ago

I'll wait for Proton++ or Proton#

[-] [email protected] 17 points 2 weeks ago

What about JProton or Proton on Rails?

[-] [email protected] 14 points 2 weeks ago

Someone is already preparing an angry comment on how it should be written in Rust instead.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

Probably the person who down voted me

[-] [email protected] 19 points 2 weeks ago

I don’t like the interface tbh. I much rather use ProtonUp-QT for this purpose.

At least in my experience proton plus is restricted in what you can and can’t do.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Agreed, it feels a lot like Bottles and I am not really a fan of it's interface either personally.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

I haven't checked, but can protonup QT manage the vk3d and dxvk versions too?

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

Not sure. I rarely use it as is. I haven’t done anything in depth. I have only pulled it up on rare occasions I need specific versions.

Like 98% of my library is just install and play with default steam hotfix version.

[-] [email protected] 16 points 2 weeks ago

I'm so lost here...

Is it not already DEAD simple?

[-] [email protected] 18 points 2 weeks ago

Not super so if you wanna mess around with GE-Proton and stuff. Personally I prefer ProtonUp-Qt though. It's a terrible name, but way less flashy, which it super doesn't need to be.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago

I've used both and found ProtonPlus to be better for my needs. It has way more proton and wine versions available. They also added the feature for steam games to select their proton version from the client as well.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

You can select the proton version for steam games in ProtonUp-Qt as well :)

[-] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago

You can select the proton version for steam games in steam.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago

Yea, for sure you can, but you have to go into each games settings one-by-one. In ProtonUp-Qt (seriously, terrible name lol) it's a list with a dropdown box next to each, the steam deck compatibility rating, and the ProtonDB rating that you can click to go straight to the page for it.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

You can change the global proton setting in steam.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

Yes, and? I only switch to GE-Proton on games that need it, so I leave that setting on vanilla Proton (ie unset).

[-] [email protected] -3 points 2 weeks ago

Talking in fricking circles over here.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

I mean,,, you're the one that said something super obvious to start with?

[-] [email protected] -1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

You said, you can select the options outside of steam smilieface.

So I mentioned you can just use steam to select it.

You replied, but then you have to change it for each game.

To which I said, you can also change it globally.

And then you said you want to change it individually.

So i have no idea what this conversations point is lol

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

That first message wasn't in reply to you though, and wasn't saying you couldn't in Steam:

I've used both and found ProtonPlus to be better for my needs. It has way more proton and wine versions available. They also added the feature for steam games to select their proton version from the client as well.

I was merely letting them know that ProtonUp-Qt can also do that now, as well as ProtonPlus?

[-] [email protected] -2 points 2 weeks ago

No kidding your reply to someone else wasn't a reply to me...

[-] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

What crawled up your butt and died? Yeesh.

[-] [email protected] -3 points 2 weeks ago

Nothing. I was laughing earlier. You're just talking in circles and nonsense. It's fine.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

They're not though.

In Steam, you have to open the settings for each game individually to set it.

In ProtonUp-Qt, you get a list of all of the games installed with their proton DB rating in one column and a drop down to select the compatibility layer in another. So you can easily set several games almost at once, without having to set it globally.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

TBH, I just use a GTK4 programme whenever I have the choice, so for me Proton+ was natural

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

This is akin to ProtonUp, with more compat forks available to download within the GUI.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

Based on the description elsewhere in the comments, they don't sound very similar. ProtonPlus is just a download tool that lets you see and download or delete updates for all the various versions of Proton, so you don't have to visit a bunch of different Githubs. It doesn't let you see or change which version each game is using, which it sounds like ProtonUp does.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I'm not sure how ProtonUp works with native games, installed outside of Steam or Heroic for instance, but it certainly doesn't allow for per-game Proton version changes with Steam games.
EDIT: I was wrong, there's a separate list I wasn't aware of where you can change per-game versions. You can do the same thing in ProtonPlus FWIW.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

Where do you find that screen in ProtonPlus? I've never seen it. I wonder if I'm on an old version.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

Initially thought this was about the Proton Foundation product before I realised which community I was in

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

I just install ProtonGE from AUR and then it is a magic option in Steam. Idk why we need whole programs for this

[-] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I just install ProtonGE from AUR and then it is a magic option in Steam. Idk why we need whole programs for this

It’s not that easy for everyone, Debian users have to do it manually or through a third party application like ProtonUp-Qt.

[-] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago
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